My understanding is that what's stopping Adobe from porting Flash to the iphone is that Apple don't approve apps for the App Store that implement an interpreter. Flash would not be approved and therefore couldn't be distributed.

I thought the same from the summary. What is morally wrong that doesn't cause harm? But having read the article, I think that the distinction was between actions that caused harm and actions intended to cause harm:

"The confusion in the brain made it harder for subjects to interpret the boyfriend's intent, said Young, and instead made the subjects focus solely on the situation's outcome."

Wow, that's balanced. FP gets 5 interesting for remarking that they don't use PayPal without bothering to specify why.

GP says he supports PayPal's decision because they're a private entity and his comment gets modded as a troll and further down the thread insulted (which is modded 2:insightful).

No, I'm not new here but this kind of blatant bias really does nobody any favours and can hardly be called moderation.

So I'm wondering, Mr Moderator, will you mod me up if I say FUCK YOU too.

That's brilliant!! It placates those few that are worried about getting their personal data out of Google whilst the majority leave theirs in there.

Correct me if I'm wrong (you will won't you?) but that is the only Google product/help page that doesn't look like a page from Google. Everything about it spells hippy, commie, open-source weirdo. Not the kind of site that a respectable cubicle dweller should be on.

It's genius. Provide a help page that mainstream users will be scared of. Hats off.

From Google's point of view, it doesn't matter if individual users have access to their own data. As long as they're the only ones with access to everyone's data.

Not just Japanese. I meet a reasonable number of people from Hong Kong, China & Taiwan. Yahoo! is clearly preferred in these countries too.

I think that it's to do with instant messaging. Once your friends have one thing, you tend to go with that as well. Yahoo must have focused on that part of the world first.

Quite right but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't punish them if punishment and/or the threat of punishment keeps them from offending and makes things safer and more pleasant for everyone else.

I can't see how we can do anything other than behave according to what we are and what we perceive around us. However, excusing bad behaviour on the basis of that is changing the environment around us and is likely to make more of behave badly.

So, would Cloud Avenue's business model not be threatened if they hosted the databases on their own physical servers?

Well, what do you expect from someone who orks cows?

The Catholic church's genocidal position on condom use is happening right now and is a core part of the religion.

The net censorship in Australia is driven by religious ideology. Bad ideas are religion's gift that just keeps on giving.

Bwaaaahahahaha!! Golden. Never grows old.

My understanding is that his father Keith Murdoch

was actually a quality journalist whose actions helped to bring attention of the gross mismanagement of Australian troops in the first world war.

He passed on the news limited shares that Rupert used to build the empire. So arguably there was a quality journalist among the Murdoch media empire membership.

Mmmm. "naked women" shows up images largely of just that but "naked japanese women" shows up pretty much everything but what you'd expect.

Bing also failed me in my quest for "naked italian women" but it did turn up a picture of someone underwater which could possibly have been a naked Italian woman under the Santa suit.

Either Microsoft feel that it's not appropriate for me to choose the ethnicity of my naked women or they've got some tuning left to do.