Re: Java*.*
"Not true. Not everyone has broadband. Plenty are stuck on dialup, satellite, or low-end wireless."
Well I wish someone would tell the world's website developers that.
"Plus what's stopping X servers from being attacked"
It's easier to secure a protocol (which is all that X has) than to guard against malicious code run by a browser that will happily run arbitrary code (javascript). Besides, I was advocating a modernised take on X with at least some security built in (unlike the original X).
"not to mention servers full of juicy information"
They do anyway regardless. But an X server isn't in the same category as a server that stores information (such as a website), and is anyway running at the client end, not the server end.
"Frankly, I'd say the horse of privacy has bolted and will never return. Even if consumers abandon the Internet en masse, high speed private and government network will continue."
This isn't about privacy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
