Actually, thats exactly what Reddit* did some years ago, and it continues to work like a charm to this day.

find /usr/ports/* >> notmalware.txt

I'm not making an argument, im pointing out a massive hypocrisy that is clearly embedded in politics.

The best way that I can possibly explain it is that it is a device that has been absolutely brilliantly designed for human use; you already know how exactly how to use it before you pick it up. It does precisely what you expect it to in every circumstance.

I'm sorry that it's not a netbook, though if you want one of those, you're in luck: the exist and you can go get one.

You know, the EU has a lot of nerve coming down on google for "privacy violations"; the same body who seems to have exactly no problem at all with Britain's blatant and constant violations, and they've actually been a MEMBER of the EU since 1973.

All politics, no substance, this. Moot, meaningless, next.

+5 insightful? Really? What has happened to you, Slashdot?

I've had the opportunity to play with an iPad for a couple of hours, no lie. I went into it extremely skeptical, thinking it was just a glorified e-book reader. But being the kind of person who likes to actually have a personal experience before giving my uninformed opinion on the internets, I couldnt refuse the offer.

I came out of those couple of hours wanting one, and I will have one the minute they come out. It really is an amazing machine, despite what quite a number of non-experienced nay-sayers say.

The authenticity of certs no longer matter, and I'm frankly astonished that neither mozilla nor slashdot has ever heard of ssl taps, an *enormous number* of which are currently active in Chinese public networks.

It's a man-in-the middle thing, and I run them at work. They're very easy to configure, and if you really know what you're doing, you can "legitimately" fake the identity of any cert you want, and every single byte of your traffic is sniffable to whoever runs the tap.

Funny you picked "mortgage" as your example, as nearly all US mortgages are "living documents", in that your interest rate changes and therefore what you pay for your house will never be anything close to what you think you originally bought it for.

HAN? Are you freaking kidding me? I've been in what eventually became the "IT" field for twenty five years, and if I see one more goddamn contrived acronym, I'm quitting and raising sheep. I mean it.

"Either you're a professional developer and you deal with the slightly older APIs/compilers to serve your users, or you're a hack."

Bingo:

Firefox 3.6, Windows XP SP3, 14 tabs open, two on flash pages: 1.2GB memory used
Opera 10.10, Windows XP SP3, 14 tabs open to the identical pages: 330GB memory used

I came to the conclusion some time ago that I was still using firefox because I was attached to the Netscape/Mozilla name, psychologically. Firefox really didn't do anything that a number of other browsers don't do at least as well, usually better, so I jumped ship and started using Opera. No crashes, no whacked out memory leaks carried over from MOSAIC for pete's sake, and flash works just fine.

Mind if I compile my own? It's really the only way to fly.

Yes indeed. I can see it now: "Made in Tibet by the four monks we haven't gotten around to executing yet"

I know I don't agree with this. The burden rests with me personally actually, to simply continue not using Firefox.

As I still cannot get a 3G nor an Edge signal to sustain itself for more than literally 10 seconds...

Right in front of City Hall in Downtown Manhattan. They *say* they've upgraded their NYC network and added capacity, but my signal strength (as noted by decibel, not bars) has remained absolutely consistently horrible everywhere in the Financial District, Gramercy Park, all of the Village, and both the Upper East and Upper West Sides.

Lies and more goddamn lies.

Let them have it. Seriously. You don't want to be remembered forever for the creation of the most annoying feminine hygiene meme in the universe.