They obviously ignored how long it takes Chrome to send all your personal information to their "Evil Overlords"(TM Google inc.)

it's true, if all the TV channels funded by advertising disappeared tomorrow, I would barely miss them.

there's a big difference between respectable conservative/republican biased news reporting and commentary and the hate, bile and half-truths spewed by FoxNews. If it weren't for its rabid fans I would have assumed it was parody.

1) accept bribe^H^H^H^H^H donation from corporate backers
2) do their bidding
3) profit!

Until political funding can be prised from the grip of the oligarcy of the rich, that's how it will stay. What's sad is it has been that way so long, hardly anybody perceives it as immoral anymore.

You speak for the young parents who moved there, not for the kids who grow up there.

The kids think it's a hole with nothing to do but drugs and vandalism, and they can't wait to get the hell out. Eventually the place will look like a Florida retirement home, and slowly collapses in on itself.

to further expand on the explanation of the "Private Eye" - "Ed" reference, the satirical articles often go to parodic extremes, traditionally cut short by the intervention of the editor with: "that's enough (insert meme here) - Ed"

if all the candidates are already bought and paid for by corporate interests, then the election is a sham, just like in single party states. The single party in US elections is the Corporate Party, which seeks to hide its own existence.

"There are still lots of users who unwittingly run Java applications"

If you ask these users what applications are slow, clunky and unresponsive, they will most likely identify the Java ones.

I agree - M$ tried to make IE7 look funky, but ended up with a user-unfriendly layout.

Opera may not have the best looks, but easily wins on the best usuability.

"since 2004 and was 98% complete" so only another 5 years development to go...

the tool in my sig has a FileAid style data editor, using COBOL definitions. It's ok if you avoid the platform specific formats, although it handles the 'endians issue.

no, it is in their interest to drag the debacle through the courts for as long as possible, at least until SCOTUS tells the government "what the the were you thinking, haven't you read the constitution?".