My thoughts exactly. Everyone is complaining about how bandwidth is becoming more and more scarce, new cable should mitigate that as well, right?

TFA is about TLDs, not SLDs?

I think you missed the "one handed input" bit of TFA

I noticed the same thing. Looking at the previous top 10 list I noticed that the old Tianhe-I has the exact same performance as new 1A one

^ this.

Minecraft should be made contraband, just like Heroin

I see it as a bad thing:

1) Not all developers have credit cards. My country is a perfect example. Since online payment is (sadly) still a relatively new term for our local banks, you need to go through a lot of hoops to get an "internet-capable" debit card (some require security deposits even though it is a debit card, others require additional paperwork, etc). By default you just get a Visa Electron card which doesn't work online.

2) There are some young developers who just want to play around and might produce some very creative things, but will be repelled by the fact that they need to ask their parents for CC. They'll just go ahead and make some cool stuff for Firefox instead.

3) Why $5 and not just $1 or .5? I bet that there are some third world countries where paying $5 just to be able to submit your non-commercial web browser extension is a lot. If they wanted this as an authenticity tool, any (lower) value would work as well.

6000 extensions * $5 = I don't see the point of this in, terms of income

On the other hand, I know that in some countries (my included), obtaining an online payment credit card is a frustrating process. Most (IT-oriented) people around me don't have CCs, and that is, simply put, a major loss of potential Chrome Extension developers.

iTunes is generally a pain to work with. You can, however, disable automatic updating.

I would recommend using some alternative software, such as CopyTrans Manager or similar. You still need iTunes installed because of iPod/iPhone drivers, but there are ways of extracting drivers from iTunes installer, without actually installing iTunes itself (a short tutorial can be found here)

btw, CTM works only with Windows :/

Does it matter? All you have to do is stay away from iTunes' automatic updates and your iPhone will be jailbreakable. At least until Apple starts shipping new 4s with updated firmware.