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I can only imagine the kind of domain name land-grab this will invoke. Squatters will be prepping their naughty keywords database in preparation, I suspect.

Flash Cookies are also quite often used for "stuffing" by unscrupulous affiliates for all of the reasons mentioned in the article.

Jobs' eyes look seriously bugged out in that picture.

I started out programming using Sinclair BASIC on my ZX Spectrum +2A purely because I wondered what the menu was for, other than loading games off a tape. It wasn't really "programming" though, so much as typing in the Breakout clone listed in the manual. Once in school we learned programming using MacBASIC on a Macintosh 128K, doing basic trigonometry formulas and answer/response programs.

Now that I've experienced everything from PL/SQL to PHP, I would agree to a certain extent that beginning your programming experience with the language supplied with your machine has its advantages, but I would question the long term benefits - there's no harm in learning how to set up a new programming environment in order to be taught the rudiments behind how a computer works, and arguably having that base level knowledge is more advantageous.

The same guy had a startup fail spectacularly afterwards, with investor money ('low six figures') down the drain. It was a cheezeburger-style funny video/picture aggregator called PopJam.