PS3 games are already spectacularly inconvenient, often requiring 30 minutes or more of downloading, patching, installing and firmware-updating before letting me actually play the game I just bought. Having to type in a serial via gamepad would be the least of it.

Also:

No, it applies to current iPads and iPhones.

What has the iOS beta got to do with the next iPhone's CPU?

I know that chronically uninformed articles are par for the course on Slashdot, but not understanding the difference between software and hardware is a new one.

'A4' is Apple's name for a chip based on ARMs Cortex A8 architecture. The next chip will probably be called 'A5', and will probably be based on Cortex A9. A4/A5 and A8/A9 are two seperate nomenclatures.

Also, to 'flaunt' means to

This is not something an inanimate object like a phone can do.

The Military Option: Bushehr is not Osirak:

the GOI does not know where all of the targets are located

potential targets are well dispersed throughout the country, with several located in built-up civilian areas

any attack on Bushehr would likely result in Russian casualties and endanger Moscow's cooperation

IMHO this also sends a message: "We've been peeing in your centrifuges for months without even having to leave our offices."
Mossad already had the ninja assassin rep, now they get to be ninja assassin hackers.

You can only kill the scientists and bomb the facilities you know about; a virus can go anywhere.

Nope, seems about right. But you can reinfect a PC by inserting an infected USB key and viewing the contents, so until you know the infection-vectors (which took a while to discover) you'd have difficulty staying clean.

Stuxnet was made to stay undetected as long as possible - it only mucks about with attached drives (rapidly spinning them up and down) at long intervals and for short periods. So instead of a room full of exploding centrifuges, you get an abnormally high failure-rate. It even records sensor data from normal operation and replays it while it's messing with the drives to hide itself from anyone monitoring it.

Israel is (by far) the most nervous about Iran's nuclear program, and already had one pre-emptive attack on a nuclear plant under it's belt that (in their worldview) was a resounding success and is a point of national pride.
So one of the drives targeted by stuxnet is manufactured in China...I hate to state the obvious, but what isn't?

You observe, hypothesise, test, and then refine the hypothesis. Sometimes it takes a lot of testing before you find a case where the hypothesis makes predictions that are wrong (e.g. Newtonian gravity)

...and other times, the very first prediction that you test yields an instant fail.

Huh?

IIRC, he put the bottle into a fusion-reactor along with some banana-peels, then the car flew away. You might be cherry-picking your facts a little here...

Try Greece. I frequently get into arguments with shopkeepers who insist on putting my purchase in a plastic bag, no matter how hard I try to talk them out of it. Ugh.

They wouldn't have said that about a grandfather.

Because 'grandmother' makes more sense, given your generation's gender-gap in science and engineering. As a feminist engineer I'm sure this isn't news to you, right?

Read the summary, you say? Okaaay:

While the HTML5 and Flash standard debate rages, Apple, a major promoter of HTML5, has allowed its iOS devices to run Flash videos.

The device does not 'run' Flash videos - it renders HTML5 video served up over the web just like a bajillion other apps.

Apple has given approval to an app developed by Skyfire that translates Flash code into HTML5.

That would make the app an interpreter, which would be (a) highly impractical, (b) grounds for rejection by Apple and (c) irrelevant to the task of playing video. It's not the app but an external server that transcodes the video-stream, which is in any case not the same as "translating Flash code".

[...] the Skyfire app downloads the Flash video on Skyfire's server [...]

The app does not download the Flash video; it visits a website that downloads and transcodes the requested video. The app downloads only HTML5 video.

The app is embedded in the Safari browser.

That would make the app a browser plugin, which is very unlikely. Presumably the reverse is true (a Safari control embedded in the app).

Seems to me that the GP is both correct and on-topic, whereas the summary that you recommend reading is...questionable.

When you read an article that assumes knowledge of something you've never heard of, why not treat it as a prompt to go learn something new, rather than a personal affront?