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Trouble is, most folks on Android are known to loathe "paying for any software."

This is an article about an Apple user being attacked for Piracy by an Apple developer by Hyjacking their twitter accounts and posting confessions of piracy :) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/ios-apps-hijack-twitter-accounts-post-false-confessions-of-piracy/. Perhaps you should should stop Demonising Android users. I'm personally willing to post screenshots of my Play account, showing all my purchases.

And here is the sad tale of an Android Twitter client running out of of their 100,000 tokens despite having only about 40,000 paid downloads. So even for something as useless as a Twitter client, you have 60% pirates,

Trouble is, most folks on Android are known to loathe "paying for any software."

This is an article about an Apple user being attacked for Piracy by an Apple developer by Hyjacking their twitter accounts and posting confessions of piracy :) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/ios-apps-hijack-twitter-accounts-post-false-confessions-of-piracy/. Perhaps you should should stop Demonising Android users. I'm personally willing to post screenshots of my Play account, showing all my purchases.

Bing runs Server 2012.... Decent article about how Bing and Google are handling future search: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/inside-the-architecture-of-googles-knowledge-graph-and-microsofts-satori/ Bing was running Server 2012 even before it was released for sale... as stated by the AC.

The Playstation 4 is only "unrestricted" in so much that Sony is not making always-on DRM a requirement for games to play on their system (at least, right now; Sony has a habit of changing their minds about stuff like this). The Playstation 4 will, however, allow always-online DRM and you can bet that the publishers will be making use of it just as readily as they do on the PC (and are moving as far forwards with as they can on the consoles).

So? The PC "allows" always-online DRM because it "allows" publishers to do whatever they want. The PS4 is no different in that regard. I'd rather have an open platform and simple vote with my wallet not to buy games that have that crap.

.. #dealwithit

The Playstation 4 is only "unrestricted" in so much that Sony is not making always-on DRM a requirement for games to play on their system (at least, right now; Sony has a habit of changing their minds about stuff like this). The Playstation 4 will, however, allow always-online DRM and you can bet that the publishers will be making use of it just as readily as they do on the PC (and are moving as far forwards with as they can on the consoles).

I bet there's a team of accountants in Sony somewhere crunching numbers hard trying to figure out how much money the ability to resell games earns them (not directly of course, but the ability to resell games is a valued feature to many customers) and how much it would cost them to cut out retailers like Gamestop (who survive on resales). If they feel the PS4 will be profitable and successful without that feature, you can bet it will be dropped because the publishers - and retailers like Amazon or Walmart - prefer not having to compete with used products.

There's a big difference between 'whistleblowing on a crime' and 'leaking every single thing you have

Unless "everything you have" is so illegally outrageous that the story needs to be told.

Furthermore, If Manning is going to be held accountable for information Al-Queda obtained, then the Pentagon and CIA should be held accountable in the same fashion when an unencrypted laptop with sensitive dat is lost, or a website database is compromised* due to gross negiligence. Right now, the only consequences are "whooops, lol sorry bro. have a free 6-month credit inquiry"

* http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/nasa-inspector-gen-says-stolen-laptop-contained-space-station-control-codes.php
http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/02/8821/
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2007/02/hundreds_of_fbi/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/malware_pentagon_usb_ban/

Lenovo sales are up; Apple sales are down. Those two facts alone show the problem isn't Windows 8, but then again there's nothing like reinforcing a narrative many here wants to believe no matter what with creative stats anyway.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/if-you-make-pcs-and-youre-not-lenovo-you-might-be-in-trouble/

What about the fact that the UPlay download service was taken down? Customers who had purchased games cannot download said games because of this. Regardless, my comment about hurting the paying customer was meant as more of a slightly unrelated look at the type of DRM Ubisoft uses, and that this case could be used as an example to how DRM isn't working and then the many ways in which it hurts the customer could be pointed out. My main point was in the irony of the situation, and that no amount of DRM is going to stop piracy; there will always be people in the world that want something for nothing, and are willing to do things like this to get it. I am not justifying the actions of these people at all, I think they are wrong.

As an aside I have no problem with Ubisoft having their own store to sell their games digitally, but when I buy their games from an alternative source, I don't expect to be lumbered with their DRM that for example installs unnecessary browser plugins with security risks and makes me sign up for a UPlay account to play. Just give me the option to download your games and play them, with all other "features" optional.

