I guess they're still laughing, because ordinary people still won't be able to understand this.

If you give software names, users get confused, so they just stuck with Software.

Maybe it's not on your distro's repos yet. Switch to testing, or wait for a day or two (it's already in the main repos for arch).

Don't fix what's not broken.
VLC plays videos as it should, and respects standards. If you phone saves rotation in a non-standard way, it's your phone's recording app that needs fixing: why don't you go and complain to then instead? You've probably even paid them too, so they have more obligation to fix stuff.

It also doesn't allow me to read my email. I'll stick to emacs, and migrate to VLC only when I can do my email on it!

Sure, killing other animals to same others merely because they're the same species as us is a great solution. Because we don't have other thing we can farm, like crops, fruits and vegetables!

Doesn't is just stream video to the applet? Can't you capture that video with something else?
Also, you can just use OpenJDK.

So Java applets will become less common on the internet? OMG, I can't belive this!

Keyboards with suspend/reset keys where PrintScreen is located were pretty common about 8 years ago. I remember just removing the keys from the keyboard to avoid any accidents.

2013 Macbooks have a "poweroff" key right next to F12. Don't know who the idiot that designed that is, but I just disabled it.

Indeed. Any human would have taken entire seconds to process it, they could have just waited 500ms to be on the safe side. Or could somebody had read the information, processed it, and placed orders in under 500ms?

If the trade takes 7ms to make it through, and this one came in 2ms after the announcement, then it was place 5ms before the information was public, hence they did break the law.

Indeed.
This is yet another dead business model which is not willing to admit it's time is past.

Things can be de-facto standard, or formalized by an organization (like the ones you mentioned).
NPAPI is a de facto standard.
NaCl is not a standard at all, just a protocol a single vendor designed themselves and implemented.

It's not a standard just because you publish the documentation. Or can I make the Hugo-Plugin-Standard now?

Google is just being a bully because of it's position. "Adopt our made-up standards, or don't interact with us."

What about seek time? If I need file #4455256, How do I go through all those 19M cards? You need a lot more infrastructure and SPACE to find something in that huge stack of cards.