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... That might be the deepest thing I've ever read.

Also, here's Attenborough narrating this article http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o

Steve doesn't understand his own article. The whole point is that they're changing for completely new functionality. These aren't improvements of the existing flash player, they're completely new additions. And beyond that the vast majority of devs will never even have to think about it. You have to make over $50k with your flash product and you have to use the premium features.

Weather you like flash or not, these new features are great for online and ios game developers and cost Adobe a lot of time and money. Also weather you think about it or not, many of the mobile games you play are written in actionscript and running in Adobe air and air apps are specifically exempt from the fees.

So all in all, this is interesting news, but it's in no way as dramatic or devastating as some people would like to believe.

None of this is any different than basic capitalism. Now this isn't an anti-capitalism rant, it's just an observation. Rite-Aide and Walmart can buy entire city blocks and run their businesses at a loss for years to fake out and overcome honest citizens' businesses and we celebrate their success.

I suspect if people could invest in spammers there'd be a different public perception of them.

Outstanding work that I'm sure is going to inspire a lot of people. Though I don't see a license file anywhere.

Possibly the worst part is that this happened to us(and is still affecting us) in almost exact detail during the prohibition of the 20s and yet we continue to shrug our shoulders and keep giving them more money.

A good editor will show you that too.

text wrangler: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html

redcar: http://redcareditor.com/

but you're really not gonna get any better than textmate or sublime text 2

"Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation."

I'm no expert opinion, but seems a bit unnecessary and that bcrypt is still a perfectly good choice for most password stores.

Blunder my ass, sounds like abuse of power that, against the police hopes, ended up being checked.

While many programmers are religious about their tool chain there are very legitimate reasons for wanting a standardized dev environment especially with an IDE that does things like syntax homogenization for you. Without more details it's impossible to tell weather this specific individual case would really benefit from the mandate in spite of upsetting the comfort of their devs.

MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Functi...

short stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/500431/javascript-variabl...

Along with the fee and abusive questionnaire at this site https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/ we've also got this lovely informational site http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1262.html and tons of other fees http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1263.html . Then of course after you've paid all your fees and told the US government all about your diseases, mental illness, and intention to spy on them, you still have to give them your fingerprints, photo, submit to a search, wait in line for 2 hours, and answer many more questions about the same stuff.

It's not xenophobia. It's full on we think we're better than you and you pathetic humans get to deal with us 'cos we said so. The whole system wreaks of 'cos we said so. Every citizen and border patrol agent knows it's excessive and ineffective, but we keep on truckin' cos hey, they're all just doing their, trained to be overly aggressive, jobs.

This is also super interesting: "His parole conditions prevented him from doing anything to hide or lock digital files."

So if convicted of a crime they can require you to not use basic personal and identity safety measures.