- They will have your actual name, address, phone number, etc.

Hmm, just like everyone else one the Internet can if they really want it. In fact, if you whois my .com you get my full name, address, telephone. Subpoena your ISP with your IP address and I've got the same, they'll give it to the cops for free. In fact Google's one of the few companies actually standing up for their users when it comes to the Cops' information requests.

Relevant link: Google stands up for Gmail users, requires cops to get a warrant

My message is: I trust them about as much an anyone else I do business with. That is to say: Not much. Fortunately, "Trust" isn't something that should be required these days.

Convince a good lawyer to take this as a class action.

Sorry. Class actions were deleted from your list of acceptable legal remediations by the US Supreme Court after determining that it gave individuals too much power over corporations. Please submit to binding arbitration instead, Citizen.

Sue for court costs, his own legal fees and emotional damages.

Emotional damages? "Your honor, I couldn't sleep. I couldn't work. The idea that someone could accuse me of downloading something on the internet was just so shocking. I couldn't even go out in public, out of fear others might view me as... as a (breaks down sobbing) downloader."

I can't imagine jury anywhere on the planet that wouldn't give the win to the little old lady.

Your imagination sucks.

Use this as a model for said trolls and when it becomes clear that we are hoisting these parasites on their own petards, perhaps they'll go away!

You there, troll! Go away. There. I've just rid the internet of one of its most hated archetypes. I'm gonna step out now for a bit of tea. I expect we'll see no more of those people now that the smack down has been given.

I don't know about other countries, but in India's case, many of the installations requested to be blurred were nuclear facilities. Considering that the terrorists behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks used Google Earth to plan their sightseeing http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/IndustryTrends/Google-Earth-used-in-26-11-terror-attacks/SP-Article1-857188.aspx the censoring is justified. I guess the same goes with the other countries.
Three things wrong with this case, however:
1. The French facility is not the storage depot for weapons grade uranium or something. Its just a radio station. It was relatively unknown and obscure till this incident happened. Streisand effect, anyone?
2. Most of the "classified" info came from an interview of the facility's commander. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/wikipedia-editor-allegedly-forced-by-french-intelligence-to-delete-classified-entry/
3. Despite all this, if the French still wanted to take the article down, they could have simply have gotten a court order to do so. Instead they practically blackmail a volunteer (who had nothing to do with said article) to delete it?

Ars has been bringing in new writers, most of whom are turning out to be low grade hacks ever since The Verge started taking chunks of marketshare. Doesn't help that post Apple / Samsung lawsuits, Apple has been getting a much more public backlash for being trendy arrogant bullshit and marketing. Ars' heavy pro-Apple slant is starting to cost them readership there too.

Still, editorially out of touch with both technophiles and the public, they put out articles like this:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/i-was-an-ipad-skeptic/

The Pebble article was put out by someone completely new, doesn't even have a writer's bio on the site yet.

Then there is this new hack who is completely incomprehensible:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/inside-science-selling-and-upsizing-the-meal/

Ars has been bringing in new writers, most of whom are turning out to be low grade hacks ever since The Verge started taking chunks of marketshare. Doesn't help that post Apple / Samsung lawsuits, Apple has been getting a much more public backlash for being trendy arrogant bullshit and marketing. Ars' heavy pro-Apple slant is starting to cost them readership there too.

Still, editorially out of touch with both technophiles and the public, they put out articles like this:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/i-was-an-ipad-skeptic/

The Pebble article was put out by someone completely new, doesn't even have a writer's bio on the site yet.

Then there is this new hack who is completely incomprehensible:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/inside-science-selling-and-upsizing-the-meal/

Another war against Linux? Do I detect a whiff of Microsoft's scent in the air surrounding this?
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Thanks for the link, and that page has even more informative links. It looks like Rackspace won a dismissal against Uniloc for a patent troll argument asserting patents on simple mathematical operations: rounding a floating point number up or down before performing a mathematical operation on it, rather than performing the math operation and then performing the rounding afterwards. The judge's dismissed Uniloc's suit stating that "simple mathematical operations are not patentable".
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That patent was PTO#5,892,697 and only the first claim was asserted for that lawsuit.
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Interestingly, the way the lawsuit was filed shows that Rackspace was being sued for deploying Linux servers, and the servers were claimed to be infringing # 5,892,697 because they ran Linux. Doesn't this look like another wave of concerted lawsuits and patent trolling against Linux? I wonder who the concert-master is in this case, waving the baton and funding this crazy patent assertion of rounding numbers before an op being performed rather than after the op is performed? Is there a whiff of Microsoft in the air?

