Sorry, but if you read TFA it says it affected OSX too.

Actually, there's shitloads of big sites hosted on Amazon and other big platforms. On their last outage (which really doesn't happen often, compared to other solutions) they were named out. Look at the older stories here on slashdot regarding Amazon cloud.

I know it is the usual thing to hate on slashdot, but Solaris combined with cloud hosting works wonders for our company. It's generally much more easier to deploy than Linux based distros, and comes with extra performance. Our sites usually have a stable amount of traffic, but sometimes it peaks, and those are the times we really want the website to perform well. Solaris+Cloud hosting is perfect for that. As fallback, we have Azure, which also performs really good, but it requires extra work as it's different platform. But generally, scalable cloud hosting really is good for hosting big traffic sites.

Go ahead and please demonstrate. How will you make create outbound connection to you?

I enjoy coding greatly. But even before I started working, I saw that coding for work will ruin the fun for me. So I got a job in related industry where I can greatly use my coding experience in my advantage, but isn't really about coding. It's like with game testers - if you test games for living, it will take the fun of playing any games from you. Now I work in other industry, but I'm a really handy guy around (both for others, and for myself) because of my extra ability to code, suggest things about computer security and everything else IT-related. This not only ensures I don't ruin the fun from coding, but makes me more valuable to any company (as per the extra stuff I can do) and I find work generally more interesting.

Yeah, that's exactly my experience about Silverlight DRM too. I looked up about it after wanting to take a few segments of video that was streamed via Silverlight, but it seemed impossible to do.

Well, Netflix isn't available in my country, but the television stations here use it. So if you want to watch their shows online, you have to install it. It probably comes from the fact it's much harder to download Silverlight streamed videos than Flash ones.

I don't think MS is paying any "bribe money" to Netflix. They only chose Silverlight because it supports better DRM methods than Flash, as of course required by content producers.

It's not made to compete with traditional PC or console games. It's made for mobile phones, and for those it's an excellent game. You can launch it quickly, the levels don't really take that long to play (great for quickly playing with phone when you're waiting for something) and the physics make it fun. I can't really think of other mobile phone games which would be more fun and suiting. Maybe some tower defense games, but those aren't as quick to play as levels take a long time. You basically need to pause the game and later continue from where you left.

It's exactly for that reason. It's always funny when people try to find some deeper reason in simple things, over-analyzing things.

And do you honestly think that MW3 is only worth of 2/10 rating? This is exactly why user ratings there are shit.

What does NAT have to do with ISP? Just forward the ports you need to.

Personally I think not being directly connectable (ie., behind NAT) is good security wise. It acts as a nice and easy firewall.

Maybe the problem is in your own closed mindset. I play all kinds of games, they're all great in their own ways. Only genre I don't find interesting is platforms, but I don't bash those who do. So loosen it up a bit and try different things (not just with games), you come out as really bitter and angry guy.

Oh yes, because you obviously can't enjoy different kind of games. If someone plays MW3, there's just no way he could also play other games.