Warn all those stupid interns that sitting at home depressed is better than working for nothing.

HTML5 is the new codeword for "dump everything you have and start over!"

C/C++ is the future (and the past). Like it or not, C/C++ is truly the only write once, run everywhere (except Windows Phone) solution around.

Many of these passwords are a consequence of a person not wanting to write down their passwords for fear of the written down password being found. Thus, instead of creating an effective, hard to guess (and hard to remember) password, many people simply come up with a password that is easy to remember, but that they hope is so random, or so obvious, that nobody would guess.

I teach my children, even the little ones, the old trick of coming up with an easy to remember sentence, picking the first letter of each word, and changing one or more characters to a number of symbol. They like the challenge, and create some reasonably tough passwords to guess.

From cash registers to first the computer to win Jeopardy. Amazing.

I can understand govt watchdogging; we need that. But she's not even in the govt.

A solid open source offering should not be based on the cloud, but based on a P2P model, because cloud storage is too centralized a model and someone will have to pay for it. P2P file sharing has been providing DropBox-like functionality for years. But both the smarmy reputation and the lack of file system integration left an opening for DropBox.

I thought Jobs was a pinko back in the day?

Gates understood, according to his testimony in the Clinton Justice Dept case, that it only takes one mistake to wipe a company out. This comes right on the heels of the location scare. This could blow up into "next they'll shutdown cameras during a Rodney King beating", and iPhone becomes the Brave New World gateway device.

AAPL must come out quickly and deal with this, otherwise this news could send customers and devs right into Android's welcoming arms.

Believe it:

According to Zhao Jian, a researcher at Beijing Jiaotong University, “the debt had at least reached 2 trillion yuan by now, and the interests of those debts have grown too large for the government to afford.” http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/02/18/will-massive-debt-derail-chinas-high-speed-trains/?KEYWORDS=china+high+speed+train

Bitcoin only has to be 'interesting'. Watching the bitcoin drama is like watching a reality tv show. There are at least as many uninformed haters as there are curious gawkers.

For those who want bitcoin to go away, just stop commenting on it.

C++ is the most cross-platform language available. You can write native apps on Windows, iOS, Android, WebOS, RIM's OS, Nokia's flavor of the month, etc

MSFT is now looking to update their C++ offering by renaming it WinC++. See for yourself: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/what-is-winc-and-how-does-it-figure-in-microsofts-bid-to-make-tools-a-2-billion-business/9359

I don't remember slashdot covering the demise of Flight Simulator. Just sayin.

If MSFT could kill off VB6 they would, but there's just too much investment in LOB apps, and business owners are not going to pay to port those apps to another platform when whey work just fine now.

MSFT has to convince business that building on a MSFT platform is cost effective. Cross platform is cost effective right now (iOS + Windows). As more LOB apps are built on Android, MSFT has an even bigger problem b/c none of those VB6 or .Net apps will run on anything but Windows (desktops).

If these were 20 somethings riding the bandwagon of a new hot dev language, yes. But these are corporate career devs who banked on .NET as a way to feed their families and remain competitive.

This is simply a 2nd order effect of the huge surprise (to AAPL and everyone else) that is iOS. Windows is no longer the only game in town. Corporate buyers of technology are seriously evaluating iOS as a LOB (line of business) app development platform. In response, MSFT, like any highly competitive business, is adjusting to market forces. Cross-platform dev is the business play for the near future, and corporate buyers are demanding cross-platform solutions.