Thats an OSNews kind of question. Ask it there, you'll get a better response.

Sucker! I'm sending a telegram via the pony express! I'll get that job, before you can lick that stamp!

I suspect they're not producing these kinds of phones simply because, despite the author's assertion, very few people actually do want such phones.

A writer and a submitter does not constitute some vast ignored market.

Well, what do you wan't? These are nerds were dealing with. Just don't aski him what sport the super bowl is played in, or how many downs there are in an inning.

Yeah, I kind of doubt its going to be easy to capitalize on any kind of gaming tv, because of the existing streams .. unless the competitions start charging for broadcasting rights. In which case they'll be the inevitable backlash from the comuniity. Viewership will go from worldwide without restrictions, to nation based, depending on rights distributions.

How much does a middle aged Slashdot ID go for nowadays? I might be in the market to sell mine to an astroturfer.

I'm not clear as to how, for instance, using buggy versions of SSL libraries fits into your whole theory. One possibility is that what you wrote is gibberish.

You could have saved some typing by not opening the article. But then you would not have been able to write this long pointless OT rant.

"Either your name is on the volume licensing agreement... or your brains."

As we speak, Microsoft is instructing its European "business partners" to give a certain French city a shitload of really cheap Office licenses.

I have to confess, I'm pretty mystified. For our own internal servers, I have my own CA, and can see no reason why I would want to have someone else sign internal certs.

Sounds like yet another way in which the commercial CAs scam stupid CIOs out of cash.

Wake me up when it gets more air time than the pro bass fishing tournaments or water ski competitions.

Lowering air resistance is something that is important to super cars, as it increases max speed.

And their solution is to drill more oil in currently protected reefs and forests. Yes, lets kill everyone's envionment so you can drive like an asshole in an suv cheaper. Where do I sign up?

Double kudos for writing it on touch screen devices. I do some Play-by-email roleplaying and at times I do posts on my Nexus 7, and man oh man it's difficult. I wouldn't even dream of doing long prose writing on a tablet.