They probably introduced the bug recently. It's not like they wrote the code once 6 years and called it done, code on websites changes all the time and generally with any program it's easier to miss something and introduce new bugs in existing code since you can quite easily forget something.

This fear of China is just WTF. "my lack of a nickname on this submission being testament to that", VPN's, Tor, all of that just to browse the regular Internet. Anyone who writes these things obviously have not been there or in the other Asian countries.

Most of the western quality hotels provide access to unfiltered Internet and you are most likely staying in one of those. Besides, the Chinese and Asian in general are quite relaxed people. Just think if American cops would be this patient and try to help the guy.

Seriously, the Chinese, Asian and rest of the world hate and fear by Americans is getting beyond ridiculous.

If it were as easy to come up with as you're saying, why didn't you do it?

What does this prove? Different versions of IE's can obviously provide the system and application wide libraries too, but there has to be at least one of them installed for it to work.

Then there is also the fact that countless amount of software uses IE's rendering engine, which has to be present in the system for those to work. Which again works with different versions of it.

I'm happy Steam changed to it's own WebKit, but it was just a few months ago and there still are thousands of other software that uses it.

Apple is the single largest abuser of open technology, standards, formats and platforms. To create anything for any of their platforms, you need to use Apple tools, Apple hardware and pay Apple. It's not even technical limits on the hardware, but all artifical barriers created by Apple.

I have no idea why Microsoft always gets yelled at because other third parties don't implement their support fully, but Apple gets a free pass on it.

The great thing about the "Any kind of IT product should be able to communicate with any type of service in the future." is that it can also mean that Apple needs to open iPhone and iPad for third party developers not just via their App Store, but fully without jailbreaking.

This is great news for independent developers or hobbyist.

These password recovery tools have been available as long as there have been passwords in use.

There isn't much you can do about it. They are cached passwords so the applications need to be able to get them back exactly as they were saved (website logins, email logins and so on). You cannot do md5 or other hashing methods on them and since you have the binaries, the encryption/decryption algorithms and keys or the logic is right there available for anyone to disassembly and debug.

Sony still sells Lemmings across various platforms. He had to see this coming.

Besides directly calling it Lemmings was even more stupid move. Sony has to defend the Lemmings name too, and if the port is low quality it hurts the whole Lemmings brand.

It's not punishment. It's what they've calculated as the damage you've caused (allowing other users to obtain free copies from you). Now you might not agree with the $750 per song, but if you do something illegally you should pay the base price and also extra for the damages and trouble you've caused.

And it's not even particularly unobstructive ads, just see this image and this image showing them.

Even worse than flash or those stupid punch-the-monkey ads. You actually have to interact with them.

I find this one the most interesting feature.

iAds

You clearly don't know how modern day encryption works. It would be insane to try to crack the encryption based on encrypted/unencrypted versions instead of cracking algorithm.

There was two versions of the collateral murder video. If you didn't bother to watch the longer version, it's not their fault.

And they did fire children and innocents who stopped helping wounded people on the street. Are you such a person who would just drive past wounded and bleeding people laying on the street instead of helping them?

And ISP's and operators will cut their profit to one-third and still have the same costs? Yeah, that will happen.

That and TV and internet distribution methods work differently. TV broadcasts the same data to everyone and backbone speeds don't matter. Delivering that same thing over Internet is not yet fully possible, even while we're getting there. But they are fundamentally different technologies.

Why not? World changes all the time. Even China is a lot different place than it was many years ago. Eventually it will happen.

And when will slashdotters see that Apple is bad for the industry? Of course, someone will again come along and say that Apple does it for its customers.

They want to control everything, require you to buy Mac OSX to develop for iPad and iPhone, charge a lot more for hardware than needed and do shit things like this. Still people here say it's somehow good and that Microsoft is "bad".

Apple is the new bad guy, not Microsoft.