Everything Google is doing now was done by a competitor before Google started doing it. Altavista, mapquest, hotmail, etc.

Its funny that Schmidt mentions that "Video didn't kill the radio star." Videos were a good promotion outlet for music, but the Internet effectively killed music videos on television.

Google news is an aggregation of news from various media outlet's websites. Its not going to kill newspapers, but Google news and Internet news in general is conditioning people to expect to get news for free.

In the past, newspapers were subsidized by advertising and subscribers. Unfortunately, Internet advertising is not nearly has effective as print. Sure, ads can be targeted to specific audiences, but they can be blocked, and many savvy Internet users are conditioned to ignore advertisements. Newspaper advertisements are unavoidable, and the randomly placed.

So if people expect to get news for free and the advertising is ineffective, tell me how the Internet and e-readers lead to a promising future for newspapers?

Its not about Malware, its about security risks in general. If a user installs an FTP server, thats a huge security risk. A signature on the package does nothing to negate the risk.

I really don't understand the basis for this move. From a desktop usability perspective, having the gui password prompt for an elevated privilege such as a package install works fine. Its seemless in Linux and OSX. Not prompting for authentication for signed package installs is insanely insecure and borderline insane.

Comcast will probably use the growth of FIOS as the excuse for why the merger should be passed.

It does validate some of my suspicions about the issues AT&T has been having. A lot of people seem to think that an Apple switch to Verizon would be some magic fix-all for the iphone, but I think any provider is going to have a lot of trouble meeting the usage demand of millions of iphone users.

I watch Netflix on my Tivo.

When you can sell the game on amazon.com for much more money?

US taxpayers, most of which do not ride trains, do not want to pay for fancy trains they will never ride. Its a lot easier to spend trillions on public works projects in a totalitarian regime like China.

Its not just marketing, it being able to purchase products online at the actual price. You can't just login to sun.com and buy servers via a online portal with a corporate discount like Dell or HP. You have to talk with a rep to get the actual real price, not the phony MSRP price.

I'm sorry, but how did this make to the front page? The selections on the list are wrong or obvious, but the list itself is a freaking flash slideshow with only 1 item per slide! The editors need to do their jobs.

No, javaws was not in previous versions of the 64bit JVM.