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...And while it lost market share to some of its mobile rivals, Apple still captured 82.7 percent of the app store market last year, down from 92.8 percent the prior year.

So that's what, 17.3% left for Android, roughly a 1:5 ratio to Apple? Yes Android is growing quickly, and it has a long way to go to catch up. That could happen, sure. Let's look at this from another angle -- what is the per-user value on both platforms? Apple's users spend more. http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-iphone-android-revenue-per-user-2011-2

Uninformed is not the correct term. Realistic is more apt -- if you're an app developer you typically want to get the largest market possible, and the Apple store is the largest market today. The 30% fee is an entrance fee to this quantity of people... people who generally spend more on apps. It's like complaining that advertising via generic "occupant" coupon books through the mail is cheaper and you'd rather do that than buy a TV or magazine ad. It's cheaper for a reason -- the number of qualified buyers you reach. The Apple store is king of that area today.

I suspect the real reason for his upping his ante of crazy in his shows is that his ratings are in freefall. When your entire product is based off of irrational fear, scape-goating and paranoia, one way to maintain that fear and paranoia once it starts to fade through constant exposure is to make more fear and paranoia. I guess the George Soros smear didn't stick and he's looking for a new target and Google probably seemed like a good one to take on.

Egypt's military are already busy protecting their customer base.
Thanks for a really interesting link, BTW :-)

The atrix laptop dock costs $500.

I'm curious how do we demonstrate a need for high speed rail when we don't have any? It's a serious question, the trains max out typically at about 80mph or so, IIRC, and that's not anywhere near what one could describe as high speed.

And those trains are heavily underutilized (aside from the northeast corridor) and have been so since before Amtrak was created in 1970. We also have cars and planes, which between the two of them, cover any transportation range.

Finally, it's worth noting that no private company has ever attempted to compete in this market. That's a solid indication to me that the need isn't there.

To be blunt, high speed trains are very expensive per km of track laid. In US terms, I think it'll cost somewhere around 100 million dollars per mile on average to buy the land and lay the track. I'm not the only one who thinks this. That means Obama's proposed spending will be inadequate for anything but a few specialized lines.

I think to propose this kind of spending for a project without demonstrated need is reprehensible.

http://www.businessinsider.com/hps-webos-pcs-will-run-on-windows-not-replace-it-2011-2 :

But in fact, WebOS won't be replacing Windows. After the event, a spokesperson explained that WebOS would probably ship as a customized user interface running on top of Windows, very similar to HP's TouchSmart today. So Microsoft will still get its Windows revenue -- for now.

In the long run, though, HP's move is still bad for Microsoft. Developers build for the platform that lets them reach the most users. Five years ago, Windows was the only native platform (that is, not including Web platforms like JavaScript) that could make developers a lot of money.

It is somewhat ironic that you should bring up Facebook, which is the first website that comes to mind when I think about the problems with passwords. Have you forgotten what one of Zuckerberg's first uses for Facebook was? I have not:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3

This is one of the biggest problems with passwords: you often wind up sending a password to some unknown system that could be doing a number of things with it (like displaying it to Mark Zuckerberg). Combined with the fact that people routinely use the same password on multiple systems, and may mistakenly enter the password for one system when logging in to another, I would say passwords are almost a security liability.

Here is the alternative, and it is very common to do this with ssh: use public key authentication. I can leave my public key on numerous systems, and not worry about some account being compromised. My computer generated the key; computers are good at generating big random numbers. I can also choose my security level; if I want a search space of a certain minimum size, I can generate an RSA key of a corresponding size (likewise with DSA/EC/etc.). There are some annoyances with public keys, but in my opinion, they are far better than passwords.

IIRC someone did some analysis and found that older drivers were much more susceptible to "unintended acceleration".
Given that some brands/models are targeted at the more mature motorist (cadillac, perhaps toyota) I wouldn't expect there to be an even spread.

Here's an article I just found (not the one I remember, but same ideas) http://www.businessinsider.com/a-deep-dive-into-toyota-sudden-acceleration-accident-stats-2010-3

A pure marketing lead response is 100% right. The funniest thing was that the attempt to claim click fraud. If we remember click fraud is where a site owner tries to get advertising revenue by making fraudulent clicks. I don't see how Google manages to get advertising revenue from Bing. This just seems to be a case of when you get caught start slinging as much mud around randomly as you can and hope people don't notice.

