It's because we actually say the 'C' in 'facto'.

But it seems it will be unified: its use will be optional. Which means we'll all probably continue to write as we do now. Also, it'll be valid to either write 'acadêmico' and 'académico', 'oxigênio' and 'oxigénio', etc.

"the particles measure less than 0.25 mm across"; so how the hell am I supposed to turn that into my epic sword?

It's that blasted media franchising culture again, isn't it! CSI, great. CIS-Miami, wall to wall sunglass gestures. CSI NY, ghastly. MPEG, lovely. MPEG-LA, rubbish. And you just know the next one's going to be MPEG-Hawaii or something equally horrible.

That would be incorrect they are put forward by the three main parties.

To be honest I don't trust the cloud for anything more than "instant on" extra processing/serving power on a when-available/as-needed basis, and nothing more. I let Google host my personal email, but only because it genuinely isn't worth the effort to me to host my own mail, especially since I always have other mail accounts and I do actually manage the important ones like my work mail. Still, I'm just not inclined to trust a remotely managed, highly virtualized service with anything either truly important just as easily done with local, dedicated equipment. The outages on mobile devices in the last few years like the T-Mo Sidekick and Blackberries, as well as the occasional service outage even from major providers like Google.

In the end run I want my phone to have it's own local OS and storage, separate e-mail, and I will never trust anything truly important, work related or otherwise sensitive to cloud-based services, especially not with the sole copy. I know the average Google employee isn't ever going to bother with reading my e-mail or Google docs, but it's not the average employee I worry about, or even employee's at all.

Keep in mind what a cloud is: a big, fluffy, floating thing off in the distance that looks solid but is in fact nothing more than vapor, and subject to the whims of the weather.

Um, no.

Ascii, you can open up in anything and read it.

you can't with a pdf.

the UK government is looking to be at risk of getting a hung or coalition government.

Runaway recursion near line 2. Bailing out...

I don't know the numbers off the top of my head, but I would suspect not. You can have orbits higher than geosync (think the moon), so you would need to apply a lot of energy to make the satellite leave orbit entirely.

Edit: (well not really, but Preview to the rescue ;)
Actually, it seems you are kind of on the right track though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_orbit Apply energy to push it into a higher orbit and it will still be in orbit, though in an orbit where it is far less likely to cause harm.

I didn't see anyone paying for namespace in p2p networks or on I2P/FreeNet/etc., maybe we don't need to have parent domains?

And you do realize that domains like .biz, .info, .jobs, and all those new weird domain were only created because they knew every company wouldn't risk not registering their name everywhere they could and that would give them a huge revenue source? Centralized political corruption indeed...

And I'm paying already to get connected, everything should be "intelligence at the border", I'm paying by offering others to use my CPU/RAM/Storage.
Do we really need Facebook/Google to centralize the net when we could all do it?

There is such of waste of computer resource!
And while we're at it, i wish more publicly owned fiber were built as a fair tunnel for ISPs to compete.

It's sad that the biggest super computer on earth are botnets, I just wish it was actually a voluntary citizen network instead...

Perhaps you should read what I was replying to before you start flaming me.

I was merely replying to the general sentiment here that 'oh noez! the networks are compromised!!!111'

Anyone with half a brain knows that any effective security posture is done with defense in depth on the perimeter along with good endpoint security and user awareness.

( further reading for the interested http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/its-all-about-endpoints )

It's not as much hate as disdain. And of course they don't want people to write native iPhone apps in Flash - because it still lacks most functions of the existing iPhone OS, let alone any of the new ones announced for 4.0. If you want to lock yourself into a development environment for a multi-touch device that doesn't even have that can't even handle gestures yet, and that doesn't support most of the features of your OS, you can write your Android apps with Flash - I heard that a year after it was first announced, it should be here real soon now.

It's quite entertaining that you want to sell me the lowest common denominator across many devices as the best tool for a specific one.

Well, not really. Apple's legal team made sure they were the 'only innovator' in the early GUI days, but that was it for that period. They capitalized on the music biz with their MP3 player at the right time and in a slick way.

But they abandoned the PDA right when it was becoming a big market, and it remained a rather rich market for a decade without them.

Their cellphone just doesn't matter. It's got lots of hype behind it, but it's one of the crowd.

Yeah--but look at 11 random people around you. Do you honestly think there are enough non-sheep among them to stand up against tyranny?

You sir, are a Philistine.

Agreed--if they did something wrong, the legal system needs to deal with them. I'm not defending theft. What I am defending is the endless stream of laws the government puts out to help idiots and hinder smart people.