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The answer is yes . Hulu has regularly blocked Flash-enabled devices through various (often circumventable, but still) means. It's just that you never hear about them.

I feel like Google is constantly launching Facebook killers and waiting to see what will stick. They have so many different social networks and feed mechanisms that it's hard to di…

Please, no . This is terrifying. Let us browse without JavaScript and in peace. Please.

HTC has been building giant-touchscreen-type phones for years. Windows Mobile is not some kind of cheap Blackberry ripoff; it's a Palm ripoff, a lot closer to the iPhone when it ca…

There's a conference call scene in this (relevant, interesting, funny) video which I think applies to this topic: http://www.theonion.com/video/more-american-workers-outsourc... I …

The points you make are disturbing. As far as I can tell, the reason why people shy away from SEO is not that it doesn't work. Indeed, it seems like people shy away from SEO becaus…

It's a textbook. Flash doesn't matter. The content needs to be there. I've read textbooks on my iPad before; for the most part, it works OK. There doesn't appear to be any big adva…

They lacked metallurgy, banking, agricultural technology... The Industrial Revolution was built on hundreds of years of slow progress and access to tons of natural resources. The A…

So far, technology has solved all problems. What else is there?

Palm?

Extra cloaking for malicious links? Bit.ly can't exactly check the original site to see if it's OK if it's hidden behind a funky redirection layer. I think that bit.ly was reasonab…

Well - you basically made the exact reply he was expecting. I think that letting serial killers out of jail is a bad idea, yes. The reason why we should keep serial killers in jail…

wine also works considerably better on OpenGL, as I understand it. A movement toward OpenGL usage would bring immediate benefits to Linux gamers.

Embedding Google Maps in one's own site would probably be a better solution. It also helps if you have a bunch of reference points concentrated in the UK or in some other small reg…

It's come to the point where I actively avoid SEO-optimized sites on Google. If I see my search terms in the URL ("how-to-become-a-travel-agent") of a result, I'll just skip over i…

He went on to say that they were so focused on revenues in the early days of Zynga that they did some things he didn't like. He then mentioned the Zwinky toolbar and said he instal…

Those are device developer programs, though. XNA for PC is free, and pretty much all major desktop PC development tracks are free. iPhone/XBox/etc are a different story (and my und…

If people are complaining about their articles getting cut, doesn't that mean that they care about those articles and would maintain them? Wikipedia is actively spurning volunteers…

Note: This is a PlayStation game! It's a key fact which you have to keep in mind when reading this article and considering it for use on PCs. Console copy protection is today impor…

Isn't this mainly an aesthetic thing, though? Consumer text-to-speech is certainly adequate for vocalizing almost any conversation. One could just use that to carry out "covert voi…

Tree-style tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 Still not matched anywhere else. The bogging-down from ridiculous numbers of Firefox tabs may soon force me to …

Yes, it was (how else do you use Flash, anyway?). It worked in IE mobile and I believe there were tricks to get it to work in other browsers (Opera). There was Flash Lite and a nor…

Bizarrely, Flash Player has been available for Windows Mobile for years and nobody has noticed. Windows Mobile also has a YouTube app and most of the other major apps, but they're …

Android? Chromium? These are not exactly traditional desktop OSes. Ubuntu I'll concede, but if they're putting Android on it by default it will be a lot closer to the iPad than to …