This, specifically the fight with Google. I had two projects that were good candidates for a Java solution, both of which were delayed while the the supreme court case moved forward. Once the issue was settled one of the delayed projects moved forward with Java, the other had been canceled.
The delayed reaction in the surveys absolutely matches my experience. Business likes certainty, and now that we know that Oracle can't demand an intrusive license for all things that use Java APIs, business feel it's safe to swim in the Java pool again.

Hasn't startpage.com been doing this for over a decade? Why do I need an extension?
Mint + Firefox + uBlock Origin + startpage

Both Microsoft and Sony missed a huge opportunity: two player shared / overlayed console games on a single TV. Each player sees their own 2D screen on the same shared 3D-capable TV set.
Take 2 pairs of passive 3D glasses and swap the lenses so one pair has 2 right lenses and the other has 2 left lenses. Each player then sees only one of the two stereoscopic images. The console can then show different content to each of the two players (or two "teams" if playing with more people).
For example, in a setting up your football offensive call, player 1 can make their selection, while player 2 sees their defensive screen. Then each player sees the play from their own side's perspective. It works very well for driving games, where each player sees their own cockpit and HUD, but some content like the map are the same. The best demo was a single screen game (like Towerfall), but each had their own privately visible power-ups, and when a character became "cloaked" player 1 could still see their character but the opponent player couldn't. Cool stuff.
I did some preliminary work on this a long while back, but it became clear neither Microsoft nor Sony was interested. We did some demos on the now defunct OUYA.

Did you watch the video? IT'S AN INTERVIEW. Most of it is state-of-the-industry type questions. He is asked about what to buy, he gives an answer.

In the end he recommends a 47", passive glasses technology, and smart TV features are nice but not a deal breaker. Doesn't sound like a shill to me, that happens to be exactly what I would recommend to a friend.

He is brand agnostic. Listen to the part where he talks about smart TV features - he praises Roku, Apple TV and WD. He discusses how a modern Blu-ray player makes the embedded Smart TV features irrelevant and warns against manufactures "double dipping".

Sure you can be pissed at /. for giving us a piece that is too consumer oriented, but it clearly is not endorsing any brand or sales outlet.

Watch the video. (is WTFV the new RTFM?)

No, now is not the time.

A new name implies a new focus, new processes, or at least a new mission attitude.

To rename it now is to embrace the department's need for PR image update, but without a clear new mandate it is just enabling 10 years of the same outdated behavior.

I appreciate the humor of the OP but this is the kind of idea I could see being promoted in the halls of DHS.

If you watch any of the numerous interviews with Chandra in the past few weeks you can see this comment in context. He is bashing all other Android tablets in an effort to differentiate his new product. He readily admits he has learned many lessons from the joojoo, but "poor carbon copy" and "rip-off" are digs at what came after the iPad release.

Remember this is a consumption device that can be used for the occasional tweet or post, not a programmer's device.

They made a good start by zapping the PrintScreen/ScrollLock/Pause/NumLock/Insert/CapsLock buttons. But there is so much more to be done in creating the perfect consumption netbook keyboard.

They made the up/down buttons too small and took away many of the nav keys (PgUp, PgDn, Home, End). This is a big deal. I'm actually not suggesting they return these keys but perhaps re-invent the keyboard navigation. I'd love to see a variable rocker switch embedded in the keyboard with scroll wheel functionality where a single tap is a one-line move and a strong press is equivalent to a PgUp/PgDn keystroke. I'm not an HCI expert but a new human-centric keyboard navigation paradigm is needed.

Also: Take away the programmer's keyboard keys - back-quote, square braces, and backslash keys - and move them to Alt- keystrokes (back quote on the quotes key, backslash on the /? key, pipe on the ;: key, square braces on the ,lt.gt keys, curly braces on the 9(0) keys, tilda on the 6^ key) This way they are still there but not taking up valuable real estate.

The one mistake in my mind is zapping the Delete key. I can't write a post without both backspace and delete keys.

The last big change they should have made is putting in "B"old and "i"talic keys, putting them in place of the CapsLock key. It would be fairly easy to support them in all Google's sites (just put support into their various frameworks) and the rest of the world would follow soon enough. Although this is my preference I can see why they chose a "Search" button, after all this is a search company.

As for focusing on CapsLock, this is an non-issue as the double tap Shift functionality is already well established in the Google ecosystem, but I do appreciate the way it has gotten everyone thinking about how to evolve the old keyboard again.

I changed my key caps and switch to the Dvorak layout for a couple of months. After 2 weeks I was up to speed, and found it seamless to switch between QWERTY and Dvorak.

The killer was the shortcut keys. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V were chosen more for their proximity on the QWERTY keyboard than for the letters they represent. I know the shortcut keys from muscle memory of their locations, not from the underlying letter keys. Even simple cutting and pasting is painful on Dvorak, and more advanced shortcut keys are a nightmare.

We may all lament the lack of foresight when the first IBM PC designers chose to use the stock QWERTY keyboard, but there was another opportunity at the dawn of the GUI. Had the assignment of shortcut keys been made location specific and layout independent, the switch to Dvorak or any other layout would have been a simple personal choice; but that day has come and gone.

I've no doubt your raw WPM will go up after a couple weeks of Dvorak use, but I'll bet your overall productivity goes down. You will either struggle with shortcut keys of find yourself resorting to using the mouse for menu selections.

I reluctantly quit Dvorak and went back to QWERTY.

Fairly soon I'm sure I'll want to get blu-ray quality movies digitally. At $.25/GB that will be $5.00 just for the digital transportation costs of the disc, let alone the price for the movie. Um, no thanks. I think I can do better with UPS.