The article makes this situation comparable to the current wikileaks situation, which it isn't.

Some IT person left the data freely accessible on the internet and eventually a crawler found it. They're guessing it was a malicious person but in all odds it is not.

This is just another IT mistake not an act of whistleblowing or terrorism or something else the government wants to make illegal.

The society and both the rich man and the poor also prevents the poor from simply stealing from the rich man. Society benefits the rich man by protecting his goods, therefore the rich man owes something back. The poor man contributes to society (not all poor people are poor because they're "lazy") therefore also deserves some benefit.

A civilized society benefits all. All should benefit from living in a society.

Sounds like they simply corrected a disease that was purposefully inflicted upon the mice. I don't see this as "Aging reversed" more like "Abnormally quick aging can be corrected."

I believe the end of the Nature article link agrees. It also points out that shortening telomeres isn't the only thing that causes aging and it's defects.

That said, this is a good baby step forward.

Thank you for informing me of legitimate Flash uses. Those and Hulu, that someone else mentioned, are good uses of Flash.

However, I do still think that the lack of Flash support isn't a way to shoot yourself in the foot. Apple obviously didn't support it. I'm just wondering if any other companies will follow suit because of whatever reason or do they really believe Flash is a must-have.

Does Flash support really make or break the deal when buying a smartphone or a tablet? Do people really double think that iPhone/iPad purchase just because of Flash? Does anyone even on Slashdot go Android just because of Flash?

Maybe I'm biased as I have an iPad but lacking Flash is a minor annoyance at best. If I switched to some other OS for a tablet or smartphone, Flash support is way at the bottom of the list of features I would switch for.

Personally, I think Flash needs to just die as it's only used for games and annoying ads.

Also, I really don't see why Flash should be in the headline. Unless BlackBerry is really targetting the Farmville segment of users.

Most phone/devices do not get updates, even premium ones. How many other consumer devices that are 3 years old still get updates?

My 1st Gen iPhone isn't getting the updates either. Do I wish did it? Of course.

I got good updates and upgrades for 3 years. It was worth the cost.

I'd rather hear about "minor" upgrades to the 360/PS3. While this motion controller may not be anything revolutionary when compared to the Wii, some people might find it fun and buy it as a totally optional upgrade.

The example of the 360's DVDs is valid but does solving that problem require a totally new console? There could be another optional upgrade to Blu-ray (I wonder why that isn't out yet) to increase disk capacity.

I'd rather have small ones too just because I'm not ready to buy a totally new console when good games with really good graphics are still coming out for my existing one.

I see a lot of comments about LCD being the way but what made me go Plasma was simply the quality of black. I had planned on getting LCD, but looking at the colors at the actual store, I had to go Plasma. At the time, the 40-42 inch price point was about the same for either.

Playing Guitar Hero (PS2) on it did give me a scare about burn-in. So far, the Wii has less problems than TV logos.

I still think Plasma is better image quality since movie watching is what I primarily do. I guess I'll find out in the long run if LCD TVs last longer.