Since Firefox does not support MP3 or AAC, and IE/Safari do not support OGG they would have to do it in Flash unless they are transcoding server side or only supporting certain browsers.
If it is your credit card information, you would seem to be the victim. In that case Sony is playing the role similar to the US government and is only offering you a shirt instead of a bullet proof vest.
The original analogy though is only accurate depending on where this is taking place. A person living in the suburbs would seem silly for wearing a bullet proof vest. A person walking into a war zone without a vest is an idiot. The question is, which of the two locations best describes the internet.
Doubtful since Netflix already runs on several Linux devices, most notably the Roku, the Boxee Box and the WD Live TV. Just like with android devices it all comes down to built DRM which regular Linux distributions will not support.
Amazon should put an upper bound on the maximum price a product can be. Can credit card companies even process a transaction in the tens of millions of dollars?
They should redesign the header so that the site title looks like an actual header instead of a large text box. I spent a while trying to click on it to enter in my own site to check.
Ever since the redesign their sites are almost unusable on my machine. When will sites realize that floating part of the page so that only part of it scrolls not only leads to lag but also makes for a visually confusing user experience. Slashdot did this exact thing with their header when they redesigned their site several months ago, luckily they have since switched to a fixed header.
Not only that, but I seem to get a 2px gray line that fills the width of the page and scrolls with the content. Ever since the redesign, every time I stumble upon one of their pages I click the back button.
But if that was not enough, they traded a system where each site had its own look and feel for one where every site looks exactly the same (except for a small logo in the header).
ub.com and pokerstars.com both resolve to their original servers (77.87.179.116 & 66.212.231.205) using either Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8) or Level3's (4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2)
The nonstandard part seems to be that the owner of the site ends up being responsible for any of the ads that show up on the parked page. So if I were to register kidsexchange.com and forgot about I would be liable for any ads being shown there containing child pornography.
Arguing that Google stole the idea of 'Mapping Parties' seems a bit silly. Claiming that OSM invented the idea of 'Mapping Parties' is even more ridiculous than claiming that Apple invented the term 'App Store'.
The argument that MapMaker is harmful to open source efforts has a bit more merit. With MapMaker users contribute mapping information for free without the ability to actually make use of that data later on. OpenStreetMaps on the other hand provides a Creative Commons license for all of the map data.
That reminds me of the guy who tried to become the ultimate shopper by mailing people a copy of the UPC from his Safeway discount card with the intention that they would stick it over their UPC code. http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/safeway/ultimate_shopper.html