WebKit, CUPS, mDNS, OpenCL, HTML5, to name a few.

The Unix talk command also sent conversations character-by-character. This was made in the 70s.

You do realize you're typing this on the Internet, which came from ARPANET, which was a military project funded by the government, right?

Except Google is already completely behind h.264 and would get a lot of bad rep if they switched "just because"

No, the bad tire becomes the spare when it is replaced.

Microsoft should absoultely take none of the blame for this. PowerPoint is a tool that does have it's useful purposes sometimes. For example, it's absolutely great for printing shipping labels or making last-minute valentine's day cards.

It's working fine for me. It might be time to panic.

Why not just run Windows raw, without any protection? Especially if it's just a "gaming system," just run everything under a really limited user account and practice good judgement. Oh, and use noscript in firefox.

I thought you'd be linking to "Habla Con Ella". It's a Spanish film about this sort of thing. It actually is the inspiration for the American remake, Vanilla Sky. Both really good movies, I'd recommend them both.

+1 Nostalgia

Seriously, why doesn't Sony just start leasing their consoles instead of selling them? Just pay $20 a month. If it breaks, you get a replacement at no charge. If you do anything they don't want you to do, they can argue that it was never *yours* to begin with. Kind of how I can't hack around with my cable modem because it's technically not mine.

We discuss it in kilograms instead of pounds, though, so they usually take it as a compliment.

You mean like defaults?

Everything you said sounds like it can just be scripted, not some sort of fundamental shift in the way we think about firewalls. The beauty of the Unix philosophy (do one thing and do it well) is that it works at an almost intuitive level. The more complexity you layer on at the base level, the less clear things become for someone trying to understand it.