If Android could inherit much of what makes WebOS great, I would be ecstatic!

But you only ever need ONE COOKIE, and it only needs to be a nice little session ID. Imagine that. If you are sending data back and forth via cookies, you are doing it wrong.

Of course, HTTP allowed us to use a single program to access all kinds of content. Seems with phones, we are going back to the model of writing a client for every thing you want to do. Just that it all uses the same port to do it now.

Being the guy who has to say no sucks. Worse if you have none of the authority and all of the responsibility when things go to poo.

But it didn't survive the market well.

It was called WebOS. Some people still cling to it, but it's a dead platform.

Didn't like the way things looked or behaved in any app? It's all CSS and Javascript. Patch it. Patching WebOS was a very nice, elegant, and easy way to customise the phone.

The nexus 4 is $300, works great on straight talk and AT&T GoPhone plan. The latter gives me amazing reception everywhere I go, but they cap your data at 2GB/month. I've just learned to download podcasts at home rather than stream all the time.

There's also priority based on ease of fix or mitigation. If you can mitigate a problem and then fix the core of it later, that should be done. This is nothing but basic risk management that any security or system administration professional already does.

Business methods should not be patentable, nor should software. Period.

Only if you consider a nice platform being poisoned by that software winning.

A shame what happened there.

They didn't. It's a great movie. Go see it. I'm going to go see it again, but in IMAX this time.

Maybe as a deterrent, but a random search is as likely to miss someone as it is to catch them. As an analogy, I think I'll only drop 50% of things on my firewall by things trying to get to restricted subnets. Should work just fine, right?

As much as people scream 'PROFILING!!", wouldn't it be better to hire competent screeners who know what suspicious behaviors, bag types, other triggers, etc to look for?

Oh, that doesn't send the money to the contracting company that gave the politician all of those campaign contributions. My bad.

For dangerous attachment types, you can quarantine them using MimeDefang. Then you provide a link for download after X days (notifying the recipient of the mandatory quarantine time), and a procedure for the helpdesk to pre-release 'known good/expected' documents. While in the quarantine area, you can do whatever you like to it ... scan for viruses, convert to another format, etc.

Netsol makes it difficult to add your own DNS records for your domain. So, I never pursued it. Regretting that now.

... is a big part of the problem.

You want it privatized? Force them to compete. No more employer-provided healthcare to drive up costs for those of us who would rather shop on our own. I don't have employer-provided car insurance, yet the majority of the mileage on my car is from going to and from work. Decouple healthcare from your job. Let us shop for the health insurance that best meets our own needs.

Or satellite orbital mechanics. Oddly enough, way back when, I had my AHA!!! moment in how to do 3d computer graphics (it was a hobby, this was in the time of future crew, renaissance, etc) when I took a spaceflight dynamics class. Yup, rotating and translating, to include 3d equations of motion and acceleration for spaceflight are EXACTLY the same thing you do to render the stuff on a computer (except you have to add the perspective, 2d screen and all that).