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More transparency is always good. [thanks Anna] - Brett Cannon

What Schneier added to the end in his edit is priceless! - Brett Cannon

Getting this right will be critical. And with the W3C already saying they don't want to continue pushing localStorage that means something needs to take it's place so that offline apps will work. - Brett Cannon

Amen. - Brett Cannon

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Bloody terrorists! They continue to be incompetent (meaning I don't worry) and yet they still continue to inconvenience me. God I wish someone would take over the TSA who had the balls to clean it up and make it reasonable. - Brett Cannon

I'll be there from December 22nd until December 28th. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Brett Cannon

DSLRs continue to be impressive for video. - Brett Cannon

Obviously a GPL-leaning commenter as BSD folks don't worry about this kind of thing. As for a solution to their worry, more web apps help (as long as there is not a significant server portion to the app). Otherwise just the usual preference of techies choosing open source or getting the app stores to flag open source apps as a security thing or something (but that will never happen). - Brett Cannon

If those 5% - 7% numbers for IE6 are accurate, it would seem to suggest that for English-only sites it is not worth dealing with that horrible browser. Regardless, I am glad that I don't do any commercial work where I have to care. HTML5 or bust for me! - Brett Cannon

Rather unfortunate the ACM is not supporting the open releasing of government-funded papers in a central location. Unfortunately for me the ACM controls almost all major CS conferences so I can't even contemplate not submitting as a form of protest. But I definitely won't become a member when I graduate. - Brett Cannon

Kind of a cool idea. I could see this working with Python's issue tracker. - Brett Cannon

Very smart way of doing bookmarklets. [thanks Adewale] - Brett Cannon

Hopefully the popularity of the Motorola Droid will show phone manufacturers that you don't need to muck with the Android GUI to make a popular phone. - Brett Cannon

Should make it that much easier to find an open WiFi access point (which is still hard to do here in Canada). - Brett Cannon

$120 in fees for advertising and such? That's a load of crap. And why only smartphones? Are you telling me Verizon doesn't advertise any other way except for smartphone users, meaning all other user types are accidental? - Brett Cannon

[thanks Alon] - Brett Cannon

For more reasons how Canada is losing its integrity internationally, see http://thetyee.ca/Opinion... . - Brett Cannon

This is page 2 of the interview and I shared it because I totally agree with what he is saying about how America now views Socialism, how stupid it is, and how fucked up it is to have the Senate. - Brett Cannon

Wow, having the Idaho comparison really puts the cost in perspective. [thanks Alon] - Brett Cannon

Seriously, they thought they wouldn't figure this out? These people recruit online! They obviously have some technological chops. - Brett Cannon

[thanks Brad] - Brett Cannon

Python has a similar issue of developers who have not been actively contributing for years and yet feel like they should be allowed to sway decisions based on past contributions. - Brett Cannon

[thanks Anthony] - Brett Cannon

"After a movie recently I went to the Irish Heather for dinner w/ my girlfriend and a friend and then stayed at the Shebeen for drinks. Food was reasonably good (and definitely good for a bar). Staff…" - Brett Cannon

[thanks Damon] - Brett Cannon

I would go as far as to automatically reverse hack German machines that are infected and patch them for the user. - Brett Cannon

First Kayak, now Plurk. MS's track record for ripping off other web sites is getting worse. - Brett Cannon

Amazing how hypocritical people can be. [Thanks Collin] - Brett Cannon

Another good post on the MySQL debacle, and once again on the side of Oracle. - Brett Cannon