Actually, this is just a really really horrible summary.

What really happened: IP Nav had approached Rackspace, claiming that Rackspace was infringing some patents of an unnamed client of theirs. IP Nav told Rackspace that they would disclose neither the identity of their client nor the patents in question unless Rackspace signed an agreement not to sue without giving 30 days written notice that their side was terminating licensing negotiations. As it turns out, the agreement went both ways, with IP Nav agreeing to the same 30 day written notice provision. (Peculiarities of patent law are such that if a patentee approaches you about your potential infringement, you can sue them for a declaratory judgment of noninfringement in a federal district court of your choosing; IP Nav was trying to avoid this so they could choose the venue.)

Rackspace agreed to those terms, and found out the patents in question as well as the identity of the patent holder: Parallel Iron.

After some time had passed, licensing talks weren't really going anywhere, so IP Nav/Parallel Iron filed suit against Rackspace and others in federal district court in Delaware.... without providing 30 days written notice to Rackspace. So Rackspace - indicating that since IP Nav/Parallel Iron breached the contract not to sue, Rackspace was no longer bound by the agreement - filed suit in Texas (where Rackspace is HQed) for a declaratory judgment of noninfringement as well as damages for the breach of contract.

Ars has more details, including a link to Rackspace's complaint.

You would be wrong.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/08/mac-os-x-leopard-receives-unix-03-certification/

Atari was outselling both IBM and Apple in 1982, right before the C-64 came out.

http://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/4/

http://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/4/
http://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/5/

The commodore 64 vastly outsold the Apple II after 1982 and the Atari 400/800 and the TRS-80 outsold the Apple II before 1982

http://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/4/
http://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/5/

The commodore 64 vastly outsold the Apple II after 1982 and the Atari 400/800 and the TRS-80 outsold the Apple II before 1982

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/surface-pro-disk-space-to-fall-a-long-way-short-of-what-youd-expect/

A stock surface 64 pro should only have ~ 23 Gb left

Ha ha, April 1 is really Slashdot appreciation day. There's no real news for nerds here the entire day, so maybe you end up going to http://arstechnica.com/ or http://theregister.co.uk/ or even http://fark.com/ . But inevitably you find that professional reporting is to dry and constrained or too british and sarcastic or the comments are just too much snark, and tomorrow you will inevitably return here, to your usual comfort zone for nerd-upism and troll abuse.

Amazon Glacier has really changed my backup strategy since this time last year - I now push all my own, generated content (ie: pictures, documents, things I could never get back if I lost everything) up to Glacier using the free Windows client, Fast Glacier. In February I was charged $0.13 by Amazon for storing ~8Gb of data. I tend to push new content up as and when I create it (for example, after I process holiday snaps, or get back from a day out).

Day to day file changes are now handled by Windows 8's File History feature where my changes are pushed to a small NAS (Dlink DNS-320) in my shed (technically off site?) over a Homeplug AV ethernet link. For added security I use the legacy Windows Backup application (still present in Windows 8) to create ~ monthly snapshots of the system which I store on a 320Gb external HDD. This drive is one of two which go back and forth between my parents house each time I got and visit. These disks are encrypted using Microsoft Bitlocker drive encryption.

I should get around to properly encrypting my NAS in the shed, I've been looking at encfs.

The only thing unusual here is that /. thought this was story-worthy

Unusual? Slashdot will post any garbage if it's anti-Microsoft.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/2259257
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm/
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/03/17/1914209/microsoft-to-abandon-windows-phone

No wonder the site is basically dying leaving only zealots as people with half a clue leave the site.

Bitcoin watchers and financial experts aren't as convinced. While the two events may be happening simultaneously, there is little, if any, hard evidence to suggest that one event is fueling the other.

Maybe someone needs a refresher in "correlation does not imply causation"?

as usual, ArsTechnica does a much better job of describing this, slashdot eds, take note please!

The best text-only (no ads!) reply though is from Richard A Steenbergen who responded to the gizmodo article. This guy works at one of the tier 1 providers and described the problem, particularly that the DDoS wasn't a big deal for them but that the attack on the INX exchanges might have been.. but turned out not to be after a little tweaking of their filters.

