That just means Google is now operating in exactly the same manner that Microsoft used to be when they had dominance over consumer device operating systems. Google now has dominance in the mobile market with Android, and is using that to shove Chrome down people's throats. Personally, the first thing I do with any new phone is download Firefox, just like I did (and still do) with new computers. As the statistics show, though, the vast majority of people don't bother to do that so whatever is the default is what they use. The right and fair thing to do would be to stop them from abusing their monopoly power by offering a choice of browsers at time of install, and not favor their own browser in any way. That would have been the thing to force MS to do as well back when they were being sued for abuse of monopoly power after taking down Netscape with the same tactic. Unfortunately, it didn't happen then and it isn't happening now either. So, Google will continue to dominate the market unless and until some other highly disruptive technology comes along to unseat the current smartphone market and gives another player a chance to enter and eventually dominate the market in a similar fashion.

They lost browsers completely
They lost server operating systems
They are a distant second in cloud

Business desktop is not really a growth area.
There's a pretty vibrant OS marketplace across all devices. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

A duopoly is by definition not a monopoly.
And they are hardly preventing other entrants into the office productivity marketplace.
And it's likely best for all of us if there is standardization in office productivity suites, especially when competition is keeping the prices reasonable. I don't want to go back to trying to import WingZ spreadsheets and Harvard Graphics charts into Wordstar documents.

And what do they have a monopoly on?

More like, in 1994 they were being sued for being a monopoly.
It seems useful to mention your competition when the government is suing you for being a monopoly.

Eliza helped me through some serious shit back in the day.

*1980s and early 1990s. But yes, excellent series.

I think it is just bad UI.

It's like UI roulette.

It can be figured out, but is horribly non-intuitive. Every choice is a guess.

Agreed.

So many people, just sitting and scrolling.

My kids handle it better than the other adults around me - who are happily scrolling, stationary, for hours and hours.

Eh.

I carry an extra 30 kg everywhere I go. I do ok.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/23/whos-behind-group-police-say-submitted-fraudulent-voter-registration-forms/90778006/

"the group has submitted about 40,000 registration forms" ... "at least 10 of the group's voter registration forms from Marion and Hendricks counties contained fraudulent information. Local election officials said some of the group's forms were missing key information, such as Social Security numbers and birth dates."

So, 10 out of 40000 had missing info.

I am underwhelmed.

This isn't passing itself off as the very sought-after Power Rangers short movie everyone's dying to buy; this is a new work that takes the premise of an old work and does something new, with criticism about the whole "child soldier" angle.

Totally fair use.

It's a single fool with a gun, not a group.

But J-Law is not an anonymous nobody that only a very small number of people want to see naked.

She is not most users, she's a special case. Her risk is not the same, she's much more visible, much more desired.

It's not just a sample of random numbers, there's value attached to these images, and the value of most user's images is much lower than the value of those who are professionally attractive. Something of greater value is obviously at a greater risk of unauthorized access than something of average value.

The LaSalle Heights Disaster occurred in the early morning of March 1, 1965 in the city of LaSalle, Quebec when a gas line explosion destroyed a number of low-cost housing units. In all, 28 people lost their lives, 39 were injured and 200 left homeless. Most of the casualties were women and children because many men had left for work. The casualties might have been higher had it not been the first of the month when many men left earlier than usual to pay their monthly rent at the rental office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

I agree that bitcoin is built to be scarce, and therefore valuable, but that sort of thing is the opposite of what you want in a currency. If the currency constantly increases in value, then the best option is to obtain as much as possible and stuff it under the mattress. Only an inflationary currency encourages investment, because you actually lose money by hoarding it rather than investing it. If everyone hoards the stuff instead of spending it, it becomes useless as a medium of exchange.