In case people haven't noticed; what Google has discovered means that if you have private information leaked somewhere (e.g. a password in an SQL query) this means that bing is now pushing that straight from your browser (where it should normally be safe) onto the web. I'm surprised nobody has managed to find a bunch of interesting secret information in bing based on this. There must be some way to get it out. A good chance would be looking for unique keys in URLs or web pages and then feeding them into Bing.

This just looks so obviously terribly wrong that you can see that Microsoft really doesn't have a clue about search. No wonder they have to copy.

At Silicon Alley Insider, they linked to video clips of Shum and Matt Cutts of Google slamming each other at a conference.

This really looks like an empty threat to me - as one of the previous posters said, a large part of the appeal of an ipad is the kindle app.

Only #8 of the The Most Popular Free iPad Apps of 2010 - iBooks is #1, even the IMDB app has Kindle beat.

Really? The market demands that such a large and influential company just disappear and create a power vacuum? I mean, I get the anti-MS attitude, really I do, but some of your points seem to be more the rantings of an anti-MS fanboy then anything else.

Vista;s Service Pack 1 came out February 4, 2008 and Win7 came out October 22, 20009. That's like, 20 some odd months apart. And given Vista came out January of 2007 its not like things were just all rushed out (remember, Win7 was technically in development while WinVista was). And really, Win7 is an amazing OS. Personally i had no problems with Vista because my home PC was overpowered so I don't feel my expectations were set low. I manage ~1300 computers and the ones moved over to Windows7 have comparatively far fewer issues. The thing is rock solid and easy to recover in the odd event it does run into an issue. Mind you my *nix box at home still has a better uptime (over a year since the last power outage).

Also, anyone actually involved in the computer industry knows how widely used IE still is, despite the advantages of alternative browsers. With so many people looking to use their PC as an appliance (as Steve Jobs predicted back in the day) and so many old corporate webapps dependent on it its no wonder either.

By the way, when the Zune first came out it was the second most popular mobile device after the iPod. Agreed that doesn't seem to have lasted long. Latest story regarding it I can find regales how they fell to single digits of market share. Having used a 1st generation Zune and multiple versions of the iPod this doesn't surprise me, even with the integration with the Xbox I like.

Honestly I would rather see some new blood in Microsoft, and new ideas not get squashed. Their corporate culture needs to adapt. A company that big won't just die overnight and its decline would be more harmful for computing as it gets more desperate.

Instead of parroting the Fox news lies you should read this.

Also:
http://www.businessinsider.com/tunisia-facebook-2011-1

Quote:
"They did this through keyloggers, a piece of software that records the keys you hit on your computer.

When Facebook realized this was going on, they quickly switched the entire Tunisian site to https..."

Have you TRIED any other search engine? These guys have been working hard to claw a 0.1% from Google. And along the way they have actually managed to produce some pretty nifty search algorithms. I have stopped using Google for 2 years now and have seldom been let down by my new search engine.

Naming your new one would have been useful, especially if its so great. By not naming it I just assume you are a an anti-google troll. Sorry if that is wrong but we all know there is an anti google campaign paid for by AT&T and MS.

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2741
http://techrights.org/2009/06/15/microsofts-whisper-campaign-goog/
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-an-anti-google-whisper-campaign-looks-like-2009-6

Google might be in trouble when it comes to Android code.

Or next time they don't want one again.

That was, in fact, the first thing Mark Zuckerberg used Facebook to do: gain access to others' email.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3

There's already the Intel Science Talent Search, which used to be the Westinghouse Science Talent Search back when Westinghouse mattered.

Google's people are working on cool stuff. Sudoku solving for Android. Trying to acquire Groupon. Buying a yacht. Meanwhile, Google search quality is slipping. Google needs to focus.

The ONLY reason we aren't currently wiping our asses with money because it is worth less than TP is the Fed playing Three Card Monty with the money. See QE2 for a nice example. The fed prints the money, buys treasury bonds with the money they just printed, USA blows more money thus needing to sell more treasuries, lather rinse repeat. the problem is it is all a shell game, and when it comes tumbling down like any Ponzi scheme the shit WILL hit the fan. Think those bankers at the Fed is gonna lose money? Hell no, they'll have done converted their money into the Yuan or Gold and quietly slipped out the back when they realize the game is up.

That will leave the USA with NO real income (too much tied into "financial and services" which will be blown to hell and have nobody to sell to respectively) massive homelessness and unemployment, no way to pay the bills like unemployment, social security, medicare, etc. One thing we WILL have is a shitload of arms, lots of warm bodies, and plenty of factories shut down during offshoring that won't take that much to start back up.