Nevertheless, the problem that I can see is that the internet is open to these kind of attacks. Now Spamhaus can get CloudFlare to handle these attacks on their behalf (for a lot of free advertising) but MyLittleSite.com cannot, and that leave them open to extortion attacks from the criminals who run these DDoSs. Surely a more appropriate response would not be "yeah, we're great, we can handle a poxy 300Gbps" but "we need to sort out this so the baddies cannot screw people with impunity". I'd prefer a technical resolution (eg ingress/egress filtering, rate limiting, non-recursive responses from outside your domain) to legal ones which is all there is at the moment it seems.

as usual, ArsTechnica does a much better job of describing this, slashdot eds, take note please!

The best text-only (no ads!) reply though is from Richard A Steenbergen who responded to the gizmodo article. This guy works at one of the tier 1 providers and described the problem, particularly that the DDoS wasn't a big deal for them but that the attack on the INX exchanges might have been.. but turned out not to be after a little tweaking of their filters.

Nevertheless, the problem that I can see is that the internet is open to these kind of attacks. Now Spamhaus can get CloudFlare to handle these attacks on their behalf (for a lot of free advertising) but MyLittleSite.com cannot, and that leave them open to extortion attacks from the criminals who run these DDoSs. Surely a more appropriate response would not be "yeah, we're great, we can handle a poxy 300Gbps" but "we need to sort out this so the baddies cannot screw people with impunity". I'd prefer a technical resolution (eg ingress/egress filtering, rate limiting, non-recursive responses from outside your domain) to legal ones which is all there is at the moment it seems.

as usual, ArsTechnica does a much better job of describing this, slashdot eds, take note please!

The best text-only (no ads!) reply though is from Richard A Steenbergen who responded to the gizmodo article. This guy works at one of the tier 1 providers and described the problem, particularly that the DDoS wasn't a big deal for them but that the attack on the INX exchanges might have been.. but turned out not to be after a little tweaking of their filters.

Nevertheless, the problem that I can see is that the internet is open to these kind of attacks. Now Spamhaus can get CloudFlare to handle these attacks on their behalf (for a lot of free advertising) but MyLittleSite.com cannot, and that leave them open to extortion attacks from the criminals who run these DDoSs. Surely a more appropriate response would not be "yeah, we're great, we can handle a poxy 300Gbps" but "we need to sort out this so the baddies cannot screw people with impunity". I'd prefer a technical resolution (eg ingress/egress filtering, rate limiting, non-recursive responses from outside your domain) to legal ones which is all there is at the moment it seems.

Right, the post I was talking about was saying that the traffic should be filtered at the edge of the network, my point is that wouldn't do anything.

I meant...

There's no point to filtering out spoofed IP addresses

w proper sentence structure lol.

AC didn't specific which network the ISP's or spamhaus. I agree the ISP can fix it though, getting them to do so carries its own set of challenges.

Here's a good read for anybody still confused: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/spamhaus-ddos-grows-to-internet-threatening-size/

Basically restates the above post + politics.

Actually, all that needs to happen is for the ISPs to correctly set their drop tables on their BGP policies. These tables should be set up by default when the ISP acquires a netblock, and updated each time a netblock is added/dropped. It's SOP, and not difficult.

For consumer-facing ISPs who don't have BGP to peer with other networks (but are just a subscriber themselves), they can just configure the drop tables on their border switches so that only source IPs within their netblock can be sent outbound. This provides them with MANY advantages (as it lowers potential bandwidth usage and lessens service abuse and resulting support tickets) and for most providers (except those who dynamically lease from multiple netblocks for the same pool -- something you shouldn't be doing without BGP) carries no risk. It's 2 hours during the maintenance window (to allow for testing before deploying) that will likely pay for itself within a day.

In short, the only reasons I can see not to do this are complicity, laziness and ignorance.

64-bit browsers are inherently more secure, and can access more memory. Native 64-bit apps also run faster. You're trying to call someone an idiot without realizing that you don't know what you're talking about in claiming there are no advantages.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/64-bit-firefox-for-windows-should-be-prioritized-not-suspended/

Right, the post I was talking about was saying that the traffic should be filtered at the edge of the network, my point is that wouldn't do anything.

I meant...

