The issue is multiple monopolies IMO. In music, you have multiple services all offering mostly the same content. You can pick your provider based on cost, or whatever other metric you decide upon. TV however is a minefield. Many services offering different content on each platform. If you want to watch all of the content, you have to subscribe to all of the providers. As a parent of children 9 years apart, it's a nightmare. The kids want to watch different things, on different platforms, each requiring a subscription. Me and my partner also like different things, also requiring different subscriptions. The cost builds up rapidly if you want to please everyone. It's no surprise people are going back to the piracy way of life!

Hoo

You dare mention a man that was partly responsible for downgrading Pluto? Shame!

That's why it's a TV (Television) standard...

The article (and in fact most similar articles I have read) seem to take nothing into account regarding automatic and manual gearboxes. There is a massive difference between talking on a phone whilst changing gear and whilst driving an automatic car. It would be an interesting comparison and it is certainly far more dangerous in general to speak on a phone whilst driving a manual. Having to change gear whilst keeping a phone to your cheek (generally with your other hand) is magnitudes more dangerous than plodding along in an automatic...

Nope, never said that. I said the ease of cross platform compatibility. It's a hell of a lot easier to get HTML to render the same across platforms than it is for an android app to 'render' the same on an iPhone!

The same argument holds for any platform. A native app will always be quicker. One of the advantages of web apps in any scenario is the ease of cross platform compatibility. In the mobile world this holds true even more so than on the desktop. If they can push this kind of development (especially with the hardware capabilities of modern phones) it would be great for phone hardware in the long term.

Don't piss on your telly again, and you should be fine.

::1 post is how I would have put it ;)

My bad, wrong phrasing. It was not part of the original spec however, as it was replaced with autoconf. It was defined 5 years later...

There also isn't DHCP with IPv6, hence the sarcastic comment... Oh well I guess my crap joke was worse than I thought. Or I overestimated the knowledge of the average /.er.

And don't forget to NAT everything while you're at it.

Yes

"100MB/s per month" How many MB/s does that equate to per second?

And guess how people end up remembering these passwords. Post-it notes within the vicinity of the PC seems to be a favourite.

Enforcing people to change passwords regularly seems to have many drawbacks. I really don't understand the point.