I agree with you. I'd prefer there be some effort to voting, so those who care are the ones who make a difference. "Hai 4chan guyz, let's all show how powerful anon is and let's all vote xxxxxxxxxxxxx"

So rather than politically engaged voters who care, travelling their voting station to cast a ballot, we can now encourage everyone to click vote, based on who has the best style, a trustworthy face and catchy slogans! Like. Comment. Vote.

It's ironic that people demand cheap, disposable $499 laptops yet complain that they're filled with junk. When Google pays a manufacturer $1 per every 3000 searches for setting Google as the default search engine, or Yahoo a similar deal, you're going to find such junk on PC's to help offset the cost of providing a low cost PC. It's also unfortunate that Microsoft changed their OEM distribution method of Microsoft Office, since 2007, so every manufacturer has to preload it, bloating the size of the images and other areas.

As someone who espoused the virtues of protecting your children online with the proper tools and configuring them, without barring them from using the computer, I found that Windows Vista made a huge leap forward in terms of integrating online safety with an operating system. Sadly, with Windows 7, Microsoft removed this integration from the OS, removed some abilities and made it a downloadable aspect of Windows Live Essentials while downgrading it's functionality.

With a properly configured Windows Vista machine, I could confidently allow an 8 year old child to browse the internet unmonitored as there was no way they could see anything they weren't supposed to, even accidentally. The Windows 7 downloadable Family Safety has many issues which has sadly removed my confidence in the product.

I'm genuinely interested to hear how a real competitive market can't be in place; or rather, what's stopping competition from existing? Are there real barriers or simply a great deal of complaining by the smaller ISP's?

Originally, Stargate was a show with open ended possibilities. You had doorways to an *unlimited* number of worlds and the possibility of occasionally peppering a season with the sci-fi wet dream of temporal malfunctions. Create a team of four people with unique personalities that most viewers could relate to, toss in some humour and we had an enjoyable, adventurous romp through space that started and ended with practically every episode. How can you go wrong!? How can you not have 10 seasons of fun!?

Fast forward a few years and we take that formula, add in an overarching story line with an evil warring race, maybe a few extra characters to the team and, while it's not the same, it's still pretty damned good.

Fast forward a few more years and we take the mythos, remove the humour, and apply what we'd seen in the successful Battlestar Galactica franchise minus the deadly yet cool robots, and we have... a cancellation.

It seemed as though we were moving in a decent direction at the end of the most recent season, where they were finally gaining control of the ship and moving in a Star Trek Voyager direction but maybe it's too little, too late. Where's the sci-fi? Where's the space exploration? They're in deep space for crying out loud, why aren't they encountering bizarre worlds with amazing effects, aliens with odd customs and why are they continually engaging in human drama. How many episodes of Rush friction do we have to deal with?

As a solutions provider, I experience a definite distinction between "business users" and "home users" as different markets have different requirements and expectations of their smart 'phone.' Consider an enthusiast 16 year old kid who thinks he knows it all and enjoys wasting time hacking around with his android and doesn't care that it may occasionally bug up whereas a corporate user or small business owner wants his emails and he wants them now, with a reliable experience that never fails. The latter market typically cares less about playing music, watching shows or taking pictures of lolfriends.

My BlackBerry Bold 9700 does not have alleged signal issues and has been extremely reliable. I do not accept his deflection of blame, especially after 1 out of 1 friends I'd asked could reproduce the iPhone 4 issue. So far, 100% of the people I know with an iPhone 4 are experiencing the issue.

If the Chinese government believes that foreign governments are monitoring the blogs or online activities of their active duty military personnel, perhaps they're engaging in this behaviour to monitor the military activities of other governments?

TFA is wrong, in talking about a group called "Anonymous." Gullible people who aren't so up on things need to stop giving this meme credibility.

Reading some of the comments here, it seems as though there's a bias against PowerPoint for some ridiculous reasons. While I have read some reasons that were legitimate personal differences a person has in how they learn, I wonder if people would complain less and be more willing to learn if OpenOffice Impress were used instead of PowerPoint?

Thank you. I'd posted the same thing in another forum that brought this up yesterday. "The last thing this country needs is more uninformed citizens being able to easily and quickly click vote. Online voting isn't going to decrease political apathy."

You've accurately summarized my opinion on the matter and I'd mod you up if I had the points (but I don't think you'll need them :) Well said.

Your 14 year old, WoW uber-player quip is lost on me as I don't play the game. I just work with a pile of people that complain their accounts were circumvented, then affirm they recently installed some new mod or addon around the same time. Maybe it's the installer, I don't know. I read the Blizzard notes from TFA and it seemed reasonable that Blizzard asserting control might prevent against whatever it is that's causing all of these accounts to get hijacked, or have all their items dumped.

Fail, indeed. And info stealer keygens don't exist?