If you want just a tiny taste of the REAL picture we are currently looking at I suggest you read this but don't read it just after eating as it WILL make you want to puke! Basically the government and the fed have been feeding the US people a giant line of bullshit, while the money is secretly moving out as fast as they can carry it. You have 4 dollars going out and never coming back for every ONE dollar you got coming in, over 22,000 factories closed in just a single decade with the jobs replacing them being "McJobs". It doesn't take Stephen Hawking to do the math. If it wasn't for the fed I truly believe we would already be in another great depression but robbing Peter to pay Paul just isn't sustainable, especially when you have no middle class left and huge masses of working poor and soon to be homeless.

Hell I can look out my window at the boarded up shops, the business districts in most of the south look like something from "Escape from New York" and the government has bet their asses on an "IP Economy" which is betting the farm on getting other countries to pay for something any kid with a burner can make infinite copies of. Sadly it don't take Nostradamus to see the future the USA is headed for, and it ain't pretty.

According to the latest estimates, Social Security will take in less in revenue than it pays out each year by 2016. That's just a few years. And the program will go completely insolvent by 2037 if no serious changes are made. Medicare will be insolvent by 2017.

So, piss away another half billion. Who gives a shit?

March 23, 2010 4:49 PM on CBSNews.com:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001021-503544.html

so no link to where the crosshairs were on her face right? Here's a link to loony liberal DailyKos that targets her too.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/25/1204/74882/511/541568

Add to the fact that the guy is a loony leftwing

http://www.businessinsider.com/woman-who-says-she-went-to-school-with-alleged-shooter-says-he-met-giffords-in-2007-2011-1

But do keep on. It's amusing to see everything evil (up to and including stubbed toes) is because of the tea party.

The image with the crosshairs can be found below, http://www.businessinsider.com/gabrielle-giffords-was-on-sarah-palins-hit-list-2011-1

They're blaming nutbag teatards like you because of things like GIffords being threatened for voting for the so-called "Obamacare" bill (Palin even went so far as to post a map with gun targets over her and other congresscritters who voted for it). And give up on the whole "ACORN" thing. It was a fucking bunch of community organizers, not some brownshirts. It's amazing how two corporate run and controlled parties can jockey for support by forcing wedge issues into the forefront while still steadily increasing the income and wage disparity to epic new levels.... your stupid teabagger "movement", as contrived and astroturfed by morons like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (and even that Rand Paul asshole), is just another way of shoring up more money for the wealthy. Societies are still judged by how they treat their least fortunate, and in that way, we fail. Epically.

I don't know why this was modded positively

http://www.businessinsider.com/woman-who-says-she-went-to-school-with-alleged-shooter-says-he-met-giffords-in-2007-2011-1

it was a nutbag far left liberal.

apparently one of his crank causes is gold and silver backed currency: a classic right wing wackjob

http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-lee-loughner-2011-1

thank you right wing america, for all the hate mongering and fearmongering

you reap what you sow

Hey! I hear Zune is really nice (and at least one people will reply to this confirming it). And heck, at last count, Zune was coming in with 1% of the market share.

I had to check to be sure, but yeah, apparently Zunes still exist. I think Microsoft just thinks it would be too embarrassing to discontinue their, ahem, iPod-killer.

True, but why do I need to buy a new motherboard too? LGA 775 lasted from 2.6ghz Pentium 4s until 3ghz Core 2 Quads. Socket 939 came out in 2004 and was used from 1ghz Athlon 64s to 3.2ghz dual-core Athlon 64 X2. These sockets lasted through several CPU generations without change.

Not quite "without change". Only late P4 era LGA 775 motherboards can accept any form of Core 2, and early C2 boards don't work with late C2s. Pretty sure much the same thing happened on the AMD side too. The socket didn't change mechanically, but the specifications for the voltage regulators feeding the CPU's core power rail did.

And maintaining the same socket for so long comes at a cost: performance. As demonstrated by Nehalem, the Core 2 architecture was definitely being held back by the ancient P4 FSB.

The other thing is that Intel is a bit ahead of AMD on integrating things like PCIe, graphics cores, etc. into the same package / die as the CPU. The more you integrate, the less possible it is to keep the same socket across a broad range of products over a long period of time, simply because interfaces are going to change, different products need a different mix of IO, etc. Expect a lot more change in AMD sockets as they too begin to integrate.

