Come on bro, this is Slashdot, the liberal bias here is ridiculous. Don't waste their time with common sense.

IBM stands for "I've Been Moved" (Except now it's your *job* that's been moved, and you will probably not move with it...)

So ... does this mean that the infamous "long file name patents" are now officially busted?

The *proper* solution is to *accept* that some folks have open wifi, are ok with sharing their bandwidth, and therefore a consumer IP address is *not* to be admitted as evidence of a "crime" that has been committed using the public Internet.

If we had smell-o-vision then the smell I would want is the smell of a data center full of lineprinters. You knew when you were in that kind of facility the moment you walked in. Ah, the 1980's and Real Computers... *sigh*

This is good. The less of NYT's liberal propaganda people are reading, the better.

Face it, Apple CHOOSES to make their products the way they are.

Well, that plus they actually have the ability to make things that small, because the 11 year old girls working at Foxconn have fingers small enough to work on something as tightly packed as an iPhone.

The reason decaf tastes like crap is because of the decaffeination process. It removes most of the caffeine but the side effect is that it also removes some of the flavor compounds. There is good decaf out there, but it's very expensive because you have to start with ultra-premium beans to make up for the flavor lost from decaffeination.

If the beans are grown to not have caffeine in them in the first place, hopefully the flavor is there to begin with, and with no decaffeination process necessary, there will be some flavor.

Let's hope Monsanto doesn't get a hold of this and taint the world's supply of coffee beans with their imaginary intellectual property.

it might surprise you to discover that the world managed to create a great many things before keyboards were ever invented. It's hardly a requirement for creativity, and in many tasks is even a hindrance.

May I remind you that Scotty wasn't able to input the formula for transparent aluminum until he was offered a keyboard. Do you really want to own a computing device on which transparent aluminum cannot be created?

Well that's easy enough to fix; just put a firewall on it. All outbound control signals to the artificial limb (or whatever) are allowed. Inbound receptor signals are filtered and the ones that go "pain" are blocked at the firewall, just like the spam and malware from a virus-laden Windows box.

G+ will take over automatically. Just give it time. We will soon see a generation of kids who wouldn't be caught dead on the same social network as their parents. Social networks have a finite lifespan and Facebook's is just about over, at least for the demographics who matter. Zuck knows this and that's why he's cashing out with an IPO while it's still worth something. In the not too distant future, Facebook will be for "old people" just like email is perceived to be now.

Good for you. Facebook is the new evil empire and should be treated as such. Blocking their IP ranges is good, but if you're on a network shared with Facebook users you might also try the Facebook Blocker browser extension, which does the same thing -- it keeps Facebook from tracking you through all of those "like" buttons that appear all over the place.

From TFA:

As discussed in the just released Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes, Adobe has been working closely with Google to develop a single modern API for hosting plugins within the browser (one which could replace the current Netscape plugin API being used by the Flash Player). The PPAPI, code-named “Pepper” aims to provide a layer between the plugin and browser that abstracts away differences between browser and operating system implementations.

In a typical Slashdot display of sensationalism, the headline reads "Adobe makes flash on Linux Chrome-Only" but they've announced nothing of the sort. Adobe is switching Flash from the increasingly outdated and cumbersone Netscape plugin API to the new PPAPI (Pepper). There is nothing stopping Mozilla from implementing this API. And that's probably what's going to happen. I'd be surprised if there isn't already a team working on it.

The interesting thing about OpenID is that the vast majority of people who use it, don't even know that they're using it. When I added support for OpenID 2.0 to my website, I found that the vast majority of takeup was from people who pushed the "Log in with Google" button. There's nothing special about that button, it just automatically fills in the known OpenID for Google. There are buttons for AOL/AIM and Yahoo too, as well as the "enter your own openid" of course, but the vast majority of people who use it, are going with Google.

So you can safely ignore the naysayers who claim OpenID is dead and there wasn't any takeup. It's huge, it just didn't take the form most people imagined.

This is just trash talk from a competitor who failed in this particular market sector. Why even bother repeating it, other than as link bait?