I can't say that I've followed the whole secure boot thing too closely, but if history tells us anything, you just KNOW that it will be designed/implemented wrong and will be hacked around before you know it. I would not count on it being your be-all-end-all protection mechanism.

And to think we somehow thought maybe they were better than everybody else...

That's exactly how I'm reading it too. So it's ok to run this pile of garbage code, but not good enough to look at and quite possibly improve. Does that make it official that Google just doesn't 'get it' when it comes to open source?

New York and Miami are state capitals? Man, I'll bet Albany and Tallahassee will be pretty pissed to learn that.

Except that it's been around for far too long. At least HTML5 is new and may be able to get things right.

If Adobe was able to actually make Flash ubiquitous and platform independent, it wouldn't suck so bad and would actually be used for much more useful stuff. If you look at Java, even as much as Sun screwed the pooch with it, they got it onto dang near any and every platform and it worked pretty much the same on every one. Flash on Windows works alright, on Linux it lags way behind (64 bit version in beta for how many years now???). Mac version buggy and crash prone, no availability on mobile devices. Doesn't really sound like a standard at all. Sounds like a 'feature' just waiting to be replaced by the thing that actually works.