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Google is an international company. It has customers in many countries that practice many religions, or none at all. Just a glance at Wikipedia shows that, in addition to Christians, there are 1.5 billion Muslims, 1.1 billion non-religious people, and 1 billion Hindus, in the world.

Christopher pretty much covers it. It's amazingly how a momentary slip-up can cause a major head ache. Good luck!

I haven't tried it in lately, but Google Earth hasn't always worked very well with Linux. In any case, HERE is the download page. It requires LSB 4.0, so if you don't have 4.0, you will first need to get the required LSB from http://www.linuxbase.or/download/

It will never happen, I'm afraid. The news reports were misleading. All the FCC was calling for was open spectrum to allow business or other entities to buy spectrum to build out super WiFi networks.

Along the lines of what you mentioned - worries about data security are still the biggest hurtle. I can certainly understand that, particularly with respect to mission critical applications/data.

Definitely. Aside from the practical applied uses of mathematics, it teaches an ordered, methodical and logical approach to problem solving, which directly applies to challenges of programing. I think there is a reason you see relatively few programmers with English degrees.

The International Telecommunications Union meeting in Dubai has some people freaking out, with commentators on both the left and right decrying the death of the open internet. Fox News even went so far as to warn that "the future of freedom in the 21st century" is at stake. How much of this doom and gloom is legitimate?

You can download Windows Media Center for free (not for much longer though) to get DVD playback.  There were some other alternative listed in a short article here on IT World not too long ago.  What I would be careful of is spammers offering you a DVD player at a hefty price.  Try one of the options listed in the article.

  My first rule is no audio or video that auto-plays.  I just hate that personally, and I think it drives a percentage of your traffic away.  That percentage is probably small, but there I doubt there is anyone who decides to stay on the site because of it, so there is nothing positive that comes of it. 

I like to think of myself as being pretty pro-privacy. As a user of quite a few Google services (gmail, maps, search, play, youtube, etc,) I signed up right away when Google made a monthly activity report available to show how Google was tracking me. So I looked at it the 1st month, glanced at it on month 2, and have deleted it ever since.

I'm not sure about all of the differences, but there are certainly enough to warrant waiting for Windows 8.  Remember that RT was designed to run on the kind of ARM chips that smartphones use.  There are quite a few applications that Windows RT cannot run, like anything but the newest versions of Office.