Of course, wait until after the persistent TLS1.0 connection bug gets exploited. Because, you know, nothing says "we care about security" quite as much as making available an exploited protocol.

I've seen this issue from both sides, as a consumer, and as working as a CSR for a cable company. The absolutely hilarious part here is that most consumers that want ala carte channels think that their cable bills will go down with ala carte. Needless to say, they won't. What will end up happening is they'll look at the ten or so most popular channels, make them total $20-$30/month, then make the rest of the other 200+ channels total up to the remaining $30-$50 that cable customers know and dislike. THEN the premiums get thrown in. So basically, ala carte will raise your bills for less service. What's not to like from the Cable company's standpoint?

Would this be a Quantum Tunnel?

it was late, it's actually MPI, message passing interface. For some reason, I always call it message passing protocol

It's a variant of the MPP attack you can do now, basically, find something shared by system, and append bad stuff to it. Nontrivial in theory, not so much in practice, because of the inordinate amount of things that are running as system that really shouldn't.

I'd presume the same way you pronounce UFIA, since they have similar functions

Since its _Raison d'Etre_ is teaching kids programming, requiring cross-compilation on another machine would be the stupidest move in history.

Is the device going to have a built-in interpreted language ala BASIC, perl, or java, or is the device going to have a full compilation suite?

Honmestly, the fact that Google+ is aiming for HTML5 games is by and large the reason it'll end up getting and keeping mindshare in the long run. Flash is reliant on Adobe's good graces to get fixes et al, but putting it into the HTML standard means that the FOSS mantra "all bugs are shallow to many eyes" starts having meaning. Basically, it may mean that google+ might have to make some small sacrifices to allow for firefox32767 (or whatever inflated versioning they use this week) compatibility, but it'll have a more robust environment for programmers and a much lower bar to entry (you need all sorts of development tools to make a flash game, you need a text editor to make HTML). Of course mindshare alone doesn't make for a successful platform (I'm looking at you, Commodore), but that mindshare will mean that eventually there will be a much richer gaming environment, and presumably the richer gaming environment will translate into user numbers eventually.

I've seen some pretty dick moves in my day, and tagging a photo with someone else's name, then hiding the evidence from them is pretty much up there. This is the kind of move you make if you wish to terminate a friendship with extreme prejudice. Therefore I expect to see its application almost immediately, in accordance with the Greater Internet Fuckwad theory.