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Apparently the consensus winner is Windows Me, and I will jump right on that bandwagon.  It was terrible.  I had it on a home PC and it was not a stable OS.  PC World ranked Me #4 in their worst tech products of all time list.  Vista wasn't great, either, but compared to ME it was excellent. 

I was adding a new network printer, and under the "Choose Devices and Printers" choices I saw an option for Microsoft XPS Document Writer. I've never seen an physical XPS Document Writer before; what is this choice used for?

First off, nice Xenoblade Chronicles avatar.  That's one of the best RPGs of the past few years on any console, so I'm pretty sure I know where your loyalty lies! :-)  

It's been a year since Steve Jobs turned the CEO position at Apple over to Tim Cook. What do you think about his first year in that position? Has he been up to the challenge? What has he done right/wrong?

I am not very familiar with Symbian OS, which is what I assume your Nokia is running, but the only way that really comes to mind is someone could intercept your info, including password, while you are using a WiFi connection.

The first thing to keep in mind is that there is no threat from the Blackhole exploit kit to the vast majority of WordPress users that use WordPress.com.  The vulnerability only exists when WordPress software has been downloaded and installed, and the websites are self-hosted.

I think comparing NFC to a USB port is a little glib.  To make it more comparable, I would say there is no more risk from NFC than letting a stranger connect to a USB port.  Admittedly, you would probably notice the cable, whereas is it a little harder to get a visual on radio communication.

I agree, this is not unfamiliarity with some new or cutting edge tech/practices that caused the problem, it was a data center management/design problem.  A data center should have its backup system regularly load tested, including making certain that multiple generators are ably to synch outputs which sounds like may have been the problem.

I may be a little biased on this, seeing as how I was an AT&T customer and now I am with Virgin Mobile.  The main complaint I've had with Virgin and other prepaid carriers was a lack of high end devices, but that's been somewhat addressed by Virgin Mobile with the upcoming 4S and the HTC EVO 4G.    

It seems that every other word that Larry Ellison said during this week's press conference about its new cloud offering was "unique". What does Oracle bring to cloud services that is unique or new?