The house counterpart is worded a bit more broadly. It would extend the provisions described to cover text based messages as well.

You know, that might actually be *more* accessible than trying to have the user code up the information in HTML, since whatever HTML a user like that produces is probably going be unparseable in anything other than IE6.

%s/right/standards compliant/g

Does that sit better?

The information isn't classified. It stopped being classified the moment that first printing was made. See New York Times vs. United States.

What if your nation is engaged in an activity that's counterproductive or one that violates human rights? In a situation like that it is the duty of every citizen to petition the government until it changes its ways.

I do not think the publisher is being a good citizen. I think the publisher is reacting to pressure being placed on it by the national security apparatus and is helping the government cover up its incompetence. All this ensures is that the errors and incompetents are allowed more time to fester and compound, hurting our effort in Afghanistan even more.

I don't know that Flash comes "pre-installed" per se, but most mainstream browsers (like IE and Firefox) make it very easy and unobtrusive to install Flash. So in practice, there's not a lot of difference between the person that installs Flash and the person who has it pre-installed.

He's not. In his (and therefore Apple Computer Inc.'s) opinion, Flash is outdated and is inappropriate for mobile platforms. There's no force that's pushing people to use (or not use) Flash. The only thing is the same fanboy-ism and bandwagon following that you see everywhere else in this industry.

That said, I still disagree with the article. You can't justify claims about the future by pointing to snapshot figures. Sure, Flash has 97%+ market share *right* *now*. But, then again, Internet Explorer had 90% of the browser market share when IE5 was riding high. Microsoft's inattention (to the point of dissolving the IE team) led to that lead being erased in a matter of a few years. If Flash doesn't improve its performance on mobile devices, it could find itself in the same position as IE.

Square Enix used to be in that list. Lately, though, the Final Fantasy series has dropped to Madden levels in terms of originality and innovation. Sure, the plot is different in every game, and the graphics get a bump up, but the gameplay mechanics have consistently been different combinations of the mechanics from Final Fantasies 6, 7, 8, and (to some extent) 9.

From the above, I've concluded that Square Enix jumped the shark around 1999, right before the launch of Final Fantasy IX. Every title after that game has been the same ingredients, just mixed in different ways.

Do you have kids? I know that many of my co-workers complain that their kids won't communicate with them via any form but text messages. So if you're the parents of one of those teens that sends more than 100 text messages per day, I'd imagine that your text message numbers are higher than average as well.

That is absolutely and utterly false. I've met kids my age (mid-twenties) who have become flustered because the default browser on my laptop wasn't IE. Just because they know enough to post on Facebook doesn't mean they know enough to survive a change in their operating system. Heck, even power users can be flustered by the fact that there aren't "drives" any more on Linux. They're used to seeing C: or D: to indicate which drive they're currently operating on. The concept of having a unified filesystem where different drives and partitions can be mounted to various directories seemingly at will flustered me at first. However, I was self motivated, and kept trying until I understood how the filesystem worked. The average Windows power user isn't going to be that motivated.

The Linux 'brand' has been so tarnished by this migration that its impossible to rescue. Migrating to Windows 7 won't fix their issues, but it will give them a new scapegoat.

The state Department of Homeland Security is a "fusion center" serving to "facilitate" cooperation between state and federal authorities. Given that, I wouldn't rule out federal involvement.

There's a big difference in the problem. Namely, its possible to work at a coarser level of granularity when dealing with galaxies. You might not be able to simulate individual stars, but you can simulate star clusters and the clumps of dark matter to get approximations. With the brain simulation, its not possible to abstract away as much detail, hence the higher hardware requirements.