Look at your comment preferences. You can change the value that is assigned to comment moderation. Funny is at +1. Just change it to -5 and you'll never see another "funny" post.

Expert opinion is that WebM infringes on numerous patents in the H.264 pool

It's not an expert option because he's not a lawyer.

Also, Google owns Youtube and is working to make every video available in VP8.

I suspect that YouTube will fully support HTML5 and WebM before Chrome drops H.264. Google isn't going to make two of their big properties incompatible with each other.

I just don't understand any legitimate concern to decline a breathalyzer test.

False positives. For example, here's an article that talks about a guy who was on a low-carb diet and the excessive ketones in his breath caused a breathalyzer to think he was drunk.

Yes, let's ban a useful tool because some people are too meek to ask others to stop doing distracting things with their laptops. [rolls eyes] When did people become so afraid? Is it really that hard to respectfully ask someone to change their behavior so as not to disturb others? Are we to ban a useful technology in the classroom because of a handful of bozos?

If this guy has paid, say, $2000 for health insurance, and his little foray racks up $20,000 in hospital expenditures, then we have paid the other $18,000 as the other insurance pool members.

Yes, that's how all types of insurance work. The point the parent was making was that if this guy does not have insurance, then the hospital has to treat him and, since he's uninsured, the taxpapers foot the bill for 100% of his hospital costs. Under Obamacare he'd be required to purchase his own insurance thereby sparing the taxpayers the burden of paying for his hospital stay.

So lots of web applications and interactivity are moving to HTML 5 and JavaScript and companies like Apple and Google are pushing hard to move things in that direction. Some devices, like the Google ChromeOS laptop, are just a browser with no capability for Flash and Java. We're going to see more of that.

Believe me, I agree with you that Java would be a better solution, but it's not really an option now and probably won't be one at all in the near future.

But then it wouldn't be web pages.

A neat demo, to be sure, but it's not compiling. It's just interpreting Python into JavaScript which is itself interpreted. I would much rather see the ability to write in the language of my choice and have that compiled into bytecode which I would then serve to clients. That bytecode would be what is executed. Then we can use whatever language is best for the job.

Will it finally support languages other than JavaScript for client side programming? Just when we seem to be entering a point in time where people finally realize that they can choose the right language for the job, so much is moving to the web where there's only one language or nothing at all.

This article is from April 7, 2009 and is old news. It's already been covered on Slashdot and other tech news sites a long time ago.

Breaking news: Oracle has made an offer to purchase Sun Microsystems. Will it be approved by regulators? Stay tuned!

Having more 'training' documentation, perhaps some YouTube videos for this would help.

What sorts of training do you envision are needed? Office suites seem to be pretty simple and straightforward affairs.

If it gets approved, viola!

Only applicable to patents related to classical music.

Here's the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY

Where is the place that is now what slashdot was?

That would be LWN.