You converted her login to a Microsoft account and had no idea you were doing it? What the hell?

We're assuming they wouldn't do this to someone they sold boxes or keys to directly if they dared to sell for even a dollar less than MSRP. "Going out of business and unloading inventory? You're making our product look like shit doing that! All keys sold to you in the last 6 months invalidated!" "Clearance sale??? Keys go POOF!"

Just because the other US based cloud providers aren't advertising that fact it doesn't mean they wouldn't give the US government the same access.

1) Buy companies that felt they needed to sell to you to survive
2) Get out of all your other businesses to focus on the business of the companies you bought
3) ???
4) Collapse!

From the article:

"Given any reasonable construction of the words in his postings, those statements do not constitute a 'true threat,' and they are therefore protected speech under the First Amendment," the majority wrote in a 2-1 decision.

So no, Congress cannot simply write a new law to get around that in the 9th Circuit (~20% of the population) or any Circuit that is likely to rule the same way. The observation that they didn't even charge him under a law that criminalized what he said (and if it did, it would be unconstitutional) was essentially just icing on the cake.

The compiler doesn't affect instances where you've stored pointers in a data type that didn't grow to 64-bit. That shouldn't be the case since Firefox builds and runs under 64-bit Windows already but it's a potential problem.

Anything more recent than a Galaxy S should have similar or better performance when running 2.3. The Nexus S has the same CPU core and GPU as the rest of the Galaxy S devices.

I would wonder whether the whole case would have gone differently if he hadn't taken partial credit for this guy getting fired. Not a good thing when you're about to get sued for maliciously interfering with the guy's job.

Pretty sure the ITU defines the revision of CDMA that Verizon and other carriers use as 3G.

They didn't discontinue the iPhone 3G until June 7, 2010. Inventories don't often magically evaporate either so who knows when the iPhone 3G was no longer for sale by Apple's partners. They should do the right thing and do a point release of whatever iOS will run on the 3G containing just the security fixes.

If they never changed the benchmark to prevent the dead code removal (which is a valid optimization) in IE9 from kicking in, it's probably not a very good benchmark to compare Chrome with IE9.