Saying Flash sucks is fine. Banning the Flash compiler is fine. Banning the Flash compiler when they were weeks away from officially unveiling it? He could have done that from the offset and saved them the trouble.

I never said he didn't have valid reasons, but since you're going down this route, I'm sure he was never going to say "the reason we banned Flash was not technical, but because it would interfere with our revenue stream with our walled garden app store." Funnily enough, Bill Gates is not saying "we changed the APIs for Windows not for technical reasons, but because WP would interfere with our revenue stream with our Microsoft Office product" either.

I'm getting a sense of deja vu here:

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_effectively_bans_flash_compiler_in_iphone_os_4_developer_agreement/

The only thing I would say is that Apple never, enticed Adobe to create a Flash compiler, but the end result was pretty similar.

Not that I disagree with anything you say, but I was just referring to the part

If the GGP wants to rename c to "speed of massless, noninteracting particle", by all means, but that particle would not be a neutrino.

Sorry, I can't do that calculations. What's that in neutrino-years :)

I'm afraid current thinking is that neutrinos absolutely definitely 100% have mass, and that no matter how small that is, would mean that them travelling faster than c really is quite a big deal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation

It pisses me off how I have to jump through so many damn hoops only to get a false sense of security. We might as well go to using self signed certs as the norm for all the added security CAs give us.

I can't tell whether this is a joke or not. THE GP's IP is not responding to ping and nmap reports the host is down (I know that these don't mean anything on its own, but deep down, I so wish parent isn't joking!)

Come on, human stupidity on facebook can be funny sometimes.

http://failbook.failblog.org/

I hope you're joking.

19th century? Any self respecting geek knows that Vim was around well before that.

Sound advice. However, I suspect the majority of rioters on the streets at the moment aren't the type of people who read Slashdot nor think about the consequences of showing their face in public to all those people with smartphones.

For example: http://catchalooter.tumblr.com/ . No facial recognition technology with this site, just the "many eyeballs" technique.

Maybe they all 10,000 residents read Bruce Schneier's blog:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wireles.html

Also, I know TFA mentions "Residential Locations", but I wonder if there were any coffee shops dotted around which offer free wifi. Maybe none, but a short sentence in the article would help me sleep at night :)

I think it could be argued either way, in which case I was prepared to give the benefit of the doubt :)

True, but being a grammar Nazi does not prohibit me from correcting typos

There, FTFY

This is why we need PGP signing or something like that to become mainsteam. This would have cleared things up so much quicker. Damn you email clients stuck using technology decades old, we need to move on to stop fraud like this from even being attempted. I can't believe that in this day and age, they are /still/ using techniques similar to handwriting matching (well, sentence construction matching in this case, but you know what I mean) when there are soo many better ways of verifying your identity.