Thank you. And why you are pointing out facts.. 'However, the vitriol and obscenities are unprofessional at best.' = ' Remove him from the board of directors.

--doh!

My bet is their customer base are people that prefer shitty passwords. Eventually they will add two factor authentication. Of course it will mostly be so they can blame the other party when the method gets owned. But they still won't have to anger users that prefer shitty passwords.

Oh sure. After I finished trying all 366 possible numbers you tell everyone your pin isn't a date! Just for that I'm going to rob someone else.

Do you know an overlord that has given up power after it was given? This vote was just a confirmation to show that nobody will give up power no mater how evil the overlord or the power.

Life? What do you mean life? I ain't gotta life!

OK. Mozilla no longer has to keep XUL up to date which means those awesome listboxen with sortable columns, and various other cool things I loved so much, are back to being a complete and total PITA to write. Outside of that, what has changed? XUL was XML and it required Javascript to do its client side interactivity. HTML5 is a sub of XML and it requires Javascript to do its client side interactivity.

As far as it being an OS that developers like, the Mozilla guys seem to like it. Maybe they will write some really cool stuff with it.

How hard will it be to replace a BIOS? If the OEM's are smart they will make it easy and not tell M$. Then they will be able to sell the boards after M$ has gone on to something else.

The industry-controlled kill switch is a popular idea all over the world.

Maybe there will be a "Do what I'm thinking button" some day after all.

A personal assistant and a chauffeur? How much does anyone want to be the personal assistant and chauffeur spend more time in jail?

I completely agree. Games are not something you play for 2 hours and never look back. Large game distributors would the only ones to benefit. I can see it being used in other ways though. Using multiple machines with a capable GPU could be pooled to speed up graphics for "the geek that has everything".

What does wanting more spectrum have to do with bandwidth issues? It is obvious, to me at least, that they want the additional spectrum for ownership and nothing more. They know it exists. The last thing the want is someone else getting to first. Or worse. It being handed to the public!

I think it means exactly what I expect it to. I also believe it does not relate nor should it relate to petitio principii.

Not sure why was the summary written that way.

They are anticipating the translation to Javascript + HTML5. Isn't that what Microsoft replaced VisualBasic with?

It blows my mind how few geeks have a box at home with applications on it for remote use. Everything people are "wow" about these days, apps, sit nicely on my home web server with an html (actually svg or xul) front end built so I just connect with my phone's browser and use it like an "app" that other people install. The additional benifit, addition to not paying for apps, is the fact that none of my "habits" are guzzled down by whomever. I couldn't tell you number of times I've heard, "I didn't know you could install apps on that", or, "where did you get that game" or "who are you streaming that from". The only drawback, of course, is my ISP sucks total ass. But, when your choices are AT&T DSL or Warner Bro's cable that is life.

Agreed. Throw aways are great simply because they are cheap. If they break or get lost you simply slip your way through the fatties at [whatever]mart and grab another.