if you want to upload 800x600 images after hitting the limit, that is. if you want 2kx2k pictures afterwards, then you need G+.

waiting for google reader myself, too

well, if you'd joined it, you'd notice that it doesn't attempt to create an alternative internet. it's just a nice tool for a lot of things. join, and put it to good use.

davepermen

valuable top-of-screen real estate?

i thought that's how war against terrorism was supported. because terrorists are evil, and we had to fear them, and thus had to do anything against them?

then you realize how lonely you are on google+, because it just isn't facebook. aaand back you are.

facebook groups exist since long time and allow you to share stuff only with them. the problem with that stuff is always you having to manage them.

And we still shouldn't care about them how they play with each other. We should care about why companies are that easily hacked by about everyone, and how they lied to us when we agreed to terms of use and how they look after our data and make sure it's secure.

Inadequate security of companies that have user data and state in the fineprint they care about it IS a corporation wrongdoing. A big one. Any company that can get credit card info out with a simple SQL injection, or has user passwords unencrypted while stating they haven't should get sued to hell.

Indeed. LulzSec showed the real issue: Companies don't care about our user data as they should (and told us they did).

I really like that they did not HAD to do anything clever. Just shows how companies lie about security all the time. Which was one of the main points I loved that they showed it up.

I find this exactly to be what was needed right before the general public started to move entirely into the cloud: showing that the cloud is nothing secure at all. Don't put your life up into the web. It just takes away your control and, interestingly rather easily, puts it into hands of hackers.

They showed general public that trusting in the web is stupid, and this, indeed is a good thing. Sometimes, people have to get hurt to learn from it. That is a bad thing, but a typical human thing.

i use my laptop quite often sideways for reading. pdf's are typically vertical and fit nicely with one page on the screen, and then with pageup pagedown i can flip trough it. very nice for reading.

I'm happy if someone likes something microsoft that gets shown to them. normally, that only works for apple. For microsoft, the typical reaction is to hate it, without even looking at it (see windows phone 7.. oh the hate. and most that actually use it for a while then love it)

luckily, win8 doesn't look at ALL like this.

aero is great for the technological change it brought. i hated the xp theme for not bringing anything and just looking not-well designed. both aero and metro look well designed, and have brought technical and/or ui changes that are good things.

i can access most of my pages with just one letter.

oh i would, and so would any dj i know that likes to still spin vinyl (from time to time at least, or with traktor).