... and doesn't always work.

Blank for me on my iPhone as well. And can't click anything but the ads when I try to load this in Chrome. Doesn't seem to be beta quality yet.

Slashdot is just trying to be more efficient by duplicating articles sooner.

As someone who manages a fairly large and growing database of user-created gaming content and visits Rapidshare, Megaupload, et al. regularly to grab recent releases, I can assure you that there are quite a few GBs of perfectly legitimate content on those file hosting sites. ... at least, until the files get deleted due to download inactivity :/

There. Now you've heard about many people using it for legal means.

Personally, I think I was far more mentally mutilated from my semester of FORTRAN77 than from any form of BASIC. /shudders

... well, to some degree anyway.

It does this by essentially transforming the mouseover event to a intermediate click event. For example, if you have a link that has a popup menu displayed on :hover, clicking the menu item will first show the popup menu. Clicking again follows the actual navigation. Although this doesn't address the issue of mystery-meat navigation and over events that are less obvious, it does seem to work well. I don't see why Flash couldn't do the same.

To me, the issue with Flash is all about playback experience. Adobe can't even get the player to be efficient and smooth under OS X on decent hardware, so having it on my iPhone sounds tortuous.

Dear Steve and Steve:

Seriously, this is beyond ridiculous:

* Anyone can receive e-mail that contains profanity and porn. Please remove MobileMail.app from everyone's iPhone.
* Anyone can access or stumble upon profanity, porn and more while web browsing. Please remove MobileSafari.app from everyone's iPhone.
* Anyone can download and purchase songs full of profanity and sexual references. Please remove the iTunes Music Store from everyone's iPhone.

Until you remove those three apps as well, it's obvious that you're full of iShit.

Shhhh! Don't tell anyone (especially the MPAA), but you can already "go to the movies" in Second Life -- there are a number of virtual movie theaters on the grid and they get their content from YouTube, private machines, or from a movie streaming service.

The popcorn is usually free but unfortunately, like in RealLife, you shouldn't expect the theater to be chatter-free when other people are there. Of course, you could just buy or create your own virtual television set and enjoy them in your own virtual home instead.

Though I doubt Linden Labs will be sponsoring any events around one of them any time soon, you may be able to get virtually employed by at least one of them if you were so inclined.

I'm curious. What about the Adobe Acrobat browser plugin that is installed with the reader? Doesn't it also support the same embedded JavaScript? I haven't yet found any clarification on this, but I am inclined to assume that it does.

If it does, it'd be trivial to use "hidden" embedded PDFs in a web page as an attack vector. And if the plugin doesn't share preferences with the stand-alone reader, turning it off in the reader won't do much good.

Does anyone know?

If someone WANTS to run under the platform of "unlimited trust", he should run as Independent. There's a reason why almost nobody gets elected as one.

No. Independents, third parties and other lesser candidates don't stand a chance at getting elected because:

• The press refuses to talk beyond rare brief mentions about anyone not in the two major parties
• The Democrat and Republican parties stole control of the debates from the League of Women voters after Ross Perot threatened their control, thus ensuring that only those people THEY chose would be allowed to participate
• The uneducated masses continue to vote for a) who they think will win or b) against the candidate they don't like, both based on bullshit presented by the media

Just a day or so ago, Cydia (the awesome package manager for jailbroken iPhones used by reportedly more than 2million iPhones) launched a new app store of its own.

There have always been paid apps for jailbroken phones, but usually they would require you to go to the developer's or another web site to purchase the app. Now however, it appears that not only can you write apps that have full access to the device and without censorship, you can also use the Cydia store for a seamless shopping experience.

The Wall Street Journal and others have more information.

Granted, this doesn't give you exposure in the App store and there are issues with dealing with jailbreaking your phone, but it does provide iPhone developers and users with a choice.

There's no money left to sit on. Which was the GPs point.

Government rarely, if ever, knows what "short-term" or "temporary" means.