Aren't Android apps written in Java syntax with a Google version of the JVM?

Zynga's lucky he treated the barrage with a sense of humour.

He could have easily gone into "rant mode" about how people got his email address, torn a strip off them, and pissed off their customer base right royally.

No surprise that Zynga screwed up, though. They're kind of famous for doing that -- as well as ripping off other designer's game ideas.

The US harmed itself with it's egregious spying.

All Snowden did is expose the bullshit. He didn't cause the bullshit. That's squarely on the backs of the NSA and the US government's "secret" legislation.

Agreed. It kills me that one has to shell out $1,495 to get Quantrix Financial Modeler to have that sort of interface w/ the numbers, and it's still bizarre to me that Lotus Improv didn't succeed.

Actually, the UI for Lotus Improv was quite nice and won some awards.

Its (spiritual) successor, Quantrix Financial Modeler seems to be selling well enough, even w/ a $1,495 price point.

I wish that Flexisheet (an opensource take on this sort of thing) would get more traction.

If you can load your self-made CA cert onto the device and explicitly tell it to trust any cert issued by that CA, then everything is fine. Obviously if you don't do that, a MITM attack should cause scary warnings. :-)

So maybe Apple or Motorola or someone do have a copy of the infamous Rob Ford Smoking Crack video in their archives.

Only the worst of Java-script heavy pages slow down on modern hardware with any of the browsers. 99.999% of the time the "slow" is because of AJAX queries to an unresponsive website, and there is bugger all the browser can do about that.

I tweak code performance beyond reasonableness, too. It's a "hacker thing." But it's not something the user can really see or notice once the first rounds of tuning are done, though. But there's an ego involved in producing the best and fastest code possible, even if no one else can tell the difference without a nanosecond stopwatch.

Wait for the DVD or Blu-Ray to come out and watch it at home without all the annoyances.

I don't understand why anyone still goes to a theatre today with all the rude behaviour from the audience. You can't enjoy a movie at the theatre any more.

We already got a deskjob in the air travel industry, it is called air traffic control. And despite the ease of staffing it, the ease of having regular, short shifts so that staff can be available, in redundant numbers for emergencies and well rested, air traffic control is routinely understaffed and overworked.

Do you think remote pilots would be immune from the eternal pressures of cost cutting (on functional staff, never on executive wages). If one remote pilot can monitor one remote flight, why not two. of course only during the quiet times during Atlantic crossings. Soon trainees will be monitoring dozens of flights, alone because the handful of remaining trained pilots are doing non-stop landings during 12 hour shifts with no breaks. Don't like it, we can outsource you now to any corner of the planet boy so just take it.

That is to say nothing of the inevitable super center that will spring up and then power down as the 1 power cable is cut by a guy with a shovel and it turns out the backup power budget was spent on bonuses. It happened before it will happen again. And that critical infrastructure update? Delayed until the system collapse. You wouldn't think airports would delay replacing an aging radar because taking it down would close down the airport for a just a few hours, but it has happened. Now your safety no longer depends on essential but still optional equipment, your life hangs by a radio tower people can protest against for years and whose delay makes some managers budget look good.

It ain't the tech I am worried about, it is the humans. Don't believe me? COUNT the number of pilots in a UAV setup. 1 pilot. Airlines got two for a reason. Cost cutting right there.

Last time I checked, concrete didn't fall apart when you turn off the power. What next, you are afraid that when your car stalls, the bridge it is on is going to collapse?

Either you are to stupid to be funny or you are just to stupid period.