Oh, believe me, they use that complaint here also.

I think the law they uses against anyone falsely accusing someone of rape is a generic law for making false charges to the police, it is not a specific law against false rape charges.

Of course this does not happen very often, precisely for the reasons you stated in your post. But surprisingly often the woman comes clean on the issue when the police starts picking her story to pieces. Most people are terrible at lying and the police have some training to detect flaws in peoples stories.

However I seriously doubt many get 1-2 years in prison, that sounds more like the maximum penalty for such a crime. I would guess most get away with 1-3 months jail-time or just a fine depending on how quickly she confess (if at all) and how much time and effort the police wasted on the issue.

Perhaps because I had not such good experiences with Microsoft and open standards in the past?

But at least that link seems very promising, then the only hurdle will be to wait and wait and wait for everyone to upgrade to IE9 or better.

And of course they have to actually finish the HTML5 standard first so we would probably be speaking of IE10 or higher, HTML5 is far from complete yet and in no means a viable Flash replacement for all projects.

There is a reason for my 3-5 year time-line and in some regards it is probably overly optimistic. After all we are still supporting IE6 for some customers.

I guess it depends on what your doing.

My company is writing interactive 3D-viewers, Flash on a hand-held just wont cut it.

Hell, Flash on a full blown computer just barely cuts it.

But for 95% of all other cases I concur. :-)

In the long run, maybe.

It will all depend on whether Microsoft will support it properly in their future web browsers, they might say their committed to supporting all kinds of standards right now, but I have heard that from them before, so I want hold my breath.

If you actually need to make something for a paying customer right now then unfortunately Flash is very often the correct (or even the only) choice right now. Silverlight may be good enough or even better in many respects but does not come anywhere near the reach of Flash. Flash is basically everywhere. The only exception is hand-held devices but on those I would in fact agree with Steve Jobs, it is usually better to make the effort to create a native version.

Really! I do wish html5 was ready and available everywhere, but it is not. Maybe in 3 to 5 years when it has reached something like 50% of the browsers 'out there'. Right now it is just a toy to play with to get a glimpse of what the future may behold.

This does not mean I disagree with the ideas behind HTML5 or open standards, by all means it would be perfect if I could use it in my projects right now. But my customers actually require something that would run on (at least) 95% of all Internet connected computers without the user installing anything Flash meats that criteria, Silverlight does not and HTML5 does not even show up on the radar yet.

At least there is some hope that the future will be brighter. :-)

Bah, old hat Trolling. I read the exact same story almost 10 years ago. It was not true then and is not true now.

Not even a nice try.

There is all the Shakespeare that was ever written and an infinite number that was never written.

Unfortunately it might take for-ever to calculate Pi to enough decimals to find just a fraction of them :-)

He probably meant proton and not photon.

It is perfectly valid mathematically to view anti particles as normal particles traveling backwards in time.

However all that is valid mathematically does not necessarily have a physical manifestation.

If anything, all of this could be mean that our system is quite weird; at least on average.

While we still lack the capability to detect Earth like planets around Sun like sun systems I think it is meaningless to use empirical data to discuss if our own solar system is average or not.

The only planets we can detect are either gas giants and preferably close to their sun or smaller planets around red dwarfs.

Jeezz,

Have you EVER been to a poor third world country?

You think these people have the luxury of choice? That they can walk away and find a better job tomorrow?

Hello! Reality check please...

You and me can do that, these people cannot.

I would certainly hope it does not get to bloody, but I am afraid you will be proven correct.

At least here in northern Europe it got better when we formed labor unions and associated political parties, then we got new laws that protected the workers against the worst abuse. This is about a hundred years ago so not many people remembers it directly anymore, which is widely evident in political discussions today. Sure it can get to far the other way and we end up with ridiculous worker rights like full pension when your 50 and stuff like that. But profit seeking companies will not give their worker fair wages and decent working conditions unless they absolutely have to.

How is this gonna happen in China?

Correct me if I am wrong, but is it not still a one party state and "workers paradise"?

I do not know the law in his jurisdiction, but here (and almost everywhere else) it would be enough with one (1) share.

Of course you have to foot the bill yourself to travel there.

It cannot be Unobtainium, they already have 6 atoms of it. That was far to easy to be Unobtainium!

Although a temporary one. Sorry, jumped the gun :)

It is already named Ununseptium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununseptium