How the hell do they intend to do that?

No, wait, let me guess - they intend to install it in the user directory like Chrome does. I have to guess, because the feature description sure doesn't explain how it would work.

Oh, but the bug reports do. Apparently they're going to "work around" UAC by running yet another background updater. Just what I need. Another background updater running at startup, slowing Windows boot, just to "work around" Windows security.

Somehow, the idea of "working around" security features built into the OS sounds like a horrible idea to me.

I'm not sure, but I'll bet the mayor of Boston knows him. I mean, hell, Martha Coakley mistaking him for a Yankee was enough to get a Republican into Ted Kennedy's senate seat.

That said, I listened to Curt Schilling talk at a panel at PAX East last year, and I will say this - the guy is legitimately passionate about video games. He clearly enjoys playing them, and it's clear that he hopes to make the best game he can. So he's not just some random executive, he's a gamer at heart.

While I'm impressed with his passion towards making games, I'm not at all convinced it translates to the ability to make a good game. Nor does it mean that he's able to run a game company.

What, of Apple? Because it's Apple that's considering dropping Samsung as a chip fab. You might have read about that on Slashdot.

But technically you're right, I got the details slightly wrong. The A5 apparently contains some Samsung technology, so they'll continue to fab it. The rumor is that the A6 will be made by TSMC.

No, that would be Samsung that's doing that. And I don't know if you've noticed, but Apple and Samsung haven't been getting along that well recently. (Something about Apple thinking they own the rights to rounded corners in electronics or something.) It's unclear whether or not the A5 will continue to be manufactured by Samsung at all, let alone in Texas.

Ah, so that would explain why the two CVE entries for Java this year are exploits in HTTP server components?

Sure you can! The Java AWT uses DirectDraw for hardware acceleration under Windows.

No, really, it does. They apparently couldn't get their UI library (Swing) to run fast enough without using hardware graphics acceleration. So they did.

Under Windows, you can get the FRAPS framerate counter to appear on Java GUI applications. I don't think I've gotten the Steam overlay to work on top of a Java app yet, but it might be possible.

Really? So you're running the latest version of Java (update 30, I think?) to close that remotely exploitable "arbitrary code execution" bug, right?

And that would explain the over 700 CVE Java entries, right? Including two already this year! Already going straight into the remote vulnerabilities again, Java!

I've always wondered how Java manages to have arbitrary code execution bugs on a routine basis, being a virtual machine that supposedly does bytecode verification, not to mention the built-in array boundary checking, yet it does. Consistently and frequently. It's kind of impressive, really.

Yes, they are (did?), despite Obama's best efforts.

Obama spent the past year trying to keep us in Iraq. He failed to negotiate an extension with the Iraqi government.

That's not a point in his favor.

I'll let other people point out the other flaws in your points for him, but you're giving him way more credit than he's due.