No, because in other countries, what they did is blatantly illegal.

Actually, you're budgeting less - because Creative Cloud is cheaper than paying for a CS upgrade annually.

In all fairness, Adobe's "Creative Cloud" offering is actually more cost-effective than paying for Creative Suite was. At about $1000 for Photoshop Extended alone, plus $200 for Lightroom, total $1200. Assume you upgrade once every 3 years, that's $400 a year. Compare that to $10 a month for Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC - that's $120 a year. You can see the benefits.

They eventually revealed the reason they only show your content to a subset of your followers:

So they could charge you to reach more of them. Seriously. You can pay to "promote" your posts, and all that does is increase the reach within the people that have explicitly indicated interest in your content.

That's not informed consent as it would be deemed by any research institution or court of law. Informed consent requires a discussion with the subject on the nature of the research, its purpose, the manner in which data will be collected and used, and an explicit agreement from the user. What Facebook thinks it has is implied consent - which they frankly don't have either.

This study is just plain unlawful.

No it's not silly to think that. It is, however, silly to assume that.

That's true enough. Unfortunately I can't find any conclusive statement anywhere, so it would have to be tested to tell for sure. Side note, the Xbox One controller drivers make any game that supports an Xbox 360 controller work with an Xbox One controller.

No, that's a bad idea. Having a single rendering engine used by all browsers creates a monoculture, and monocultures are bad because they create behemoths like Microsoft. Trident needs to stick to the standards, and that's what they're doing. From what I've seen, any website that looks fine on Chrome or Firefox also looks fine on the latest versions of Trident.

No, because all they're doing is supporting the W3C GamePad API (which the IE status page at http://status.modern.ie/gamepa... says is available in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera already) which supports all gamepads, including the Xbox controller (with Xbox controller drivers, which for the Xbox One controller Microsoft has officially released).

What's particularly amusing is that probably one of the largest contributions to modern web application development - XMLHTTP - came out of, of all places, the Microsoft Exchange team.

Chrome does the same thing. I suspect it is for technical reasons.

Windows Home Server is even more aggressive at telling you not to actually use it as a desktop.

No. If you've got a good long-standing relationship with a company, they'll often loan, give or sell you unreleased hardware to get a feel for how it works and (hopefully) place a large order. We have some HP ElitePads at work with "Property of Hewlett-Packard Company", "Please return to HP Dallas, TX" and "Prototype - Not FCC approved" on them just because they wanted us to try them out and maybe get some when they were released.

He said without root.

Oh, so you've seen how the system works then? I can almost guarantee that it backhauls the traffic over a separate VLAN or something using non-routable address space until it hits a CGNAT router at their CO.