My company would be named "Bad Service Company" and give shitty service and food or other products. Then if somebody writes a review then I can sue them and get my money =)
So new business model has been found in France! Does it spread to other countries too?

How about credit card? If you buy from Ebay or from China are they then allowed to store credit card information, email address and home address?
Question is - what is personal information? I can understand SSN to be personal. But how about your birth date, sex (gay?), tracking cookies?

And famous Russian search engine is just building a data center outside from Russia...

Hi

Good you found Linux and you are trying it.

Some rules what you should know about different Operating Systems - examples about Linux here:
- Linux does not need firewall. Unless you are protecting other computers.
- Firewall is not needed unless you have ports open (listening) what you can not close. On Linux _you_manage_your_computer_ and you can close programs which are listening and you don't like.
- If you have any services you want to protect being accessed from bad/wrong hosts... you have options like tcpwrapper.
So check your ports by running command: sudo lsof -i -Pn
It shows you currently open connections AND ports which are ready to receive traffic from Internet.

If you see ports what you don't want to be listening then identify it and stop. Like this:
smbd 7114 root 26u IPv6 101652 0t0 TCP *:445 (LISTEN)
So you have smbd (Samba) listening TCP port 445, it has PID number 7114 ("sudo kill 7114" to kill it) and it is running as root level.

So - you don't need firewall. Just knowledge how to close unneeded services/programs.

Br, Henri

Over 20 years ago we were using LOGO programming language. It is visual where you see "turtle" who you command to move, turn left or right and so on.
So that's visual and even children understand simple commands: go forward, turn left, pen down, go forward, turn left, go forward, pen up ...
Also even more visual if you can have physical robot with a pen control. Children can see robot crawling on floor as you program. Control pen and even change color.
Later they can learn loops and other more complex things. See Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
There are also links for teaching programming languages for children.

If somebody can do it cheaper then it's better for consumers.
But competing against free? Just same as paid OS versus free OS.
Your laptop's free OS is also good even you get some trial(crap)ware what you should pay later.
WIth free internet you could get some ads. Or would you pay to get it ad-free?

Here is one good example from Nordic country where University, City and local companies can make it free for all http://www.panoulu.net/

You may already heard about Nokia's Linux based Maemo OS? Was it included into Symbian or was it forgot completly?
I bet it will beat iPhone.

There are already hundreds of free applications in www.maemo.org for older Nokia internet tablets. And there are no restrictions like iPhone.

... from Google's business.
Microsoft has to get more money for share holders. Google's money sources are better than their "original" money coming from Windows selling.

Do you own shares from Microsoft or Google? If both, which one's shares you perefer?

What if City is just testing their people how easily they give information which is related to their work on City?
If you give, you fail.