Well, I meant crypto.signText.

In unrelated news, Mozilla cuts off digital signatures. Even if they have millions of users.

Corruption and mafia ran pretty well in Stalin era.

He is not very tall, so not a problem. BTW, "putin" in bulgarian sounds funny, too. But not so innocent.

It is not practical for _everything_. Then again, cash is just as vulnerable to theft, inflation, loss or destruction.

...generally make everyone think that they do some good. And banks still fail - with all of your money, sometimes. If they don't it is not because of regulations. It is just because they have better return this way.

Me. We had a few bank runs here. Cash is not practical. No technology is perfect.

Ate them?

Now, what if they stop removing features not existing in Chrome just for the sake of not competing? I mean You, removers of crypto.signText...

There are both online and offline communities where bad tone is repressed in a variety of ways with moderate or up to absolute success. Then again, enforcement is expensive and in a lot of cases, not a necessity. When such rules are not enforced, you enter at your own risk. Some online communities are pretty much ghetto-like and most of them are clearly marked as such.

Being rich is a family value everywhere. Being a successful technocrat in Russia is tradition-approved, too.

What an optimist... This is not a pretext at all ! You see a clear act of self-censorship. The law mentioned has a lot of abusive potential.

AFAIK, in Russia, Apple products are generally not considered "masculine enough" long before Cook's relevations. For many russians, i-devices are girl-only. (Well, for the same those russians, anything expensive enough is a somehow "gay" when owned by a man or somehow related to prostitution, when owned by a woman... socialism, that is.)

There is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... - as serious as a food can be. Someone can argue that pastafarianism is newer than jedi-ism, but then again, every single religion postulates that it exists since the Creation.

The ability to teleport 1-2 tons of complex machinery intact wherever you want renders nuclear weapons pretty much useless.