SCO also have contract disputes they will try and persue, the whole fallout over Project "Legend". They're not dead yet but you are right that IBM realises that open source is a big key to their success and do all they can to make sure SCO is dead for good, making an example for other companies.

There isn't full agreement but most of it is pretty complete. The only non nitpicking issue that people cant agree on is video/audio. Microsoft and Apple want push h.264 into their browsers and push h.264 as a de-facto standard so they advocate against defining a codec in HTML5 (an open standard). Of course they dont support anything else in IE and Safari(for HTML5 video tags)

The other camp: mostly the open source community push for Ogg containers (Theora/Vorbis), despite h.264 is a superior codec Microsoft and Apple have mostly been attakcing it with patent FUD. Opera and Firefox are in the Ogg camp.

While Google has been cooking up VP8, an open codec that is supposed to be on par with h.264. Chrome contains support for Ogg and h.264 and likely in the future VP8 will be adopted by Chrome, Firefox and Opera.

At the end of the day we need an open specific video standard: otherwise it fails to solve the problem Flash started (breaking standards).

I wouldnt count on that buddy. People dont like being censored, trust me there will be reprisals of this.

I am guessing you took offense to the comment I made on a preist opposing an AIDS cure.

When I said I heard a preist say that, I didnt say I heard it on TV, radio or YouTube. What I said was I heard a preist say that (as in he was about 5 meters from me)

And who said I was defending the "neo-protestant cults" as you called them? This was an issue with the Roman Church and they should apologize for their wrongdoings. The first step to reform is owning up to and taking responsibility for your actions (contrary to beliefs about confession and/or prayers). Protestant actions are a little offtopic.

Oh and before you think I know nothing about the church, yes I am a former catholic, raised in a catholic family. Most of my personal grevineces with the church do not come from generalsations or reputaiton but from my personal dealings with them, but again: offtopic Also, flamebait people? Flamebait != disagree.

One thing you have to remember is there is no plans to remove the images from Facebook, Facebook will not remove them as they do not infringe on the terms of service, its not in their best interest to piss off their core base (free speech loving westerners) and the people who uploaded the images have no interest in taking it down.

This "tempoary" block wil lbe around for a long time.

Sounds fair enough, and no I wasn't thinking about Galileo I was thinking of Giordano Bruno, an Italian cleric that was burned at the stake for advocating Copernicus' work.

Why the sprinkle with holy water? What if after the way he was treated he died with nothing but contempt for the Church?

Im all in favor of reburying him as a hero, Im all in favor of an apology (despite its not likely he is able to hear nor accept/reject it due to the account of him being dead and all).

The moral thing the Catholic Church should do is issue an official apology to the scientific community as a whole for its actions, against Copernicus, Galilao, Darwin and every other bright mind they condemned that ended up being right (or laying the groundwork for other breakthroughs).

But of course its not in their nature, after all it's too busy condemning steam cell research and looking for ways to condemn synthetic organisms and preaching that condoms are evil (I also heard one preist say he's against finding a cure/treatment for AIDS as it would promote sexual immorality.)

Enough people boycott Facebook, he will be replaced.

Your machine was already borked if you had Me on it.

Cowboy Neil hosts my docs you insensative clod!

And why is that our problem? Because you decided to have 4 kids you dont have time to look after properly makes it OK for the state to infringe on our liberties?

Ask Kevin Rudd that, I would be interested in his answer.

You know theres an entire anime genre dedicated to that sort of thing

So it seems.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/11/2816658.htm