"Hurray, you belong to 1% of the market. "

great statistic, where exactly did you get that 1% from? Do you seriously think only 1% of PC users dislike upgrading motherboards?

I am not the person who said that, but do you seriously think >>1% of PC users ever upgrade motherboards? Just how many people do you think build their own in the first place?

For another angle on it, consider how PC gaming has shriveled in the face of consoles. Why would that be? A major factor is that to enjoy the latest and greatest PC games, you almost had to be a gearhead who could upgrade a computer piecemeal. Ordinary folks just don't do that. They want a box they can buy and plug in and know that it will work with whatever game they buy for it, so they can spend their time playing the game, not worrying about whether they have a fast enough GPU or the latest drivers etc.

What does that tell you about the likely popularity of the upgrade-your-motherboard market these days? 1% may be an exxageration, but it probably isn't much of one. And honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the figure is actually less than 1%.

"Dropping $300 on every processor generation Intel makes is a waste of money. If you got that much to spend, buy a more expensive CPU and keep it a generation or two longer. It not like it goes broke just because it's not the newest toy anymore, you know."

True, but why do I need to buy a new motherboard too? LGA 775 lasted from 2.6ghz Pentium 4s until 3ghz Core 2 Quads. Socket 939 came out in 2004 and was used from 1ghz Athlon 64s to 3.2ghz dual-core Athlon 64 X2. These sockets lasted through several CPU generations without change.

My real complaint is Windows Product Activation freaks out when you install a new motherboard. more more. I've lost more data changing motherboards than I have changing CPUs, hard drives, video cards or all other hardware combined. Upgrading a motherboard is an all day process, since I have to dig the old motherboard out and put the new board in and deal with Windows issues and drivers.

Swapping out a CPU is as simple as popping off the heatsink and changing cpus.

"Hurray, you belong to 1% of the market. "

great statistic, where exactly did you get that 1% from? Do you seriously think only 1% of PC users dislike upgrading motherboards?

• We have no real idea if Facebook revenues are actually near $2 billion. The company is private and doesn't have to report numbers to anyone.
• Groupon and its clones buy lots of Facebook ads, and we don't know if group-buying is a sustainable advertising model. Some local merchants say it kills their margins.
• Zynga and the other social game companies are desperate to find a way to live off Facebook. Google is supposedly building an alternative.

Regardless, it sounds like more of these privately traded shares in auctions from Sharespost will be conducted in the near future. Expect to see Facebook get a serious cash infusion if they all go as well as this one.

Unless you truly believe that empty apartment blocks or even empty cities are a good investment and property prices will always go up that game has to end at some point and when it does China won't be able to hide the pain.

Here are a bunch of satellite photos of these "ghost cities" - I can't say if the commentary is accurate or misleading, but at the very least there are practically no cars visible on any of the streets which suggests that most of it is true.

It's their choice as to what they sell. It is also not censorship.

Yes, it is censorship. I know apologists for corporatism like to pretend that only the government can censor, but that's not what the word means: when a business says "this is objectionable" rather than "people won't buy this", that's censorship. (And in a self-publishing marketplace, "people won't buy this" doesn't matter.)

And that's not just my opinion, and not just a dictionary definition of the word -- Amazon's own statement describes their current actions as censorship: "Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable."

Assange has "distributed to fellow hackers an encrypted 'poison pill' of damaging secrets, thought to include details on BP and Guantanamo Bay." This from his lawyer.

'This is what they believe to be a thermo-nuclear device in the information age.

http://www.businessinsider.com/julian-assange-is-going-to-drop-a-poison-wiki-bomb-if-hes-killed-or-arrested-2010-12

Presumably though, there was a severance package, which would be quite a bit heftier than a bonus check. Although they are now stuck with the burden of finding another job, they get to spend the holidays with their families.

At least that's the company's view of it right?

Tech Crunch and All Things D. Sounds like the Yahoo folks aren't too happy about the word leaking out - "whoever it is, gone!

With Yahoo shutting down Del.icio.us, where will we bookmark things such as these delicious Christmas Lights ... HO-HO-HO! ;-)

http://www.businessinsider.com/debrahlee-lorenzana-citi-2010-6

Read this article about the charges.

In short it's only considered rape because they did not consent to sex without a condom and Assange didn't wear a condom or continued fucking them in the pooper like a boss after his condom broke.

