If you take the time to analyse a modern page, you'll see that the ads usually represent a relatively small chunk.

What really slows the pages down is over reliance on javascript frameworks. Pages that use both jquery and another framework such as scriptaculous are not uncommon. What's worse is that the developers often use these libraries for trivial effects, stuff that can easily done directly in javascript. Then most pages have scripts for at least 3-4 social media sites (Facebook Like box, Twitter counter, G+ counter, etc.), live tweet box, 5-8 different css files...

And then they spend a fortune on bandwidth, CDN services and faster servers, when by optimizing content they'd get more performance.

You can overcome emotion with information and education, otherwise we'd all still be living in caves fearing that the sky might fall.
Presenting the information effectively, that's the trick.

Thanks for the link. It's pretty clear:

Due to negative publicity about this vaccine, the use of the pertussis vaccine decreased in many areas of the world. For example, in Japan, children stopped receiving the pertussis vaccine by 1975. In the three years before the vaccine was discontinued, there were 400 cases of pertussis and 10 deaths from pertussis. In the three years after the pertussis vaccine was discontinued, there were 13,000 cases of pertussis and 113 deaths from pertussis! It should be noted that although the side effects of the old pertussis vaccine were high, no child ever died from pertussis vaccine.

How many babies were hospitalized or died because of the pertussis vaccination during the same period?

Personally I am not afraid of vaccines for me or my children. A clear comparison in health issues and risks between vaccinated vs. non-vaccinated children should (hopefully) clear the whole controversy.

They should do that only when Wallet is available in all countries. Google Wallet is not available in my country, I cannot receive payments so I HAVE TO rely on Paypal for this.

My app is available on Apple's AppStore, Blackberry's AppWorld, Amazon, Intel AppUp and Samsung's store and they all can send payments. It's just Google who doesn't. Even stranger is that they DO make payments to my country in the AdSense program, I just don't understand why they don't do this for apps on the Chrome Webstore or Google Play.

Transnistria is basically a haven for organized crime. A "republic" with virtually no international recognition, a very small economy and ties with international arm dealers.

The issue is not Flash games but tricking the users to download a trojan. I could have happen with HTML5 games as well or anything else.

The solution: have a separate non-admin account for kids.

Yes, parent is correct. We were required by law to register any typewriter with the police. Failure to comply was a major offense, with prison time and if you were flagged as threat to the system you could end up in a forced labor camp (e.g. the infamous "Danube-Black Sea Canal"). Nasty memories and it's incredible how people don't learn from history.

Not to troll or anything, but that's all they could come up with? Where's Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos - representatives of big companies that the congressmen can actually listen to?

OK, I'm a software developer and graphic designer. I know all about GPL and Creative Commons and I released plenty of my stuff under open and proprietary licenses as well.

However, when I buy or download an app (in "consumer mode"), I simply don't care about its license. What matters if it works as advertised, if it contains malware and if it's fun (for games). That's it. I couldn't care less if, say, "Smart Tools" is GPL v3 or Apache or proprietary. It does the job. 99.999% people think the same.

If you want to have only open source software on your tablet or phone, pat yourself on the back, you're so special.

I develop software for tablets (iPad, Playbook, Android) so I have quite a few. I tested them myself and I can compare them first hand.

The best Android tablets right now are Asus Transformer and Samsung Galaxy Tab. I would say that the Tabs have better build quality than Transformers, personally I like TouchWiz and I the Tab 8.9 tablet is just right - small and light enough to be easy to carry yet more comfortable than a 7".

Been there, done that.
My email archive dates back to 1995. Over the years I've been using Pine, Eudora, Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator, Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail.

I converted everything to EML. It's a simple format, easy to read and parse, recognized by the OS. With a simple script I renamed each file to YYYYMMDD-From-Subject.eml, so now it's accessible any way I like, gleaming at the file name, or by searching the contents (Windows 7 indexes EML files).

Writing a script to strip attachments is trivial compared to mbox.

The reasons I prefer email for business are:
- it forces people to organize ideas somewhat instead of babbling around.
- it leaves a trail. There's no argument that someone requested X instead of Y for product Z.
- it can be forwarded, shared and printed.

I have clients that insist on using Skype. They spend 30-40 minutes discussing stuff that could be summarized in an one-paragraph email. During all the talk I have to keep notes, then organize the items discussed and make a doc that I send back to the client asking if they're sure this is what they wanted and then share it with my team. Overall I don't save time.

I can't speak for anybody else, but for ME email is still the preferred business communication tool.

Too much paranoia on your part. The things they show at MAX tend to become part of the next software iteration, although usually the UI is completely different. Everything I've seen in the past 2-3 years has materialized one way or another.

Unblurring is not a new idea, the tough part is (was?) figuring out the deconvolution kernel.

If bluetooth transfer is available only between two Apple devices, it won't mean much.
I actually hate this attitude.

Why can't I take a photo with my Blackberry and transfer it to my iPad? Why can't I download a pdf on the iPad and transfer it to my Playbook via bluetooth?
There's no technical reason why I could not transfer files and settings (such as calendar and address book entries between an Apple device and any other phone). This is old tech.

I managed to find a way to transfer files via ftp, making the iPad an ftp server and connecting with the playbook/torch as a client but this obviously requires a wifi connection and of course I can't transfer photos or music from the ipad this way.