Seriously, I am not trolling. Nor do I want to get in any side arguments(the government will force people to take this yadda yadda...).

But if they could get this working as a voluntary drug for the real problem sex offenders who can't control themselves(i.e. like repeated child molesters), I think it could have benefits. Having an option for those that do want to stop but can't would be a good thing.

Who moved my cheese? is a great story to read regarding this. While I could go a lot into my personal preferences, basically moving the job is like moving your "cheese". The article has a really good synopsis of it.

Sell them to others for like %75 of the price(Buy 3 get the 4th free). I would imagine the ones that would already buy a scratch off would also bite at a "deal".

There was an article already about helium depletion coming soon. Hopefully this is a proof of concept for other elements and not a new way to make hydrogen.

Yes.

Dude, using questions to bring in doubt and uncertainty is no way to debate. Questions should only be used if your trying to gauge someone else's POV(or you are trying to win over an audience, in which case kudos).

Regardless, I will leave this questions up to you to discover.

They do have a what happened to the status bar section in the FAQ, it includes a link to Status-4-Evar which will return the status bar to it's formal glory.

Wrong.

First, for streaming. It was extended to 2015 for free streaming if the site was offering free videos to the end user. That has even more recently been extended indefinitely: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/08/26/apple_supported_h_264_standard_gains_free_license_for_internet_video_use.html

Second, sites doesn't pay for H.264 licenses to encode. They would have to pay IF they are building their own encoders. Sites would normally have to pay for the encoder themselves, like any other regular commercial software. The software encoders are the one who has to pay the fee. If you still want to go on about sites paying...you can probably find "free" software to get past paying and truely solve your price problem :)

Heh, your a shoot the messenger kind of guy(i.e. a lot of "you" and "your"). As I mentioned to begin with, I was just copying from another page I didn't write. Relax, this IS the internet afterall...but on to my real response.

I guess the iPhone is the deciding factor to use H.264, since Android can use flash. So while my "math" may have been wrong, it still reaches the same conclusion: Chrome switching is not a game changer.

Your implication of my "implying" is wrong :)

I am SAYING as it currently stands(not the direction it is going), there is a lot of diversity in what it supported. As it stands, Google is not changing the landscape just because they are a big name,Firefox and Opera currently do not and will not support it which a LOT of people use.

I posted this URL in another thread, but it is a great view of the whole video format "war" going on.

Even with chrome supporting h.264, in order to get maximum compatibility for video playback across all browsers(let's not leave out Android and Iphone), you still need to have the video in all 3 formats(below is copy/pasted from the site). Chrome isn't going "backwards" compared to where it stands now, unless you prefer having site visitors standardize on a set of browsers, in which case I can't argue with that:

      For maximum compatibility, here’s what your video workflow will look like:
            1. Make one version that uses WebM (VP8 + Vorbis).
            2. Make another version that uses H.264 baseline video and AAC “low complexity” audio in an MP4 container.
            3. Make another version that uses Theora video and Vorbis audio in an Ogg container.
            4. Link to all three video files from a single element, and fall back to a Flash-based video player.

http://www.diveintohtml5.org/video.html

Most people don't know that in order to support EVERY video format for HTML5, you still have to encode a video 3 different times. But this site has a great explanation on which browsers support what, this history of the video formats, and even describes the history of licensing HTML5(i.e. went from paying for encoders, players, AND transmitting to just paying for encoders to players).

http://www.diveintohtml5.org/video.html

This isn't the first time ants have had to deal with the walking dead.

The company has been mentioned previously here on /. for its questionable relationship with the Chinese government.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/28/1228224/Chinese-Networking-Vendor-Huaweis-Murky-Ownership