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[Windows] almost never get infections of any kind, I believe because the bad guys see Windows huge market share and figure the ROI is much higher targeting billion plus Windows machines in the world.

Burglars are lazy by definition. They break into the houses that are easiest to break in – first. Then they go after the hard ones. It is the ease that is the main factor, not the quantity…

Google indexes newspapers … but most “newspapers” these days carry very little real news … most of what they carry is either opinion pieces, seeking to justify one political view or another, or else – well reality TV level articles. How many people here look at the Google News page and find more than one or two links to anything or real interest? The real news is not carried on Google News but instead by small US papers like Mother Jones and The Nation, and non-US papers … and, of course, real opinion pieces from people like Robert.

Losing the London Times and the Wall Street Journal from Google is not a big loss – Murdoch has basically gutted both papers at the Internet level of any real reporting in his search for the same level of exposure that Google offers everyone. Google and Murdoch both seek eyeballs – without worrying too much is the eyeballs are connected to anything. My guess is that Murdock is probably right – pulling his papers out of Google will not change his core readership much and let’s face it, the inability of newspapers to monetize Internet news viewers has been a big factor in their current sorry state. What’s happening here is that Murdoch has probably noticed that the people who pay for his papers aren’t reading the stuff that Google is indexing.

What Murdoch (and other newspapers) need to do is find a way to get paying readers back again – publishing on paper is expensive compared to publishing on the Internet yet paper monetizes the news in a way the the Internet does not. In the end it’s all about controlling who reads the news and knowing who reads the news – both generate income … and Google and the Internet are not helping them do this.

That A&P store (as described in the referenced book) was/became dirty and drab.

One block away in a town of 15k, a local grocer built a “food land” market, with “choice”, bright decor, variety, flowers, beer & wine, photomurals, etc. That standalone INDEPENDENT store is STILL there, but the A&P decayed and blew away four decades ago.

Bob: Rejection of mall & anchor store concept? Nope, that’s not the real reason. A&P in nearby college small city went into a strip mall, NAKED fluorescent lights, drab, dirty, black paint, unchanged product range, just BIGGER & CHEAPER. Store closed in a few years.