Not so nasty after all since it's not Japanese anime-style rape.

...calls for cutting 800+ data centers by 2015, as well as shifting work to cloud computing systems.

Correction:
...call for cutting 800+ data centers by 2015 as well as shifting work to privately owned data centers.

If I hear someone talk about cloud computing again I think I’ll lose my lunch.

That said, Vivek Kundra is a fraud. Anything coming from his mouth is tainted. At the very least the guy lied on his resume about having a degree in biology, then all of a sudden his bio changed and he LOST the degree! Good thing there’s an internet archive!

Others agree:

But his degree in biology has yet to appear as his record shows a degree from College Park Campus for Psychology and nothing more.

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/08/12/special-report-is-us-chief-information-officer-cio-vivek-kundra-a-phony/
http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-cio-vivek-kundra-must-go-2009-3
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/obamas-cio-vivek-kundra-previous-close-employees-arrested-fraud-bribery
http://tech.rightpundits.com/?p=36

Wow, are you really that stupid? seriously? Facebook sells advertising, makes money from the largest online game in the world, sells spots in those games to major corporations. In farmville you can get a McDonalds.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-does-facebook-make-money-2010-5

Sure they are. The iPad has already had a notable impact on the sales of PCs.

Yeah? Link?

One, two. There are plenty more. Basically, iPads are negatively impacting netbook sales, which are PCs. Certainly they are the bottom end of that market, but that's where you're going to see the impact first.

I say informal because it's always possible that sales, in theory, should be rising *more*, but that seems a nitpick to me. In any case, if a significant proportion of iPad sales come at the expense of PC sales, it seems hard to explain how this market could have arisen out of nowhere without absolutely devastating the PC market.

You already did explain it: rates of change. First the netbook's rate of change was negative (i.e., they still sold more, but at a lower rate), and now they are actually selling less. Also, I never said most iPads were sold at the expense of a PC sale, just that it is having a notable effect. If I were being nitpicky, I would have included the iPhone and iPod touch, because there are certainly some PC sales that didn't happen due to them (simply down to the fact that some people may not have had the money for both a new PC and a new iPod, and chose an iPod). The iPad's effect, however, is more prominent.

Most people can't get by with just a bike, however most will not only be able to get by with something like an iPad, but will actually prefer it.

Comparing a bike and a car is a disingenuous analogy.

Most people will be able to get by with an iPad? Really? You think that?

Not today. That's why I used the word "will" and not "can now".

In the absence of a relevant study, I suppose I can't refute that point, but every experience I've had suggests otherwise. I don't know a single iPad owner or iPhone owner who does not also own a PC. In fact... of all the people I know, I can't think of one off the top of my head who does not own a PC. Some of these PCs are several years old, granted, but they use them and could not do without them.

As iPads gain storage, and features like printing, the consumer scenarios where a PC does something that an iPad can't start to vanish.

Likewise most people will continue using PCs even if they also buy smartphones and tablets.

Not likely. Most people fucking hate their PC and love their iPhone/iPad.

I'm not sure what makes you think that exactly. A study? Because if it's personal experience, mine conflicts. Most people I know love their computers.

It's a love-hate relationship. Most people hate them, but love the things they can do with them. Once you can replace them with something they hate less, they will jump at it.

And iPhone love isn't universal.

I never said it was.

I get disappointed with mine from time to time, my best friend is canceling his in favor of a Droid, and my girlfriend has been fuming angry over hers many many times. I'd say I feel net positive about the device, but no more so than about any PC I've ever owned.

I also said the PC will be around for some time. That implies there will be people, like you, who prefer PCs (or at the very least, still want to have one). Let's take it as given that a significant portion of Slashdotters will still have PCs long after the "end of the PC era".

I didn't mean that you were exaggerating, I meant the Young's own words suggested that he was exaggerating.

His continuation about Soros and Koch sounded like pure conspiracy theory speculation based on his extrapolation of that original discussion.

The rest of what you quoted sounded like the same old complaints people have been making about wikileaks hyping the leaks. The thing is that over a year ago Assange explicitly said in an interview that just dumping a zip file of all leaks wasn't effective at drawing attention to the issues disclosed. Presumably all the hype in concert with early disclosure to big newspapers this year is the response to that problem.

He isn't accused of rape, reminder available here.

