The whole model relies on the userbases illiteracy

Totally agree, and now they grew bold enough to troll a nerd site to sway opinion about this shit to look like a legitimate business model.

The author of that article,
"Ben Cousins has spent his 15 years in the games industry at companies like DeNA, [b]DICE[/b], Sony and Lionhead. Since 2006 he's worked on a total of 10 separate free-to-play games across five different platforms, reaching approximately 50 million users. Follow him on Twitter @benjamincousins."

IMHO, he should be ashamed of himself.

That's not how containers work. You're bound to using the kernel of your host.

You're wrong. That is just 1 or two manifestations of intelligence. There are lots of different intelligence types. How about you open a psychology 101 book and find out about what else there is?

While we're at it, how about you take some acid and find out how petty you are yourself for believing what you wrote in that paragraph.

we enable fast SQL-based analytics in our system

Good that you clarified that. Because, if it's not DDS, it's not really (hard) realtime.

effectively forcing XMPP server admins to lower their security if they want to federate with Google

Just for the Google server, if you use a proper XMPP server (like Prosody, for example).

Beware that many servers on the XMPP network use self-signed or invalid certificates, or even don't support TLS at all (such as gmail.com and all Google-hosted domains). It is possible to make exceptions like this:

-- These hosts are allowed to authenticate via weaker mechanisms, such as dialback:
s2s_insecure_domains = { "gmail.com" }

[Server-to-server XMPP]

XMPP server operators are pushing for a wholly encrypted XMPP network with several test-days, where they'll be flipping the switch to allow only encrypted communication, and the final switch to disallow unencrypted communication on May 19, 2014.
It's going to include SSLv3, unfortunately, but we'll get there.

You'd be far right far more often than wrong.

FTFY.

But Stalin, [yadda yadda] is a national hero in Russia today

Look, asshole, if you don't know what you're talking about, how about you just take a nice cup of shut the fuck up?!
There are idiots everywhere, there are people who consider Hitler a fucking hero, and Snowden a traitor, can you believe that? So what do you wanna do now? Blanket-judge everyone? You don't have a fucking clue about Russia or the Ukraine and proved that by saying:

Go fuck yourself. "Even de Gaulle" EVEN? What are you, some kind of bad joke? Seriously, go troll somewhere else.

I have a doubt that mobile displays and keyboards are anything more than a transition [...] the screen size limitation is probably going to go away

You're right about that. The future is multi-modal.
There's no one "display" or interface. It's ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence all the way.
You walk into another room, your interface roams with you. The computing power comes from the grid next to you, in your house, the bus stop, datacenter, in the mesh network of little devices all around you...
I'm not sure about the role of the phone, or whether it will at all exist. What I do know, is that natural (also, multi-modal) interfaces will take over the keyboard sooner, rather than later.

Anyone else feels like this is going to be a strain on our eyes?