Maybe I'm thick, but I don't understand why, if Google's so interested in freeing up a video codec for use as a standard, they don't just apply some of their legendary minds to fixing OGG Vorbis. Is it so fundamentally flawed that not even Google and their legions of high-powered open-source minds can't make it better than H.264?

That's soooooo nerdy my brain hurts. Well played!

Sites that succeeded despite, not because of, their easy-to-pronounce single or double-syllable names.

I don't think he was complaining that he didn't understand it. It's a poorly marketable name. Sounds like a pill for incontinence.

Yes amazingly enough, Bell Canada does charge in Canadian Dollars. Unless Bill 454-A passes, and we all pray that it will.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I hope they're not suggesting it's unethical of Google to work with these typo-squatters, because it simply isn't. Now, if the typo-squatters were trying to trick people into thinking they'd reached where they were attempting to get, that would be unethical.

It's becoming a moot point, anyway... Most people I know type the web address into the Google search box, then click on the link that appears.

I know... It's a vicious cycle. But don't kid yourself - It's dumbing down in the name of marketing.

What? Yeah, I got the reference.

It's stupid chest-beating bill-marketing terminology aimed below most people's intellect, because that's how the bill authors see us. The intent and effect of the bill is irrelevant here. It just irks me that they feel they need to dumb it down for us. Instead of 'Information Technology Security Official', it's 'Cyber Warrior'. How gauche.

Why is it that the Government, when referring to IT matters, always uses terminology like that... What is this, the United States of Johnny Mnemonic?

I think it's because they, like celebrities now and explorers of old, act as a sort of life proxy for people who can't get out of dead-end jobs, and bills up to the eyeballs. So when they go into space, or conquer that mountain, or, uh, win the Amazing Race, people feel like they've been there with them in a small way - it's the collective adventurer's spirit. When they died, especially in such a public manner, it blew apart people's expectations and took a bit of their hope with it.

At least, that's my rationale.

Isn't there some sort of exclusion in the law for copyrighting materials that have major public importance? I'm probably just crazy.

Hey... I can't be held accountable for how you interpret it!

I still blame Kid Rock.