It's really about all the un-dead web apps/sites. Blame IE all you want. But it's the devs/companies who wrote the sites, or failed to upgrade them as the world moved on.

We're talking about custom corporate web apps here, folks. It doesn't matter if your web app runs perfectly on Mozilla/Netscape/Opara, etc. If your corporate IT standards mandate that all web-apps must run on the standard corporate-supported browser then that is what you develop the web apps for. Period. In that situation, back in the 2000 time-frame, the market share of IE in most large companies was 100%.

You go ahead and do all the improving you want to do. Just on your own dime please.

Yea, I don't really remember caring one bit about how uncomfortable the desks were when I was in school. We don't need to be finding ways to spend more school money right now.

Everybody is assuming that this will compete with Apple. Why, exactly? Apple's got a $60 billion cash stash. They bought Liquid Metal. They can simply buy Casio (or just this technology). Liquid Metal + 4.8" Super Retina = iPhone 5.

I want the inflatable aircraft carrier!

Yep. Let's name this bill the "Reform and Transparency In Telecom" bill. CNN said this will protect us somehow, and it has the word 'transparency' in it. Ooh! It has the word 'reform' in it too. This has got to be good stuff! I vote Yes! Maybe I'll read the bill after it passes to see what goodies I can expect to get.

Yea, they were doing so well with adding the word "Reform" to get bills passed for anything they wanted to take over. Why didn't they just go for "Internet Safety Reform Act". No one reads these 2000+ page bills they pass these days anyway. Nobody would have ever noticed the paragraph in there about the Prezzy's Internet kill switch. They must have let an intern head up this bill. The real pros would never have been so up front with us.

LightPeak is a buzz word. That's it. It's light years away from actually showing up on devices in your local Best Buy. Far from making USB 3.0 obsolete.

People will grow up and learn that stupidity has consequences. Then train their kids to live productive giving lives instead of wasting their youth on idleness and pointlessly looking for lines to color outside of just to prove they are different.

Instead of planning on changing your name when you grow up you can choose be responsible instead.

We need more Federal oversight of screen capture capability. Let's pass a new Citizen's Transportation Privacy Reform Act that makes it unlawful to sell keyboards with a 'Print Scrn' button. Then we create a new Single Seller Keyboard agency that makes it unlawful for anybody to purchase a keyboard from a private entity. Free government keyboards for all! It's the only way to protect the country from the privacy abuse of the TSA.

The whole point of the Internet is that it is open and free for anyone to use however they choose. That includes Comcast. If their business model includes packet shaping for performance reasons then they should have the right to do that.

Why does everybody think the solution is to make more laws? To have more regulation?

Screw the FCC. Screw the local governments who give Comcast a monopolistic utility-like permit in most areas and limit people's options.

How come no company has the freedom to make their own business decisions anymore (and live or die by them)? America is no longer a free country, folks. America is no longer worth being proud of. We're no different than Canada or any other European country. Over-regulated and given a controlled short list of options (usually just 1). So much for the notion having a competitive marketplace in the USA.

Apple is the authority on user experiences. Apparently Jobs' research has proven to him that Mac users will love having functionality disabled while they are forced to watch a super-cool ad. After all, people who buy Macs use them for dicking around on the Internet anyway. Slashdot should adopt Apple's new philosophy. Force Moderators who are dicking around on Slashdot with their Safari browser to watch a cool 30 second ad before being allowed mod down Apple bashing trolls.

Wow, the logical next step for these annoyed Mac users will be for them to ditch OSX and switch to Open Source Linux?

This isn't a bug. It's a new feature that makes it even easier to put your iPhone into airplane mode.