Are you kidding me! This is where we need better civics lessons - you should absolutely have an opinion and voice it to your elected representatives - and encouraging other too as well! It's called democracy.

Sadly, even Slashdot has succumbed to the hate politics so prevalent in the US at the moment. Watching the commentary on this story is as intellectually enlightening as watching the mainstream media with talking heads and rants. What happened - you guys get bought by Fox?

The research was for full plug-in battery powered cars - of which Tesla is getting the most press. What is the research on hybrids? My 70+ in-laws are on their second hybrid car in Australia, and retirees don't quite fit this demographic. I'd argue Mark72005's line that people are not interested in green or renewable - there's a lot of interest, but also a lot of hype and scepticism. This type of somewhat biased research (or reporting of research) doesn't help.

Actually that's exactly the point... the app store is Apple's property and they can use it as they see fit. If I have a convenience store and I choose not to sell porn that's my business decision. I forgo the option of that revenue. You do not have the right to walk into my store and demand that I cater to your desire - I do that as a business decision.

The supreme court gave away one of the last vestiges of individual liberty by enshrining corporations as bodies with first amendment rights. Corporate profits are now more important than you are, so don't worry. Next they'll have 4th amendment rights - and have private armies - wait, those are called contractors in foreign wars...

I couldn't be called a Micro$oft fan, but VML (while as painful as programming a TI-38) was useful in IE only environments (a man has to eat), and Microsoft tried to go down the standards route (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML). The fact that VML was never adopted outside of IE, combined with lack of features, effectively killed it. What I did find annoying was the fact that MS locked down the office extensions to VML rather than continuing down a standards path - all those pretty pictures you can generated in power point can't be generated in the browser.