As user narkoz @ habr.ru put it, "you don't get 200,000 classified documents without making a few enemies"

Symbian is dead. No need to wait for Netcraft to confirm it.

It might be an interesting development if in 5 years we abandon both KDE and Gnome, and use ChromiumOS or its forks instead

Thank you for the explanation. I stand corrected.

Either Larry Ellison is smart beyond my imagination, or he's too stupid to understand that he's basically killing MySQL, OpenOffice and Java - arguably the three most valuable software assets he bought with Sun.

There are plenty of home router manufacturers; if one would insert ads into processed traffic without compensating the user by substantially lowering the router price, people would just stop buying its hardware. Just being able to do something doesn't immediately make it a good business decision.

If done properly, it would be great. However, the potential for misuse is still pretty high: in the "best" case, the CDN's antivirus software may glitch and trigger removal of harmless content, ruining someone's day. In the worst case, war crime reports may be magically cut out or replaced with pictures of rainbows and unicorns.

I think you missed the point in your rush to object. What's the legal difference (IANAL) between optimizing HTML and inserting ads? In both cases X leaves the source, Y arrives at the destination. Opera does something like this for their Opera Mini browser: the content that is delivered to the browser isn't even HTML, it's some proprietary format, although the browser usually correctly renders it to what the HTML would look like. However, in case of Opera Mini, I explicitly agree to such manipulations and to accompanying technical solutions.
Once again, this may be a good move on Cotendo's part that will lower their costs and improve end user experience, but it is a dangerous one, because if ISPs and CDNs automatically receive the right to manipulate transmitted content however they please, it will certainly lead to abuse in some cases.

It doesn't really matter if it's a technically good move; if this sticks, we might be getting lots of ISP-inserted ads, iframed toolbars and other "value-added" stuff in non-encrypted HTTP traffic pretty soon.

I personally find Instant Search an awesome feature. However, it seems to conflict with an experimental search feature I love (namely, the keyboard shortcuts), so until Google introduces a version that supports both Instant and keyboard shortcuts, the latter feature wins.

Don't know it this is a slashvertisement or not, but the original post on the Ksplice blog sounds much more adequate and calm to me. I wouldn't bet that the AC who posted this works for Ksplice.

Oh. I see. They're going to lock down fully capable CPUs. Now that's a shame.

Please keep in mind that usually such downgraded hardware is actually a top of the line CPU that has some defects and was unable to pass all the QA tests imposed on the flagship product. So while this stuff may be cracked, it is quite possible that people who do so will experience lots of bugs due to failing cache blocks and hyper-threading modules...
If that's the case, I don't see a problem here: Intel just charges more for a CPU that has all of its components working properly, and less for units that had high failure rates of the said components and had them disabled.

Wrong. Twitter doesn't treat the username as metadata - it's still limited by that SMS size. From the help center:

While theoretically it's definitely possible, I'm not sure if storing BLOBs in a database is a good solution; at least none of our colleagues from other universities and agencies like ESA or NOAA that I personally know (or at least have some knowledge of how their systems are built) use this approach. All of them do exactly as GP said: store metadata and e.g. file paths in the database, and store tables, BLOBs etc in the file system. Since some of these projects have a huge amount of resources, I think that this approach may have more to it than it may seem.
And as far as backups and mirroring go, there are projects that use popular protocols like BitTorrent for mirroring and load balancing, and there are some that have built non-trivial custom data distribution systems (like the SDO guys).