that we as a civilization are still boasting about our abilities to do harm towards one another when we're losing the only battle that matters: the battle to save Earth.

Seems to make the most sense to me: phone + high-quality KVM experience = what 99% of the population wants.

but I kind of secretly hope for Internet Armageddon. I just fscking hate technology nowadays.

I'd love to be able to come home, dock my phone into a charging KVM station, and use it like a desktop.

hiding as an Apple process?

Take your pops to good ol' Ninite.com. Have him create an installer of all the apps he wishes to use and keep up-to-date, and either run it as a scheduled task (there's some command line switches to make this doable) or if he's like my Dad, he'll write it in the kitchen calendar and never miss running it himself manually. Once you build the installer, it's a run-and-wait thing; doesn't require any other steps, he can just keep running the same Ninite installer every week/month.

This is what lawyers do when they're either on retainer or an employee of a big company: justify their existence with litigation and copyright enforcement.

My thoughts exactly. What's the use case for a voting machine? I think the Ruby on Rails blog demo had more fields than a typical vote screen.

At least there's a log file. B-b-but iStuff just works! Umm, no, sometimes it doesn't... I guess I'll just swipe the on/off button for the 15th time, see if that makes a difference.

Yes, or some idiot ARP spoofing the gateway (if the AP doesn't provide client isolation).

If you play any kind of tactical shooter, or turn-based/real-time strategy, you're going to want to play it on a computer. There's just no comparison to a proper keyboard and mouse setup for more-involved, complex games.

One word (well, kind of two): RemoteApps.

This. We can't wait for the Surface so we can deploy RemoteApp (Remote Desktop Services, i.e. Terminal Server) versions of our legacy applications.

All the Executive types see these Apple iPad ads where Doctors are manipulating ultrasounds, or sales guys showing off an amazing PowerPoint deck and we're the ones who have to bring them back down to earth with, "well, it doesn't really work like that because your ERP system doesn't have a native iPhone app".

... and the impending death of Windows/PC as an open, general-computing platform by the hands of Microsoft. He didn't mention tablets once in his tweets.

Slashdot needs an edit feature. You're right. My bad. Had a different train of thought originally.