"Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison." -Bryan Cantrill

So...yes

New Carnivorous Beast Discovered? In Madagascar? SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!

Is that a Barbra Streisand song I hear?

I think every website that lists all these varied diseases should put a rarity score next to each illness. That way when you think you've got Wilson's disease, you can look and see with a simple number how unlikely it is.

You said "The lie is inherently always more harmful than telling the truth." and "There is ample evidence of this no matter where you look." You are the one making the assertion. The burden of proof is on you, not me. You have to provide the evidence. All you are doing is repeating the same thing over and over and giving weak examples which don't prove your assertion.

You said "The lie is inherently always more harmful than telling the truth." The key word here is "ALWAYS." Which means you need to provide proof that the truth is always better than a lie, in every situation. You cannot simply provide a few examples where the truth is better than a lie. That would be proof by example, which is a logical fallacy.

Ok, where is your ample evidence? I'm gonna need to see proof that in EVERY situation a lie is always more harmful than telling the truth.

Yeah, this is a sneaky underhanded move from Apple, and despite good points (The flash compiler is a piece of shit and/or Adobe blows!) it still reeks of them throwing their weight around as the dominant smartphone platform to try to hurt Adobe. This is why, even though I love the changes iPhone OS 4.0 gives us, I'm probably done with the iPhone as soon as my 3GS dies. It's taken 3+ years to get access to features that have been possible since months after the platform came out (Jailbreaking), and we're still subject to the whims of Apple. If Adobe was really serious, they'd eliminate support for all their Software on all Apple platforms. We can only hope that they do, which in a perfect world, would eliminate Flash as a dominant standard AND take Apple down a peg or two. One can hope.

This seems like a security nightmare waiting to happen. I understand everything would likely be virtualized, but it just makes me nervous that you would be able to rent time on servers that interact with the stock market, especially considering how panicky the market can be, and how badly everyone suffers when it does panic.

"However some school officials are concerned about the social and emotional implications of 16-year-olds going off to college." Community college is like 13th grade. If they're mature enough to work to graduate 2 years early, they'll be fine.

From gizmodo.com: However, it appears the service is pretty gimped as you can't call Skype out to regular lines domestically in order to save minutes. Even on AT&T (of all carriers), the fring iPhone app allows Skype-out calling (even though the Skype app still technically does not). When Verizon allows domestic Skype-out, we'll celebrate in full.

Technology is so fucking cool. I really love it when people do amazing things like this and prove how useful it all is.

The quickest thing Google can do to lose the confidence of its users is be Two-Faced. With all the recent privacy concerns, if Google starts acting one way after saying "Don't be Evil," it's going to make everyone question if Google can be trusted. Can they?