That's what I keep telling my mom when she yells at me to clean the basement.

1. Don't you think it is up to the people of the nation in question who set up said policy to decide if it is the role of their government or not?
(If you are a citizen of Germany then there is nothing inconsistent about your 1 point.)
2. What if as a solution to the Malware problem they offer advice like "Have you tried Linux?"

Everyone here is surprised Salon had dropped the pay wall and is reacting to that. It seems the solution is to have a meta discussion about the effects of dropping your pay wall as a means to spread knowledge that it was dropped in the first place.

Similarly I never use Internet Explorer the browser, but without it, no Windows.

ala Alice in Wonderland - make it say "Eat me."

Dear B&N,

Please partner with us.

Sincerely,
Thomas' English Muffins Inc.

Can't figure out a way to Private Message, I guess Slashdot doesn't have a system for that. Would be curious if you have any recommended ActionScript reading/reference? Or would the nearest O'Reilly book do? (Yes, I could google, but personal inquiry is the shortest distance to a quality resource; google could give me anything.) Was not aware that ActionScript had those features.

Adobe controls the spec. They keep on adding on new functionality in a way that has to be reverse engineered, so that there is a lag time between when they have developer tools for it and the free software makers have developer tools for it. That has a direct impact on first to market opportunity for new functionality for developers, meaning that the free software version is mostly irrelevant if developers want to stay competitive. Does that sound possible?

I agree with most of your skepticism of this article.

Sorry, but there's a big difference between an AJAX app and a native app.

Certainly, this is true, but that doesn't mean the technologies of an AJAX app can't be used to develop an app on a native platform. Appcelerator's Titanium is a platform that specifically compiles down javascript, css, and html into an application that can run on the Android or the IPhone, with promises for more platforms on the way. I actually found that to be a glaring omission in this article, though it did throw a bone to Rhomobile's Rhodes framework. I'm sure there are many other types of cross platform mobile frameworks out there though that seek to minimize the amount of relearning that individuals have to do. It sounds like you anticipate Flash taking a similar role.

Javascript is a surprisingly elegant language.

Fixed it for you. :-)

I often hack into my neighbors microwave and ruin his TV dinners. He tells everyone about it in his tin foil hat but no one believes him. It's only a matter of time before he goes insane...

Mod parent up.

The LGPL debacle was a single instance. Many people put way too much weight on it than necessary - if you look at the entire history of the company, they have been extremely responsive and credible. My company's story shares many commonalities with the above. I have worked with extJS back when it was called yui-ext, so named because it was an set of add ons to the Yahoo User Interface libraries. Jack Slocum was a responsive, dedicated developer back then, and remains so to this day. For a long time he developed widgets in his spare time, and once demand was high enough and he wasn't getting compensated for his time enough he decided to monetize it. As with any business, there are growing pains and mistakes that get made, but to describe the licensing change as a stab in the back is hardly accurate.

As an example of a company crippling its games, I heard Windows 7 will include Micropayments for it's classic games. For instance:

Soltaire, Spider Solitaire, and FreeCell come with only half a deck. 99cents for a full one per game.

Minesweeper has only the small board. 99cents for the medium and large ones each.

Pinball, in an effort to be more true to life, will charge you 50cents per game.

Knowing Microsoft this will probably expanded to other areas of the operating system. Maybe, we can pay 2.00 to have images display on our screens, or 1.00 per hour for use of the windows calculator. Start menu clicks going for 5 cents each for a limited time!

Fnacy Nmae.
Of course, they could exist on wikipedia if you'd like!

I really want Kingdom Hearts 3 or Marvel Vs. Capcom Vs. Disney Vs. Square/Enix to have Wolverine, Cloud, Mickey, and Mega Man.

I'm confused how this got modded insightful. Microsoft still has their blacklist, the suggestion is to ADD Google's list. If anything, they suffer from the single point of failure problem now more than if they took the writer's suggestion to add on a backup source.

This post was generally full of speculation, but made me aware that there's a lot more I could be doing to add on protections to my general surfing.