According to statcounter, Google still has an 83% share in the US...

+ was redundant. The only time it made a difference was for single words, and you can now achieve the same thing with quotes.

Before:

foo +bar
"foo bar"
+"foo bar" (this is the same as just "foo bar")

After:

foo "bar"
"foo bar"
"foo bar"

Erm, blackboards are still used...

Also, why do neither of these articles have the sounds to listen to? Seriously, this is as bad as all those articles about imaging that don't have pictures...

That's exactly what they want!

Seriously? Next you'll be posting about water-powered cars, or over unity devices...

Can we stick to real life please?

Nope, the patent is quite specific about there being an actual graphical thing that is dragged, and that there are graphical cues for the gesture.

Wouldn't work. You can still only send HTTP or websockets, and websockets have hand-shaking and framing that you can't remove.

Well obviously. The client is written in HTML5. If you knew anything at all about HTML5 you'd know it is impossible to write a "true" ssh client using HTML5. Instead this connects to a python server which then goes on to connect to the actual sshd. The point is that you don't need an ssh binary installed on the client.

You could actually remove ssh from the equation, but it looks like the gate server allows you to connect to *any* ssh server, so I guess that's why they didn't do that.

It won't. Everyone is already very aware of how much the world needs better battery technology, and how valuable such technology would be.

Seriously? The appearance on Top Gear was infamous for being unfairly staged! Top Gear hates electric cars!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/30/tesla-sue-top-gear

Well that's revisionist history. I seem to remember adding video to flash was a brilliant move that secured their dominance by providing a web video playing experience that actually worked. All the other solutions at the time were awful, unreliable, slow, and browser/OS-specific. Flash actually worked.

The fact that people talk today about replacing Flash with a video codec shows how completely unused flash would be if it didn't become entrenched as the de facto video player plugin.

You can work out the energy like this:

The height is 5 mm. Weight is, (we'll be generous) 100 kg. So the energy is at most 5 joules per step. Generating 2.1 W therefore needs 1 step every couple of seconds, which sounds like a reasonable maximum. So even the pathetic 2.1W figure is hopelessly optimistic.

2.1 watts! We could power... a few LEDs! Or... a calculator!

Seriously, what idiot bought this?

Haha, you realise that AACS key was revoked years ago and is now useless? AACS is actually very well designed, and still hasn't been cracked, in the normal sense of the word.

Haha, I love all the silly little nit picks that slashdotters try to come up with to show off their knowledge. Do you *really* think ozone production would be a problem?