Does no one here know German? Shame on you.

oh, grow up! What a waste of a frist psot.

I can breathe!

Chrome is very attractive in an environment where the user *doesn't* own the machine - the employer owns it and needs to control what the machine can do. There are many business situations where this is obviously the case. Chrome works like a firewall here.

Companies don't trust their employees and Chrome is a sandbox within a sandbox. This is a good thing in the corporate world where centralized control is valuable.

Chrome is a very thin client that really works.

then it wouldn't work. (No, they wouldn't have to kill you.)

Almost by definition, they have to keep the details secret. It sounds as though they verified the results empirically and didn't find false positives, but that's all we've got to go on.

Miami's loss was Minneapolis' gain.

an attractive USB device could host something undesirable. Smart clients won't touch them.

... so I followed the link in the article and checked the Register Complaint box and hit "Go"

Brains!

I heard Mandelbrot talk at IBM a few years ago. He was concerned about the increase in volatility of the financial markets - this was before 2008 - and I wonder what his last thoughts were on the subject of economics.

Whatever will we do with ourselves?

My prediction: when the $100 barrier is broken and laptops are in the supermarkets, the impact of this on the internet will be comparable to that of AOL.

Roger Ebert recently wrote about his life after surgery. He can no longer take anything by mouth. I can't imagine life without taste, but he lives it.