> Why they recreated Ecmascript 6 is beyond me.

Because of inherent limitations in Ecmascript, that cannot be fixed. I believe Google has explained all this.

No, the government of Somilia, like all Islamic governed countries, is much more like totalitarianism, than libertarianism.

Can't you tell?

After insisting, for years, that the US needs more H1Bs, because of a desperate shortage of trained Americans. Bloomberg now recommends that Americans become plumbers, to avoid offshore competition.

There are already Linux apps that can be used to put songs on an iPod. I think the Linux apps work with an iPhone as well.

Why bother with that horrid iTunes interface, and the 79 page contract.

Works for me. Not sure how well it works for iPhone.

> People will go with Win 8 because there is no alternative other than Mac

Stay with Windows 7?

> There's some excellent fat marbling on some of the North American specimens.

But consider all the chemical crap those things eat. Read the ingredients on a bag of doritos, or a can of coke. Do you want to eat something that has been feeding on that garbage?

My understanding is: if you are going to safely eat insects, they have to be specially grown. Wild insects are loaded with insecticides.

Rather than an encryption gateway, having your email client handle encryption avoids the problem of man-in-the-middle attacks between the gateway and the client.

I don't have much reason to encrypt, but Thunderbird has my certificate installed and does my digital signing. This is not unusual for a modern email client.

The real problem is: these companies let themselves get vendor-locked by Microsoft.

If they had used a browser that was less proprietary, and more standard; there would not be this problem.

Once you go with a company like Microsoft, you get totally locked in.

'With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated, they can't type, they can't create documents.

Of course you can type and create documents on most tablets a standard KB. Frustrated by *not* having ms-office? That'll be the day.