This could be a great thing to embed into online how-tos and the like for teaching basic or even advanced linux. ... heh, embedded linux on the rise again :P

All great innovations begin as a hack, then are further polished and improved. Discounting a novel use of a previously known phenomena is pretty closed minded.

As people have pointed out, this is only a beta release, however, maybe the dialog in the Linux community will turn to evaluating the impact of this plugin on the viability of the Linux desktop. Personally I just see this as lip service to try and keep interest in Flash, which has mostly fallen out of media attention. Something tells me this will never see a finalized release, though I could be wrong. I will always personally doubt Adobe's commitment to maintaining a truly cross platform solution until we see development tools under Linux and until that day I will always advocate dropping it like three month old turkey bacon.

I'm sorry, i couldn't hear you through all these crazy hats and the Heavy quoting Sinistar at the top of his lungs.

It was about the struggle for woman's rights. You see, it was all symbolism for male oppression. You see, the phallic flack tank shot down the dreams of the the feminine invaders while skirting their attempts of rebuttal using the previously established male-bias structures in society. Very deep stuff.

It was actually intended to be an amused ironic statement. Google didn't really do anything here, the RIAA are just trying to encourage further action without understanding their goals can not be realized within the framework that has been established. Any action that hinders the flow of information will be circumnavigated faster then further action can be taken. The common maxim of "information wants to be free" holds true in a macroscope of any network. I do not mean to imply that Google is being complicit, only that they realize any actual censorship would be met with public outcry and that their blacklisting of piracy terms from auto complete was only to appese the dark gods of anti-piracy whilst still maintaining the overall neutrality that we all expect them to exhibit.

Now they will have to actually type out their coppywrite infringing query. Well thanks alot google for making illicit deeds slightly less convenient.

It's a hydroponic's gateway drug.

My LED lamp shines at 7,527 lumens and lasts over 30,000 hours. Your twin-wicked candle is clearly inferior.

This reminds me of that horrible concept divice someone once tried to convence us we'd all be using by 2020. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40tS8A-SJ6c

I don't think most people on facebook even care about academics or literature. Priorities people!

Modern literature can't hope to even hold a candle to the established canon if it allows such glaring holes to creep into the distribution medium. Beyond that we seem to be giving less and less mind to the value of information, given our trend to create more and more and more. If we continue to allow this sort of dilution of culture into corporately funded blurbs then we will never see any more truly ground breaking literature. Those artists that decide to deviate from the established cultural norms won't be able to get those advertisers to support their message. We must fight against such encroachment of culture if we are to keep any medium diverse. I for one do not want to see everything become vinilla.

MEIN Führer! I can walk!

Spoof your user agent, not like they can actually tell what browser you are using beyond that.