I had heard they were promiscuous socialites, but had no idea they were hookers.

Well you are probably not in the target audience then. Iron is most likely used by those who use as few Google services as they can, or at least use them without Google accounts.

They already do this, only they call the patches "editions."

You also need an audio system of some sort and a copy of "Still" by the Ghetto Boys.

I would not call the iPhone platform "open" in any sense of the word. The software is proprietary, you have to use Apple's tools, and you can only distribute your application* if Apple gives you the go-ahead.

*I'm not counting jailbreaking and alternative locations here. Apple disables this kind of thing by default, so your users will be required to take extra steps that complicate things for them both now and in the future.

Interesting percentage there.

Given that we didn't beam out the Wikipedia article for the first message, I'm going to try and anticipate what the alien civilization will see it as by deciphering it myself without reading the article first:

"From top to bottom, the word 'aliens' in white English letters, a purple rock, some Space Invaders, a man with a giant blue head and a staff to his right, some white noise, and a bunch of stars over Planet GMail."

Sure, if you want to die alone.

I'm not saying that the perfect match isn't out there, but the probability of finding that true significant other is extraordinary slim.

Somehow I don't think that has anything to do with how long your laptop lasts.

Libel is not a crime. It's a civil tort. The 1st Amendment does indeed protect false speech, to the extent that it protects you from the government itself. Private individuals, not so much.

The way to view the video is to use an external site (NeoSmart's site to be precise) to find the MP4 on Google's servers and display it using the video tag. All the script does is add a link to the YouTube page that redirects you to NeoSmart's viewer.

A far better solution would be something like YouTube Without Flash Auto or YouTube Perfect, both of which (among other features) locate the MP4 client-side and present the video right in the YouTube page using whatever plugin you assigned to play MP4 files. If this can be pulled off without involving any external sites, I see no reason that a conversion to HTML5 video tags can't be done the same way.

Disclaimer: using those scripts to view YouTube outside of the Flash player violates the ToS.

Well I got that from Wikipeida since I don't use Flashblock anymore. Their source is the CVS logs.

This is a poor example, as several states mandate seat belt use if the belt is installed in the vehicle.

Flashblock puts a placeholder in front of Flash, Shockwave, Authorware, Java, and Sliverlight.

That is because Americans only understand humor and not humour.