The Google tin foil hat is about to be launched. This is a ruse to drum up demand.

CNN is providing us a service, making sure that Big Brother can't monitor what news stories we are watching. The EULA is there for our protection. Thank you, CNN!

I'm a fairly libertarian guy, but wouldn't a whole mob of new video-callers be somewhat dangerous on the road? If you thought texting while driving was bad, just imagine ubiquitous video calling. There would almost have to be legislation against video calls while driving.

Everyone knows the Earth is ~6000 years old!

That would be a heck of a thing to leave inside a patient after surgery.

Can any storage gurus explain the real-world benefit to this? Is it currently impossible to encrypt a RAID volume built on two different manufacturers' disks?

...but the single, common user experience is a big selling point for fruity products among people I know. Microsoft obviously can't attain a similar degree of this without controlling PC hardware, but having a single version of Windows 7 would help immensely. Joe the User won't understand why his PC is different from his wife's under the same operating system. Most people can't be bothered with learning about the different versions of the same thing. Windows should be Windows should be Windows.