Um...

My favorite example is the A-10, they are shooting for 80 years out of that airframe. And it's still an impressive machine.

...without latency or man-in-the-middle issues. Sorry.

Even better, use Modify Headers and set your X-Forwarded-For to a US IP address (say, 12.13.14.15). You still get a direct connection that way, with latency or man-in-the-middle privacy issues.

Compelling? Unless one of those features is a gun to my head I doubt it.

Nobody ever hated the start menu. They just hated that it was called the start menu. People forgot about the counter-intuitive nomenclature the first time they used it, because the paradigm makes perfect sense.

Just register for a postal vote. There is no restriction on who can do it... I waiting in a queue is for chumps.

The internet might be increasingly "always on" but one cannot say the same thing about the publisher's servers at the other end of the connection.

It's not that I'm not buying the game because I can't cheat. I'm not buying the game because it has been built from the ground up to support a business model that has all the drawbacks of free2play without being free2play.

Cheating in single player games used to be considered a gamer's right before these abusive hand-in-your-pocket monetization schemes were thought up.

I don't know how you can be so comfortable when Congress has shown it's not above meddling with the Internet... and has full intention to do it again. The current situation is dangerously unpredictable - one victory is all they need, and we can't keep winning battles like SOPA forever.

It's plainly obvious that the Internet should not be controlled by any one country. Especially by the US, which has proven itself capable of selling out even it's own interests to please pressure groups. Let me tell you I have less fear of China's influence over the UN then of Hollywood's influence over the US government.

Sorry, but if there must be a central authority I can't think of a better one then the UN. Maybe if the US was a little less afraid of erosion of empire they could share control with the "good" nations through treaties, but honestly I think that's less likely to happen at this point.

If *nix was as popular as Windows it would certainly become a more attractive TARGET for malware, but there is nothing to suggest that the new target would be as viable as the old one. To think otherwise is to believe all operating systems are exactly as secure as each other, which - considering the massive complexity of the systems and their great architectural differences - is just completely absurd.

I believe the point is that if it is sold on the App Store we know it cannot be a stand alone browser by virtue of Apple's store policy.

There *is* a reason they are launching on iOS.

A compromise between Microsoft and Motorola isn't going to help anybody else though is it? It further entrenches patents as an offensive weapon, and the next upstart that comes along and dares to compete with them will be crushed by the unholy alliance.

The British surveillance society meme is not just perpetrated by slashdot and the Daily Mail - the BBC gets in on the action too. According to this report there is one CCTV camera for every 14 people in the country. 4.2 million cameras doesn't sound excessive to you?