MAC address comes to mind, though of course it can be spoofed.

It's not a "rich guys pay lots of money to fight other rich guys to avoid paying taxes" issue.

It's an initiative created to implement, for the first time, a state income tax in a state that has fought hard many times against having one -- A state that has created alternate taxation schemes to make up for the 'lost' revenue over the years. But don't worry! It only applies to the rich! Bill Gates Senior would never tax 'normal' people! Unfortunately, 2 years after being implemented, the legislature can amend the tax rate any time they want with a simple majority vote.

oh, well in that case... .... grow up.

Because speed limits are retarded, have nothing to do with public safety, are never re-evaluated, the agents who enforce them have little accountability, and if everyone drove the speed limit we'd have MASSIVE knots in traffic.

You "just obey the speed law" types need to realize that about 1% of the population agrees with you and just move on. Or find an Apple thread to post the insightful "I don't like Apple products!#%" comment.

"Early 1990s," huh? IE wasn't even *released* until 1995.

Browser wars were more 97 on.

"The Road Ahead" (November 1995) was Bill Gates figuring out that this whole Internet thing might catch on.

Safari + ClickToFlash = done.

Tabbed applications are a crutch for those who use broken window managers. This task should not be handled (inevitably in functionally and cosmetically different ways) by applications.

Um, I think you've got it backwards. The advertisers are paying the bill for the content you're viewing.

Not that I have a moral issue with ad-blocking; quite the opposite. I just think it's silly that you're expecting to be reimbursed for your ad downloads. The CONTENT is the reimbursement.

yes. actually it's ludicrous to expect every person on the internet to know any one piece of information. especially something that's intentionally hidden from the user.

... except the 3G model will have a plastic patch for the cell radio.

Apply this same logic to sites that work in IE but not Firefox.

I hope you're shorting Apple stock, because otherwise you look like a total moron for having such a vested interest in a product failing.

Yes. That's why both the subject and the summary mention Massachusetts. It's a state. You may have heard of it. It is part of the United States of America.

So don't pay it. My apartment tried to raise their rent by ~180/mo on me in May '09. I told them to piss up a rope. They instead lowered it by ~260/mo.

Just because they're telling you to pay more doesn't mean they aren't trying to screw you. Or, more likely, trying to screw you in order to make up what they're losing on the smarter tenants who are all paying less.

I run Click2Flash. The *only* useful implementation of Flash I ever see is for videos. So, go to Youtube, click on video, it works.

All the other Flash I run across in my daily browsing is screaming obnoxious ads.

Oh, and maybe a weird flash photo gallery on a newspaper site once a month.

Yes, it is a slight drawback that the iPad does not do Flash. Very slight.