...I guess.

I hate phone calls. Hate voice mails almost as much. When I'm working, the verbal part of my brain goes to sleep, and it's a pain in the ass to have to wake it up. Totally breaks my chain of thought. Give me an email any day.

...and live to tell the tale.

....and I want it painted black.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna check out the PS4. Didn't they already say they wouldn't require constant connectivity ?

Um, isn't a share a percentage? So "getting out of a double digit share" would either mean dropping to a single digit (less than 10%) or taking the whole market ( 100%.) Surely MS didn't expect the latter...

Is there a process by which a state can be EXPELLED from the union?

It'd be nice to think this would boost use of OpenOffice and/or Libre Office, but probably not.

A world (not planet) destroying trap. It's bait (cheap energy) is far, far too sweet to be resisted. Our doom is named: Coal.

I couldn't quite tell from reading ...

The availability of competing providers varies by market. There are parts of the US with NO broadband available at all, and others where there is only one carrier. Also, the whole issue here seems to be that the "terms" he accepted withheld relevant information - and that IS grounds for legal appeal.

...that Kaspersky's PLANS for an exploit-proof OS leave experts skeptical. Or maybe, his "ambitions" or even "promises". At the moment, there's no actual OS to be skeptical of.

He's free to serve in Congress, but it's pretty clear that he doesn't belong on a science committee.

After all, they've just boasted of their DDoS attacks against US firms - I say let's help them with their "firewall" (only we'll make sure their government is cut off as well.)

It's got to be strictly enforced - see the lesson of the Passenger Pigeon. Somehow the birds didn't get the memo that they were in high demand - and they failed to increase production...