I'm not saying I agree with this, but they're not trying to block porn, they're trying to make it opt-in. Buying a newspaper is definitely opt-in.

Performing a search or visiting a website seems pretty opt-in to me. If you turn on your computer and it just starts displaying porn on it's own, it's probably malware and all bets are off anyway.

It's like a dream come true! I'll finally be able to find the sluttiest girl in the room with the compass on my phone!

And considering there are already questions of health and safety of the current machines, higher power, more complicated machines are clearly a great idea. It'll be interesting to see how the public reacts the first time someone gets a radiation burn from a broken or misconfigured machine.

This is a great security model. In fact, in order to keep my home safe I won't allow any devices in that are controlled by an outside third party either.

It seems really pretty dumb to stream media (except when on travel or sharing a few recent photos) from the smallest device you own in terms of storage space, and battery life.

That "except when on travel or sharing a few recent photos" is huge. These are mobile devices after all! Visit your parents, hit a button on your phone and you can pop a video on their TV. Go to a party with a cool song no one's heard, you can play it to the hosts speakers with no cables. AirPlay solves the problem of everyone huddling around the tiniest screen in the room. Now you can amazingly easily play and share your stuff with other people's equipment. It's a shame it's Apple device centric.

The features that have made the iPad a huge success are very consumer oriented features:

• affordable everywhere internet
• the complete lack of anything that requires a 3rd party to support
• a really polished playful user interface

Will those benefits apply to business customers? Maybe, but none of those are things that business really cares about. In fact, some people (service providers and IT departments) have a lot to lose by recommending a device with those first two features. It's possible the only effect this will have is on how happy business users are with the equipment they're given.

Most game developers won't develop games for a pricey peripheral until Microsoft can say we've sold XXX (large number) of Kinects. Even if they're losing money on them (I've read arguments both ways) they need every sale they can get to guarantee a steam of games for it. Even if that means Joe-Linux is getting a Microsoft subsidized IR webcam.

I don't know how I feel about what Oracle is doing, but when you are comparing a company who's financials looked like this (note the red in the operating income) to a company who's financials look like this (note the large numbers in black under operating income)... I have a hard time buying that Sun was doing things the smart way.

Apple routinely surveys their developers in the iOS program and Window Phone 7 isn't even a category for "other platforms" you can develop for. It's 15 minutes of questions that basically ask: "When do you plan to start developing for Android? What do you like about them? What can we do to make you happy?" The Android battle isn't even just Apple vs. Google anymore now that Amazon is planning an Android app store.

Even so it could be the competition, but I'd put my money on the recent anti-trust investigation as the reason Apple's slowing opening up.

"And you thought the Droid X's kill switch was bad."

Yes, I did. And it was much worse. What would it take to get slashdot to stop the over sensationalizing? There needs to be a Facebook to Slashdot's MySpace.

Even large ones have ridiculous aspect ratios designed for entertainment.

Perhaps you've never had to make revisions to something where you would want the original and new version side-by-side. Or wanted to keep an eye on a number of windows while still having enough space to work on a whole document. There's a reason that although you can hook up two monitors and line them up vertically, almost no one ever does.

It sounds like he's going to use a modified Femtocell. Since you can actually go out and buy these and they route phone calls over public networks, there any many potential points of attack. Considering if someone wants to listen to your cell phone calls and asks ATT nicely ATT will happily given them a room, or anybody with a radio scanner can listen to cordless phone calls and WiFi WPA2 has been cracked in several different ways, no one should be assuming privacy on anything wireless.