There's no point to filtering out spoofed IP addresses

w proper sentence structure lol.

AC didn't specific which network the ISP's or spamhaus. I agree the ISP can fix it though, getting them to do so carries its own set of challenges.

Here's a good read for anybody still confused: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/spamhaus-ddos-grows-to-internet-threatening-size/

Basically restates the above post + politics.

I think this is the article in question.

Just last month, the Ontario Appeals Court ruled that a cellphone that's not digitally locked (such as with a password) can be searched without a warrant... but if locked, a warrant is required.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/21/1343231/cellphone-privacy-in-canada-encryption-triggers-need-for-warrant

Now the Canadian Supreme Court says that access to text messages requires a warrant. This is interesting because the Ontario case from last month involved text messages that were searched without a warrant.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/cops-can-search-mobile-phoneonly-if-its-not-password-protected/

I would assume that the Canadian Supreme Court ruling takes precedence over the Ontario Appeals Court ruling... for text messages. However, photos, video, chat logs, etc apparently don't get the same protection.

So... lock your phone with a password, no matter what... even if it's just a minimal one that's easy to type.

Looks like Microsoft is doing basically the same thing in Kenya:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/solar-power-and-white-spaces-bring-internet-to-towns-without-electricity/

Microsoft is already using a whiite space network in Kenya to bring 16Mbps broadband powered by solar panels to towns without electricity.

As I understand it, this only worked in some regions of Canada (and maybe a few other scattered locations), and the latest stock radio image in Jellybean 4.2.2 eliminated the "feature".

Of course not. (Almost) no technology will ever solve the built-in greed and scandal problem. (Aside from Zero-Point Energy, but that is a discussion for another day...)

However, technology can make it easier to track the "paper-trail" (utilizing BitCoin then could make it easier to hold those accountable who mismanage their responsiblity / fraud others). The key issue though is as long as the governed holds those in power responsible for their actions then any technology is largely irrelevant -- technology has the advantage that those wiling to make excuses "We don't know where the money is/went." harder to lie about. Sadly, the general populace doesn't really care about accountability even WITH with the current tech; I don't see this changing anytime in the foreseeable future.

One of the positive things about BitCoin I see is that people are starting to ask "Why isn't the money trail more traceable? Why do you we continue to let the Army go extremely over-budget?" etc.

i.e.
* http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/how-to-blow-6-billion-on-a-tech-project/

"cost growth and execution problems were based on the fact that no GMR radios were ever even tested by potential users until 2010. After 13 years in the pipeline, what those users saw was a radio that weighed as much as a drill sergeant, took too long to set up, failed frequently, and didnâ(TM)t have enough range."

and

* http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/09/army-to-congress-thanks-but-no-tanks/?hpt=hp_c1

If the Pentagon holds off repairing, refurbishing or making new tanks for three years until new technologies are developed, the Army says it can save taxpayers as much as $3 billion.

But guess which group of civilians isn't inclined to agree with the generals on this point?

Congress.

To be exact, 173 House members - Democrats and Republicans - sent a letter April 20 to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, urging him to continue supporting their decision to produce more tanks.

That's right. Lawmakers who frequently and loudly proclaim that presidents should listen to generals when it comes to battlefield decisions are refusing to take its own advice.

If BitCoin were to ever become popular guess who will be the first to "discredit" it ?

VMware COO Carl Eschenbach jumped on the Amazon theme, saying, "I look at this audience, and I look at VMware and the brand reputation we have in the enterprise, and I find it really hard to believe that we cannot collectively beat a company that sells books

VMWare is completely lost if that is how they view their marketplace.

Replying to myself as I can't edit posts: there's a much better write-up at Ars: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/03/dells-game-of-thrones-icahn-blackstone-make-rival-bids-for-company/ The key part that's missing in the IB Times: how Icahn plans to finance the takeover. Here it is: "Icahn's group would put up a total of $5 billion in cash and equity in Dell as part of the deal, spend $7.4 billion of Dell's cash-on-hand, collect $1.7 billion by financing against Dell's outstanding accounts receivable, and add $5.2 billion in new debt to the company's ledgers."

In other words, Icahn gets a loan for $5B, spends over $7B of Dell's own cash and takes out two separate loans against Dell's assets for another $8B. In further other words, the only people who would benefit from the deal are current stockholders who think that making an extra 50 cent a share now is a good thing. Everyone else, including employees, will be handed a Dell that will be significantly worse off.