That is rape according to Swedish law if he did it intentionally. It is as serious as raping a total stranger on the street. She didn't agree to have unprotected sex, if he fooled her to have unprotected sex, that is a very despicable thing in a Swedish mind (I'm Swedish), even worse then "just" raping her. If he has an STD and refused to get tested, that is punishable by the Contagious Diseases Acts, that part alone would render him time in jail. Even if he haven't got an STD, it may be considered a punishable cruelty (in Swedish law we don't make a distinction between physical cruelty and psychological cruelty, cruelty is cruelty).

In the version I've heard, the condom didn't break, but he sneaked it off.

Even if the condom did break, it is rather suspicious. This is a Swedish condom we talk about, not a shitty US condom, they don't break easily. If you ever used a condom in Japan, Swedish condoms is manufactured with the same technology.They are thinner, more elastic and considerably stronger then condoms used in USA. They are somewhat more sensitive to scratches then US style condoms and very sensitive to air bubbles, so if they use the same kind of condoms in Australia as in USA, that may explain why an inexperienced Assange broke the condom, but I believe most of Oceania use the same kind of condoms as Sweden and Japan use. Then again if the condom don't fit, it is more likely to break, Swedish males have the largest penises within EU (there are a silly debate that has been continuing for decades about what size a standard condom should be in EU (as if it is even necessary to standardize), with the Italian and French on one extreme (normal length 4-14 cm, with matching girth) and Danes and Swedes on the other extreme (normal length 11-20 cm, with matching girth), mind you, most males of Swedish heritage can't even use British condoms because they are to snug).

Condoms is the most used protection against pregnancy in Sweden, even between married couples. Most Swedish women won't submit to the health risks and everyday unpleasantries from other types of sexual protection. As a positive side effect, you get a very good protection against STDs. As a side note, the French have most sex in Europe, slightly less then twice a week (mostly by cheating) spending less then ten minutes, but an average Swede, even though he only have sex slightly less then once a week, he/she spend more time to have sex, about three hours a week (and Sweden have the most faithful couples of Europe).

He also voluntarily turned himself in at a police station.

He should have done that a long time ago and it would have been much wiser to do that in Sweden, before interpol got involved. As it is, Assange risks being banned from visiting Sweden and if he is, he can't be assigned as "ansvarig utgivare" for wikileaks, that would otherwise have given the best legal protection a news agency can possible get in the world (the Swedish government fights against foreign (mostly US and Israeli) attempts to silence Swedish press on a daily basis and have done so since the 1960's) and total freedom to continue their operation as they have of today. Of course, wikileaks could appoint another leader and he/she could become "ansvarig utgivare".

He isn't accused of rape, reminder available here.

He also voluntarily turned himself in at a police station.

If you're in London and can make it out NOW, please consider protesting.

Say what you want about Assange, but if his goal was to draw attention to factual info leaked into the wild by US government employees, then he succeeded beyond even his own wildest dreams.

Other than the narrow focus on the US government, that is precisely what his goal has been. He even said so about a year ago:

---Bank Of America Sets Up Swat Team To Combat Wikileaks

Just remembering the recent Netflix case..the "last mile cable" laying tough guys might have something to say about the matter.

Googled related story here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-needs-to-worry-about-comcast-not-youtube-2009-4

Are losing half a billion a year, way to set an example!

Android as a phone platform is outselling iOS as a phone platform.

Except it's not. iOS outsells Android.

just saying that doesn't make it true, to refute a claim you need to use a little thing called evidence

How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked Into Rival ConnectU In 2004
Mar. 5, 2010
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-connectu-2010-3

...At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address.

In this new, fake profile, he listed Cameron's height as 7'4", his hair color as "Ayran Blond," and his eye color as "Sky Blue." He listed Cameron's "language" as "WASP-y."

Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely...

if it never exists outside somebody's head

Except that it does exist outside of their head: the password is communicated to the system that the person is logging in to. Case in point:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3

From the article:

Mark used his site, TheFacebook.com, to look up members of the site who identified themselves as members of the Crimson. Then he examined a log of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. If the cases in which they had entered failed logins, Mark tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts. He successfully accessed two of them.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-microsoft-operating-income-by-division-2010-2

"Entertainment and devices" has been positive and negative over the years, shows as positive at the moment.

Here are some numbers not from someone's ass.

Windows and Office are major, Server is a rather distant third (judging by history, it looks like the the top of the purple part is mistakenly cut off at the end), online services are a loss, and "entertainment and devices" is a small positive (at the moment.)

And, for fun, here's a similar graph for Apple.