"photographs will 'capture nothing different to what a customer would see" - which is what they'd say about visitors to your home and it is obviously way too far. The Google stance is dangerous direction, "why not" doesn't apply to everything in life and I can think of tons of reasons why not. More like, "we're creepy and we will push you until you break, then back off, then push again once you're not looking".

Ubuntu still using the arcane titles chosen by the coders for it's applications? Fail. e.g. Totem should be called "Video Player". Ubuntu is never going to be as good as it can be until all of the un-intuitive app names are changed to normal ones (an Alias is fine, keep it's original name in the About menu). Then it doesn't matter what apps are swapped in the back end, people don't care as long as "Video Player" is still there and it works. How long has this gone on for? yeah really.

Might & Magic RPGs were mostly inventory lists.

iPad has flash?

Government funded social programs are not meant to make a profit, that would go against the whole point of subsidy. You know, giving money to something that can not afford to exist - human decency, paying a few bucks in tax to avoid seeing people die on the street on your way to work.

patent. and no it isn't possible to just bypass the issue.

the article answers that.

I did the same thing on some of my sites but I didn't think about facebook tracking, I just loaded my "like" stuff into a div using jQuery so it didn't bog the users down with all the facebook bloat stuff and I didn't need to show their ugly icons until the user wanted to see them - same mechanics, different goal.

You could say the same about the Hurricane story (0024206) on Slashdot. It isn't techy or nerdy, it's only relevant to one city, it's everywhere in the news, why post it?

.com is not a US domain extension, it is a global extension for any country. It means "commercial". There is a .us

Average people do not understand free-as-in-beer until someone explains it to them, so it is a useless term.

Borgle. claimed.

"than" not "then". you just said that you get a feel good vibe after $1500+USD
basically, then means after while than means instead (basically)... Lesson over, let us never see this error again.

"than" not "then"

but they can just change the javascript at any time, and using random methods