But using YouTube's open standard it was working on their devices. Its just that Google is insisting that Microsoft lives to a standard that other platforms (Android and iOS) don't. MS has a solid class action lawsuit on this one.

I'm pushing a few bucks towards the project this afternoon. It looks very promising.

My father in-law has a large backyard. To keep the light where he wants it he by using rope lighting. For the flood prone areas he'll use clear plastic tubes on some custom made stakes to elevate the lights and keep rope straight. The stakes aren't 3d printed. They're just rob iron bent into the shapes wanted and painted black to stop the rust.

I'n my opinion it was these things in this order:

1. Locked down OS. Windows is fairly open. RT was a locked down mess. If you wanted Android then make Android. Not Windows Locked-out edition with all the stuff we liked from past Windows blocked.
2. The Windows 8 look. Again if you would have called it Window Mobile edition people would have been more willing to try it as a, well mobile platform. But instead you made a carbon copy of the Windows 8 interface that everyone hates and marketed it as such.
3. Requirements/Price - Because of the hardware requirements and the 'Microsoft Tax' it pushed the price of these devices into the iPad with produced a...
4. Lack of good software - Its new, you practically had to buy a new version Visual Studio to build for it and you had to go through a certification nightmare to get your app on the store. BTW: Where the heck is a good version of Office or the game I can play on other tablets? Why is the #1-5 most downloaded app a replace for the Start Button.

ARM architecture needs a slim, functional Windows. This wasn't it.

Right wing nut jobs have been screaming about this for decades. Municipalities keep putting these cameras and phone taps in place in the name of safety, both personal and the unnamed war (crime, terrorism, even poverty.) Unfortunately these measures don't stop crime. At best they help find the person(s) who did the deed a little faster.

If you say we need more cameras, need I remind you of the Boston bombing. It was a low tech pressure cooker bomb in backpack that easily got past heighten surveillance at a marathon. How many days did it take to find the people who did it? It was people that found them, not cameras.

Technology in the wrong hands leads to Orwell's nightmare and the direction of the Nazi nationalism before World War II. Good governments can handle this kind of power. But we've seen major abuses of this kind of power from Bush senior through to Obama's drones in our government. Governments, especial large ones, easily get corrupted or hung up on political correctness so they keep getting re-elected. Stop watching every move I make if I'm not doing anything wrong.

I'll end this rant with two quotes/cliches:

* With great power comes great responsibility
* Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean you're wrong.

Everyone knew when Microsoft bought Skype that they would give up the P2P encryption to the US government. But since most of Microsoft products are built on Skype that means a lot more products are open.

Remember: Typewriter cartridges leave a copy of what was typed on them. I learned this from NCIS and maybe an old episode of Murder She wrote.

http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis/cover-story-998779/

Node is great for small, narrowly focused web apps and quick development. But I find many of the supporting projects to be less then stellar. The lack of a solid IDE that has some sort of optimizer bother me. Also, JavaScript is an interpreted language which by it nature has speed issues.

What I'm saying for long term support you'll need to roll most of your own code. Pulling in external modules may be slow because of the lack compiled code. Don't expect much from third party libraries. I've only been able to get one to work as advertised. And most of the advanced third party libraries require Python. Which begs the question: why am I using Node.JS when I could be using Python instead?

If the government was truly about capitalism them we wouldn't be into Obamacare at all. If someone else can do the same job cheaper, use them instead. Deregulate so companies can make it cheaper over here then a third world country that doesn't even come close to the current health care we offer here.