Flash support is kinda funny - the Metro version of IE uses a whitelist, but the desktop one seems to allow it to run everywhere. Go figure.

Particularly if the person near the victim who gets wounded is the attacker.

-- Terry

"Microsoft does not yet respond to the DNT signal, but we are actively working with other advertising industry leaders on what an implementation plan for DNT might look like, with a goal of announcing more details about our plans in the coming months."

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2012/05/31/advancing-consumer-trust-and-privacy-internet-explorer-in-windows-8.aspx

So basically, this is all about screwing anyone who honors DNT by competitively disadvantaging them in the marketplace relative to Microsoft -- a statement I'll happily retract as soon as they start honoring DNT themselves, rather than just using it as an anticompetitive weapon in IE10.

This pretty much implies they are once again wielding their monopolistic power in the marketplace to promote their own products and services. Isn't this what got them into trouble last time?

-- Terry

I think it's important to separate two things here. First of all, yes, economically, austerity programs being pushed onto Greece are going to ruin their economy, and they're right in not accepting them. However, there's also no doubt that they are in their current position because of irresponsible governance and economic policies of their own, and in a democratic country the responsibility for that lies with the electorate as well. So when Greece insists that they have been wronged here somehow, and defy austerity demands on the grounds than they did nothing wrong, it is guaranteed to generate resentment among countries who were paying for the party the Greeks were having - and rightly so.

Actually, no, they did not. All the stereotypes about Germans you've listed date to late 19th century at the earliest, and most of them are post-WW1 or even post-WW2.

And Bastion is cross-platform via Mono (I wonder how that'll go on Slashdot where the groupthink is to love HIB but hate Mono).

The European Parliament cannot change anything about ACTA. Either it passes it ("gives ascent"), or it rejects it.

Theft, really?! What happens when a poor programmer cannot feed their children? They die. Of starvation.

Murder is the word you are looking for, cold-blooded premeditated murder .

Windows Store has some dedicated language in the license so as to explicitly enable FOSS apps (yes, including GPL)

Good suggestions. Certainly better than spending another decade obsessing over zero G health issues while sitting in the ISS going no where.

I'm pretty sure the zero G biology issues have been inflated as concerns largely to justify the ISS since its one of the few things its good for.