[T]he latest publication of HTML5 is now blocked by Adobe, via an objection that has still not been made public (despite yesterday’s promise to make it so).

via: Hixie’s Natural Log: Consistency.

Adobe also claimed 7 million attempts to download Flash from iphones. According to Marc Edwards, that’s way less than the hits he got on Bjango’s web site since the iPhone was released.  Adobe should be putting their efforts into making Flash good software rather than trying fight alternatives.  Apple wouldn’t have been choosing alternatives if Flash wasn’t rubbish on Mac OS X.  Not surprisingly though, Adobe are working on Flash for Windows Mobile 7. Not sure what good that’ll be with Windows Mobile use dropping like a stone.

Edit: According to John Nack at Adobe, the claim that they are blocking HTML 5 is bullshit. This doesn’t negate that Adobe spin a load of crap themselves though.  The most ironic thing is that John Nack says he is working to ensure that HTML 5 isn’t hijacked by vendor interests, yet Adobe wants to be dominant with Flash and can’t handle the truth when someone like Steve Jobs calls them lazy.  They made their own bed and now they must sleep in it.

“Ok If I have to I will comment,I love facebook so right now just want to log in if thats ok with you..lol Keep up the good work…”

“ok cool now can I get to facebook”

“The new facebook sucks> NOW LET ME IN.”

etc ad infinitum.

Is anyone else as worried as I am about people’s level of intelligent and computer knowledge these days?

Via: Office Snapshots » Apple HQ – Cupertino Campus.

That’s about 8 MB/sec down and 1.2 MB/sec up or so.

In the comments section on Lynch’s post, he makes the following statement: “I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today.” That’s an interesting statement. Let’s consider the particulars of it.

Lynch claims Flash is installed on 98% of computers on the internet. If we’re being extremely generous, we could say that OS X makes up 10% of those computers, and we could say Linuxruns on an additional 1%. So, out of all the computers hooked up to the internet that run Flash, 89% of them are running some flavor of Windows. If Flash runs just fine on Windows but has middling to terrible performance on other platforms (which is usually the case), it’s all too easy to dismiss these problems as not being “widespread” — even if millions of OS X and Linux users are experiencing poor performance from Flash, many millions more Windows users aren’t.

Lynch himself admits that “given identical hardware, Flash Player on Windows has historically been faster than the Mac, and it is for the most part the same code running in Flash for each operating system.” You know what? That’s exactly the problem right there. That’s where the accusations of laziness are coming from. If Flash is optimized for Windows but doesn’t run well on Unix-based platforms using the same hardware, it’s Adobe’s job to modify its code to improve performance. It’s not Apple’s job, it’s not Linus Torvalds’s job, it’s Adobe’s job. Even Microsoft knows better than to expect Office for Windows to run in Mac OS X with the same code; that’s why Office for Mac exists.

Gruber gives us the lowdown about what Adobe is referring to with the 98 or 99% in his post, “Who can do something about those blue boxes?”

Flash is no longer ubiquitous. There’s a big difference between “everywhere” and “almost everywhere”. Adobe’s own statistics on Flash’s market penetration claim 99 percent penetration as of last month. That’s because, according to their survey methodology, they’re only counting “PCs” — which ignores the entire sort of devices which have brought about this debate. Adobe is arguing that Flash is installed on 99 percent of all web browsers that support Flash, not 99 percent of all web browsers.

Both are worth reading.  Adobe really do deserve a big kick in the arse for their years of abuse of Mac owners with their progressively more bloated and buggy software.  I really do wish Apple had bought Macromedia, not Adobe.  Now we’ve just ended up with all the crap under one roof instead.  Imagine if Apple had done with Flash and Fireworks what they did with Final Cut Pro. Then we wouldn’t be in this mess and I wouldn’t have to block Flash in Firefox and Safari just to guarantee a useable web experience instead of Flash wasting large amounts of memory and CPU all the time.

The law recognises no positive obligation on any person to protect the copyright of another.

I think the government neither has to decide what we can and can’t access on the internet and needs to recognise and encourage people to take responsibility for themselves.

Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Limited includes summary No. 3 [2010] FCA 24 4 February 2010.

iPad About « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry.

Don’t impose double standards on “Internet freedom” – People’s Daily Online.

“Bile comes from your gall bladder and helps your body digest food,” said Anish Sheth, M.D., assistant professor at Yale Medical School and author of the book What’s Your Poo Telling You? “It’s metabolized by the bacteria in your large intestine, leaving behind a byproduct called stercobilin—and it’s that stercobilin that gives stool a brown pigment.”

Without stercobilin, your poo would actually be a sort of pale, off-grey color, like white clay. This really does happen from time to time, Dr. Sheth said, when something is blocking a patient’s bile duct, so that bile can’t get from the gall bladder into the intestinal tract. The cause could be as simple as a gall stone, or as ominous as pancreatic cancer.

Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? Boing Boing.