Doesn't this kind of "DRM" question also apply to Google's apps? Like you know, Google C&Ding CyanogenMod for including their apps.

Sorry, but phone screen is way too small for gaming. It's okayish in a bus or so, but there's no way I would consider it fun time to take my phone to sofa or bed to play some games. And on top of that, laptop isn't really ideal for that either. I have a great gaming laptop, but it just doesn't allow relaxing like that on sofa or bed, while tablets do. And quite frankly, I would like to do something else than just read too. On top of that, I spend quite much time sitting down at the pool and having a few beers. Tablet would give me ideal entertainment for that. There's no way I'm going to take my laptop there, though.

Are Ubuntu and Mac OSX "trash OSes" too because they have app stores?

Besides, Vista was a good OS, but it changed the Windows fundamentals so much that many apps broke. But to advance, improve security and to use better driver model Microsoft had to do it at some point. There was nothing wrong with Vista but the old badly designed programs that stopped working with it when MS had to take the step forward.

Windows 7: 2009 Windows Vista: 2006 Seems they've taken three years release cycle, which is a really long time compared to Linux distros and Mac OS X. It's better than the time after XP anyway, which really started to feel like an outdated OS, by security standards and features too.

I don't think Microsoft is that late for tablets. Quite frankly, I think the current Android tablets still aren't worth using. That leaves you with iPad, so there's definitely some market open for tablets and what Microsoft has shown about Windows 8 for tablets it looks quite nice. On top of that you get the support for Windows apps, which is a huge deal.

But even on normal computer side, Windows 8 seems to improve many things over 7, which already is really good OS.

Not only that, but entertainment is US most profitable industry, and it's huge export to other countries too. So not only gaming industry (and movies and music industry for that matter) create jobs, they bring in lots of money to US. All immaterial too. If someone deserves tax breaks, it's those industries as they bring so much value to the US (even if you disagree with some of their business practices)

Well North Korea isn't going to start anything.

You can see the Norway shootings for example. The guy didn't commit suicide in the end, but killed ~90 people and he might just as well have suicided himself after that. It wasn't related to religion in any way, it was politics - right vs. left, and more capitalism ideas against socialism. He took it to extremes, but religion wasn't part of that. I suspect this also was much more about politics than anything religion related.

That's the exact reason why North Korea has extensive network of underground tunnels and bases. US can't really track those. It's also the reason why North Korea and Burma are (supposedly) trying to build nuclear weapons underground in the jungles. The best thing is, US can't really do anything without provoking Chinese.

So well played. I don't think the purpose was ever to cause destruction - it was to provoke US to make themselves look like asses. Just like you do when you want to get back to big stupid bullies who just use power.

The US way to write dates is stupid, indeed. Not that European is that much better either. Everyone should just use time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, for example 2011-09-11 15:30. It makes the most sense, and drops the stupid am/pm stuff too.

It doesn't even need to be some kind of hacking. Most people use the same password for all services. It just needs one of those services with an abusive admin, or break-in into those, to get lots of passwords. Since iTunes is so popular, it should be easy to find lots of same user account information there. Also don't forget that there's also been numerous occasions when someone has leaked email, username and password lists to the internet as a result of some hack.

According to what country's laws? Nowhere in the summary it says they're talking about US.

No, Verisign is the operator of both .com and .net TLD's. All registrars pay to Verisign and ICANN for .com and .net domains.

There's quite large annual fees on top of that, though. And he won't get those prices unless he is actually registered registrar directly at ICANN. If he's just reselling, then it's close to the actual prices (at least $6-7 per domain).