And guess how people end up remembering these passwords. Post-it notes within the vicinity of the PC seems to be a favourite.

Enforcing people to change passwords regularly seems to have many drawbacks. I really don't understand the point.

Umm, no it isn't. Crazy by Gnarles Barkley was the first song to reach number one in the UK on downloads alone. This was the first song to be the Christmas number 1 on downloads alone.

"Gates knows software patents are bad for the industry"

Don't you mean "Gates knew software patents were bad for the industry".

Come on, this quote is 18 years old, peoples opinions change!

That's a kick ass router, I wish my router would get a job and buy more computers.

How can a complaint be filed with ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF WHATSOEVER. TFA is little more than opinion on what might have happened.

OK so you have some ability to see into the future in as much as no search engine will ever come along that is ever better than Google.

Get off your high horse. Yes I agree that Microsoft's approach is wrong in that they often try to influence peoples opinion and choice of products. I for one despise them for this and try to avoid their software like the plague. Hpever I am also not so blinkered that I can never see a day where Google does not rule the world (in search engine terms at least).

Don't say you will never switch from Google, an innovative company could pop up tomorrow that shows us a brand new way to index information on the web that is much more efficient and all of a sudden people like you will be slagging of Google and classing them as the new Microsoft because you have a new idolised company. I'm not a fan of Microsoft but possibly the only thing I dislike more is the people who hate them for the sake of hating them, please at least give us a good argument and not a load of crap that makes no sense.

Maybe on the newest Blackberry's that is true but certainly not on my Blackberry 8320. I have to use the bcharge app on Linux or whatever the software is that comes with windows in order to charge mine.

If only swine flu hadn't taken over from bird flu we'd have an abundant supply of the feathers as well.

This is one way the game industry have attempted to over come piracy I think but to a slightly larger extent and I think we will see more and more of it.

Look at games like Guitar Hero, excellent, fun games that could quite easily be pirated but what is the point of having the game without the nice guitar to play it with. Same goes for rock band etc. More bespoke controllers and extras that make the game worth playing and consumers are quite happy to pay through the nose for it and not bother trying to pirate it.

Maybe as you said, something similar could be done by the music industry to provide an extra incentive to get out there and buy the cd's as opposed to pirating, or even downloading the mp3's legally.

So it's impossible to say that something isn't possible?

Of course, because pinging ::1 is loads more difficult than pinging 127.1 .....

Oh look, a compnay starts doing well for itself and all of a sudden it is tarred with the same brush as other large corporations, bring them down, just be happy that at least it is a company with 'relatively' good products and business ethics, in case you haven't noticed, when you start a business like google, you have a tendancy to make money, this does not mean it is evil!