The Gamer's Bill of Rights was written by Brad Wardell of Stardock - the company that sold out their customer base by selling Impulse to Gamestop, which implemented... well, pretty much everything the GBoR stood up against. Hypocrite.

Talking with people from there, I'm led to believe Canada's healthcare is not much better than America's. I rather like New Zealand's, until our government sells out our healthcare system to the USA in the TPPA.

What do you mean "e.g. Microsoft"... Skype IS Microsoft. Again.

I'm surprised Slashdot isn't on France's side for this alone.

Strange. The linked page shows that the United States ratified it in 1950. So yes, it is a party to the treaty.

It stays on HTTPS if you're a subscriber. It redirects users who cost them money back to HTTP so they don't have to spend so many CPU cycles.

New Zealand does not have a constitution. The violation is of the Bill of Rights Act.

No, it means "not charged per use". You can be charged an upfront fee for a royalty-free license.

That's still completely irrelevant. GP (GGP now) was making a baseless claim that licensing revenue is the only thing propping up Windows Phone (which for what it's worth probably isn't even in EDD any more, since Windows Phone is actually literally Windows 8 and probably accounted for in WD now) - when the annual (quarterly?) reports quite clearly show where all the money actually comes from (deferred/manipulated or not).

Especially since I'm pretty sure they deliberately defer the shit out of every number to make as much of an on-paper loss as possible (it may be called Hollywood accounting, but it's not specific to LA).

Because they are forbidden to issue a certificate with a greater validity than 39 months in accordance with the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements for Publicly Trusted Certificates (warning: PDF). If they were to violate this, they'd have GTE's root certificate de-listed by Apple, Google, Mozilla, KDE, Opera, Blackberry and ... um ... Microsoft. Which would invalidate their subordinate certificate.

Apple. iCloud uses Azure Storage for (some) document storage.

Except that companies like Microsoft and Google register domains through "Enterprise" registrars like MarkMonitor, who charge upwards of a few hundred (possibly even thousand) dollars per year for their service - which supposedly includes "not letting the fucking things expire" and "making sure other people don't register our damn marks".

Microsoft actually has even less excuse in this instance, believe it or not - Microsoft's certificate vendor is itself. All MS certificates are chained up to a Microsoft subordinate CA (with a GTE root). So it wasn't a failure to pay for a certificate since they don't actually pay for them - it was just someone not bothering to open the certificates MMC and click "Renew Certificate". Hell, it's probably even AD integrated so there's no need to fill in any fields.

IE10 has a spell checker now. They're only 5 years late, but they got there.

Yeah, but who is? AWS has more outages than I care to remember, Rackspace has had it's share of outages, Google goes down like once a month, even Apple can't keep a service up - and that's pretty much all the big players counted out.

It also supports Joliet/CDFS.

But if does support Installable File System drivers, which could easily ship on the install CD - which is neither FAT nor NTFS either.

You do realise their annual reports are broken down into a little more detail than that right? You can see plain as day exactly how much Xbox brings in compared to Windows Phone (which since it's just Windows 8 is probably attributed to the Windows Division now) and how much licensing brings in. Your reminder falls flat on it's face upon reflection of that point.