This so much. I went from ColdFusion development to PeopleSoft, and I find myself missing such nice things from ColdFusion.

This is almost exactly what the Wikipedia article linked in TFA said. Just, y'know, FYI.

A lot of people are having trouble with this article because Google is having to do very Political things in this case.

Google engineers know for damn sure why the connections are being reset. But if they say that explicitly, the Chinese government will rambunctiously cuddle them. Google has already had troubles in the past with the Chinese government. So, what google has done here is said, "Oh no, there's something out of our control. If you do this search then your connection will be reset."

Note the usage of the passive voice there. Google is saying and pretending to believe one thing, while doing another. It's necessary, but unfortunate.

I heard it was going to be called "The Phantom" before this announcement.

About eight months ago, I was searching around the internet to find out why my computer was running so slowly (it normally ran quite fast, but had gradually gotten slower over time). After a few minutes, I found a piece of software claiming that it could speed up my PC and make it run like new again. Being that I was dangerously ignorant about technology in general (even more so than I am now), I downloaded the software and began the installation. Mere moments after doing so, my desktop background image was changed and warnings that appeared to originate from Windows appeared all over the screen telling me to buy strange software from an unknown company in order to remove a virus it claimed I had.

I may have been ignorant about technology, but I wasn't that naive. I immediately concluded that this cab was rare, but I thought nah, forget it, yo homes to Bel-air! I pulled up to a house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby, "Yo homes, smell you later!" Looked at my kingdom I was finally there. To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-air.

I realize this is way off-topic, but for the longest time I had no idea what "IANAL" meant. I couldn't help but interpret it as a pornographic version of the seminal work by Isaac Asimov.

For those who may not know, "IANAL" means "I am not a lawyer". Don't make the "I, Anal" mistake I did.

TMYK

This summer -

Too long have the Chinese taken our good, American jobs. The time has come for Anonymous Coward to go to China...

AND TAKE.
THEM.
BACK.

(Coming to theaters Summer 2012.)

Any cloud app requires a round-trip to the server and back in order to do anything which requires saving what you have right now as an intereim step. Usually that's something like 200ms, which any gamer will tell you is extremely perceptible.

On the flip side, any desktop app with more than about 200ms lag between clicking a button and obviously doing something is frustrating and ought to be supplanted by THE CLOUD.

I mean, why is Valve giving IPv4 so much more steam? Is this a sale thing or something like that?

Well, that site does happen to be 25% of all internet traffic in the US as of a year and a half ago. http://mashable.com/2010/11/19/facebook-traffic-stats/