Find me some in the google play store.

It doesn't seem hard to find.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/more-malware-found-hosted-in-google-android-market/

http://wmpoweruser.com/trend-micro-one-in-ten-google-play-store-apps-is-malware/

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/03/android-malware-emerges-on-google-play-which-installs-a-trojan-on-your-pc-uses-your-microphone-to-record-you/

Oh, and of course not all app types are available from Google Play Store are they? Where are the ad-blockers for example?

Stop trolling, and educate yourself.

It's you that headed down this path. I merely pointed out that your comment about the user always being the flaw which would always let malware in did not apply to iOS or consoles. Rather than just accept that iOS has that advantage, you wandered off into ever more unrealistic scenarios of how iOS could get malware. And then, when Android's malware problem is pointed out you flip the opposite way, and try to minimise that.

Accept that both platforms have pros and cons. And that people quite rationally make different decisions. Your opinion is just opinion, it's not generic wisdom.

hopefully you have ample examples of men receiving death threats

Sure. Here are a few that come up on Google:

This guy pissed off some animal rights activists and they threatened to use pliers on his testicles, disembowel him and use napalm on him. Among other things. Incidentally, it was a woman who ran the organization that sent the threats, and was sentenced to jail for it. That one isn't even anonymous!

Gay blogger gets death threats.

This guy tracked down the sender of his death threats.

Here's a story about a guy who sends death threats to people who debunk the paranormal. Some blog authors, mostly male, were targeted.

Here's a guy who pissed off 4chan by making a movie. Here's one who wrote a book. If you want to do an experiment go post something they find offensive there and see how many death/rape/mutilation threats you get.

A Slashdot story about a guy getting death threats from some scammers he exposed.

Browsing Slashdot at -1 can be pretty enlightening too.

If you want to really get some threats, piss off some religious people.

SuSE has the best installation and configuration utility

Not to be a dick, but SuSE is the last distro any Linux enthusiast should be suggesting. Their microsoft pact f#cked the rest of the community[0]

Everyone who was using Ubuntu switched to Linux Mint[1] after Shuttleworth decided Amazon needed to know what you do online.

[0] - http://arstechnica.com/business/2006/11/8141/
[1] - http://linuxmint.com/

Although this sounds interesting, what would be more useful for me would be OpenOffice/LibreOffice on Android.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/libreoffice-for-android-frustratingly-close-to-release/
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Android
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/11985/is-libreoffice-4-available-for-android/

We recently discovered that human hearing beats the linear response assumptions used in lossy codecs. So yes, their criticisms are scientifically founded.

It should be 40 million years older with a margin of error of 50 million years. Ars article much more in depth if you want to know more.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/03/first-planck-results-the-universe-is-still-weird-and-interesting/

Clinton was using IBM/Lotus Notes and it was working well. G.W. Bush switched to Microsoft Exchange, arguably so emails would get lost.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/04/bush-lost-e-mails/

Obama's office is now using free open-source Drupal-based groupware, called OpenAtrium.

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/feb/14/white-house-using-open-atrium/

https://drupal.org/user/2356044

Exchange and Lotus Notes were used for email. Drupal is a content management system, which can be used for discussions, but it doesn't replace email. What Obama uses now, I don't know, but it certainly isn't Drupal for email. It probably is still Exchange with a proper backup system.

Clinton was using IBM/Lotus Notes and it was working well. G.W. Bush switched to Microsoft Exchange, arguably so emails would get lost.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/04/bush-lost-e-mails/

Obama's office is now using free open-source Drupal-based groupware, called OpenAtrium.

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/feb/14/white-house-using-open-atrium/

https://drupal.org/user/2356044

"The attackers relied on a variety of methods, including the use of a digitally signed version of TeamViewer that has been modified through a technique known as "DLL hijacking" to spy on targets in real-time." link

Have you ever heard about the relation between prices and demand? When the price is 0 the demand is immensely greater than when the price is not 0. These 90% of people that pirate are just the added demand that wouldn't exist if the price was not 0, as found here:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/03/new-research-music-piracy-should-not-be-a-concern-for-copyright-holders/

And here:

http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=6084

Just to cite the last published study among many.

There's a good detailed article at Ars about that which is a better read than what /. offers (as so often, sadly)