Your data is valuable to us.

It is not about privacy or freedom, it is about 'free'. By using Chrome OS you are giving your data away for free. Chrome OS is not designed for local file storage and I would not be surprised if the production Chrome appliance came with a read only file system.

Google are not benignly offering free online storage, Google has an insatiable appetite for all data.

The contents of your hard drive, your data, your pictures emails and documents may have no value to me, or to Joe hacker, but what if you had access to every hard drive on the planet?

What if that (suitably anonymized ) data could be analyzed and correlated statistically?

Would that data set have value to you?

Think about it.

So long Beniot

So long Benoit, and thanks for all the images. You were an interdimensional explorer. z=z2+c

Andriod

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Sorry to be picky, but the nexus 6 bunch were 'replicants' ; a kind of clone or genetically engineered organism,. Not an Andriod. A cryptic nod to Dick for sure. Well you would wouldn't you.

They give it away.

Microsoft will never get this WGA or DRM key thing right, it's not in their interest. Sure they what to sell you Windows.. Sure they want to tax you on your new PC. Ultimately they want MS Windows running on your PC whether or not it's a genuine copy. Think of the massive discounts they give to OEMs to keep windows on the desktop. Think of the massive discounts that they gave to governmental departments when the latter were thinking of switching to Linux.. Market share counts for too much.

I'm a PC, I'm. a Mac, I'm a Slacker.

OMG! SWF? WTF?

Seems a lot of web designers are using Flash to produce animated banners and the such like for advertising. Great eye candy, but wouldn't the creative use of animated GIFs be more apropos?

Sledgehammer and nut spring to mind.