I want this patched, but I'm very curious as to how this really compromises anything.

I can see how it can affect virtual keyboards. Who exactly is this market? People using IE and using Virtual keyboards for security reasons? Can we have a slashdot poll of virtual keyboards users and there favorite browser.

It says these ad sites are using the data. What exactly does this give them...maybe the fact that I click the start button at 10:01 A.M. every day? Otherwise it is just random X,Y coords without knowing what app has focus.

Besides being an ugly word it is imposing a sort of emotional response to something that is more practical and dare scientific.

At the end of the day we have created fusion. Most of it came through bombs, but from a scientific standpoint we know about fusion.

This is about creating a clean, reliable, cost effective energy solution.

There should not be hard feelings or even a feeling of failure. The idea was sound enough to look into. Maybe it's just not practical. No use throwing good money after bad or crying over spilled milk.

"Just when you think the cable TV viewing experience couldn't get any worse..."

I have DirectTV which could be considered cable I suppose. I also have Netflix, Hulu Plus, and a Roku box with some other stuff. My DirectTV box supports Youtube for that occasional time I want to watch Gangam style on the big screen.

I have a DVR and I love my cable "experience". My box has a basic search, but it's good enough. It records fine. I get all the shows just fine. I rarely get weather issues and never get "buffering..." messages. Add in ondemand.

Lets not confuse experience with price. We have also become a super cheap bunch. The same person that lays down 2k for an Apple laptop will complain about 100 dollar cable bill. I've spent more on dinner for a few friends then my cable bill. To bad we can't pipe our cable in from China huh?

At the same time people love their fast Internet cable modem...at this point about the best we got. Fiber at the kind of scales we need it is just not practical...and honestly coax could rival it as we move more and more spectrum to the cable modem.

What I don't understand is why Netflix doesn't offer a premium service. Offer me a 50 dollar a month plan and get the good stuff and get it faster. The real question, are our cheap asses willing to pay for what we want or not?

All that said this Kinnect thing is stupid and would never fly...and probably just someone trying to get on slashdot.

How about Google just asking Apple to not charge Samsung a billion dollars and call it even.

Seems unrelated, but guess what software changes and evolves. The biggest reason to upgrade to windows 8 is that 8 is higher than 7. People still running XP are like people running a linux kernel 2.4 because 2.6 doesn't really have anything you need...of course it doesn't...its about the long term aggregation. XP doesn't run IE 9...why we have so much IE 8! Just upgrade already or buy a new machine or whatever...just do it. Yah your 1997 honda civic might run "fine", but I bet it has a tape player.

Having an OS that can run well on a tablet and well when in traditional PC use is going to be hard and it's going to take a few versions for anyone to get right.

MS is NOT apple. They don't need people standing in line on release day clapping at one another to be successful. No one gives a crap about some big line outside of a Best Buy. MS will sell this OS just like Windows 7....slow and steady. Apple wishes they sold even a fraction of the number of Windows 7 licenses of anything. Windows 7 = 670 million total, Ipad = 84 million.

This idea that Windows 8 is going to be Vista is sort of silly. Enterprises will likely have a Software Assurance or whatever MS is calling it these days and so the upgrade is just a matter of when not if.

Windows in the home? Windows in the dorm room? Harder to predict, but probably less often, but not less. You might get an Ipad every year and a PC every three. I ain't paying thousands more for a damn silver laptop I use every 3 months...some shitty 500 dollar Acer ultra book will do just fine. For the college student maybe a Chrome book is good nough.

MS is essentially the new IBM. They will come up with new products and people everytime will try and compare them to Apple...and everytime it will be for a different market no stupid day trader or CNet reviewer will ever understand. You never see "DB2 10 wil be a SQL Server 2012 killer"

p.s. If I hear another the "ribbon" in office is worse I'm going to shoot someone. The ribbon is better, if you don't think so your just old and stubborn. Your probably reading this in Chrome...u see a file menu? Even the three line menu is just a vertical ribbon. If your in FF do you see a file menu? Why do you think FF feels clunky? Techies love to hate Windows new GUIs and so there will be Metro haters...MS is smart enough to not care about techies and haters, but to care about average users.

Why are they storing CCs plain text on the terminals. Do they really need anything other than the last four digits...or can they store them encrypted locally or even better on a server.

The question is did they realize this threat and ignore it? Could they have forced their software vendor to fix it? Did they just not want to spend the money? If they didn't see the risk why?

Wouldn't it be better to have the browser support zip/tarball path.

Now

  would look thru the zip file.

I suppose there could be some security issues here, but it seems like it would be easier than chunking protocols if not much faster.

Further ...

Now we've got cached apps as well.

you must hate Youtube... HTML 5 is still not there yet...how long have we been talking about it? I turned on HTML 5 support on my Linux Chrome install for Google music and it just didn't work..and that is just AUDIO!!!! Went back to flash and it worked fine.

You might hate flash, but I think it's because you know it is every second of every day filling a void that should have been part of HTML 3.2

So the laws intention is really to prevent bullying.

Freedom of speech certainly protects me from saying something bad about the president, but it does not protect me from threatening him.

The language is always tricky, but I feel like a law could be passed that stated that posting a comment was the equivalent to going to park and talking it aloud. I don't see why electronics matter.

If I went into a school, broke into the intercom, and started saying untrue things about a student...potentially harmful things would I not get in trouble with the law.

Is it really all that different to go on Facebook and do it? Perhaps worse?

Is literally the new name. Am I the only one that thinks this is lame. Would Steve have ever okay this?

In IE iframes will block cookies if you don't have the right P3P policy. There where other bugs that would prevent your site's cookies from being read.

I've "faked" a P3P header just so users of certain IE browser versions could use my site.

At the end of the day the standard is a proposal and only MS thinks it's worth a hill of beans.

Last time I checked our star isn't going to die for several billion years.

I think it is cool to go to mars, but you know what else would be cool.... a cure for cancer(s).

Work on robotics, work on materials, work on computers, work on getting into space cheaply, work on better rockets.... the list goes on and on.

We are simply not ready to go to mars and quite frankly just doing it isn't a real good reason. I don't see the real scientific progress that would be made. I'd rather work on getting a base built there that we could land and just live.

"was in"????

Then why is their still so much piracy in music. Many of these sites started after iTunes, after Amazon MP3, after Google music.

There are a thousand ways to preview music before buying it. 99 cents to buy the main track of an album from a legitimate site should not be that much to ask. Turn on the radio, ask friends, hit the preview button. Is it really that hard to figure out if you like Brittany Spears or not?

So why do people still pirate music? Because they don't want to pay!!! It is not to "experience" more.

People download "game of thrones" not because they want to see if it is good...it is good...they download because they don't want to pay for cable and hbo. You might think it is too expensive, but that is no excuse. Game of thrones isn't like photoshop that is going to help you in your career. If the person isn't willing to pay for HBO today they are not in 5 years...not when they can get it for free.

Painting piracy as a good thing across the board is just as bad as painting it bad across the board.

If you upload an app to the market place that needs access to the users bookmarks I think that a more in depth review process is in order.

At the very lest the user should be see an alert that says something like "This app seems to want a lot on your phone and hasn't been verified by Google...only use it if you really want to "....