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How about a Cloud OS? A VM OS that lives in the cloud and sends screens (instead of data) to your PC, tablet, phone, etc. It will have blazing fast network access, can add cores, RAM, disk space with a click. If you are a geek, you can probably do this, but there are so many details to work out and it violates the terms of service for many hosting places. Make it cheap and easy for the masses. The tech is there, but it isn't mainstream.

yeah everything is would be fast except actual interaction! brilliant!

https://www.google.com/search?q=cloud+desktop have fun.

I don't understand how you think it violates terms of hosting places though.. it doesn't. you might need a license on the os you run in there though of course. but you would just end up using android on your desktop if you went this route since if the same stuff and programs are streamed to all of your devices, you're going go by the shittiest device and not the best.

Carriers generally are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercarrier. The Nimitz class carriers are the largest US carrier to date http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/nimitz/. They displace somewhere around 70,000 long tons of water. They carry 82 aircraft, not to mention fuel, missiles, other ordinance. Even with all that they still have room for 6000 personnel. Take out the planes and ordinance you could probably cram 7000+ people in a Nimitz. The average number of employees a company has is roughly 16 http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/279843.html. If we assume that every company on this aircraft carrier employed 100 individuals then there would be room for 700 companies. So yes, he most likely worked for a dozen companies on that one carrier alone.

We all should show support for free speech and protest Anakata's imprisonment. Since the main reasons he is jailed are the **AA, and the "Mickey Mouse Forever" Act, I thought we could express our sentiment by pissing on Sonny Bono's grave:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.8197212,-116.4417191&spn=0.004205,0.005249

I would have also suggested the same for Jack Valenti, however he is buried in Arlington National Cemetery so that might result in jail.

This could be a great travel destination for those that value free speech.
     

That would be the 70's, and 50+ for those of us who saw the first movie.

I find your opinions to be no more insightful than the accuracy of your facts. Stories, even "kids stories" (fairy tales, anyone?) have morals and messages that usually transcend the simple surface reading. The ways that the characters are portrayed and act speak volumes about the society that birthed the story and the societies that have transmitted the story. For a simpler rendition of this idea, consider that etiquette guides are a good indication of what people ARE doing at a particular point in time (hence why someone writes an etiquette rule about not doing it. Modern etiquette guides don't warn people not to blow their noses on the tablecloth, but check this out http://books.google.com/books?id=J7ATQb6LZX0C&pg=PT121&lpg=PT121&dq=don't+blow+nose+on+tablecloth&source=bl&ots=6zXldEA7vN&sig=NfQbF7n-vS3ypHtZNAXdO7_r5nU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pPLCUZjhPKvD4AO_6YGICw&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg).

Okay, it is an external library so it doesn't quite count, but BridJ is probably about as easy to use as P/Invoke.

I tink we're fog'etten about the DonBots' interest wit MakerBot.

He may hava problem wit 'dem and have Clamps for ova and hava chat.

If you've been around long enough to see a few technologies die off, you'll recognize the hell out of this chart: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=git%2Csvn#cat=0-5&q=git%2C%20svn&cmpt=q As for me, svn is one of the few version control systems that actually managed to lose my work (VSS is the other), so I won't miss it. That said, I would pick Subversion over Perforce every day of the week...

Perhaps, you could even use GitExtensions ( http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/ ) which I find is a better GUI on Windows...

TortoiseGit?

Basically, abso-damn-lutely. However, the last PDP-11 model was introduced in 1990. I'm not sure when production ceased,but this hardware has to be pretty long in the tooth by now. How long do you reckon the hardware will keep running? How long will repair parts, even down to the IC level, be available? How long will peripherals be available? A PDP-11 still running in 2050 would be like a 1953 computer still running today.

Soldiers Field Road is in Boston, not a drive. And it doesn't look like it's that case any more.

Google had some trouble with identification of highway names along US-30 which Banfield Expressway was (still is?). For the longest time most of US-30 was also named Quebec Route 366.

http://www.google.com/search?q=argentine+economic+crisis+blog

Lots of fascinating reading there. Sleep tight :)

We don't want driverless-cars, we just want to tinker with our car. So we can occasionally take our hands off the wheel and surf. Thats about it.

Here's what I see.
1) Mandated logging in the car to get traces as you said (for good).
2) RFID license plates manditory for all cars (for good).
3) Then increase traffic by Amazon delivery drones.
4) Bullying of drones (because we can).
4) Then pay-per-mile tolls imposed by governments (since it will be easy, starting with cities).

Don't wish for this. Just advocate tinkering with your car. Advocate texting if its safe. Let insurance dictate safety, not the DOT.
And if you are really bored, get paid to drive around for wikispeedia. IMHO, Google isn't fixing anything, they are just having fun tinkering with their car as I want to.
Jim Pruett, Director
Wikispeedia.org (901) 213 7824

I like that. Maybe shares will then be a representation of the value instead of penny fragments. Their investment value is minuscule until you can purchase a certain amount anyway. Imagine, real investment instead of speculation. I think you are on to something.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bershire+hathaway+share+price&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#client=firefox-a&hs=ovL&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=berkshire+hathaway+share+price&spell=1&sa=X&ei=BZrAUeiwN6XWygHOwIGoAw&ved=0CCsQvwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47883778,d.aWc&fp=af3742879feae6e9&biw=1371&bih=837

Do I really have to Google Scholar it for you?
What The Fuck man, are you still living in the 90's?

Since the original is unavailable, you might want to google for unusual periodic table to see other interesting variations of the periodic table of the elements.

Supposedly they're planning to use Opus for the audio in their new version of WebM alongside vp9 video.

Unless they are deliberately giving away an endless stream of money, that is literally impossible.

This from the person that doesnt even know that there is a difference between bid prices and ask prices. It is only within this difference that the HFT's can make a profit, and they can only do so if they reduce that spread.

Until you have an argument that acknowledges that there are two prices, we can only presume that you dont have any clue at all what you are talking about. For the record, the amount of peer reviewed research on the subject is legion. Perhaps instead of declaring it impossible, you should educate yourself instead of just being a denier.

Yes, they do, but they don't play coy about it. This Markov chain cynicism, where commenters suggest every organisation might commit every evil they can dream up, gets really tiresome. For the most part you have to actually be a government representative before you're thuggish enough to use child porn as an excuse for other abuses.

Yes, they do, but they don't play coy about it. This Markov chain cynicism, where commenters suggest every organisation might commit every evil they can dream up, gets really tiresome. For the most part you have to actually be a government representative before you're thuggish enough to use child porn as an excuse for other abuses.

- The 40 hour work week was codified in law until George W. Bush signed it away in 2004.

- Unions lobbied for and won the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act

- There absolutely is such a thing as "wrongful termination", really. If you fire someone because of their skin color, religion, ethnicity, gender, or age then you have illegally discriminated against them, as such they were subject to "wrongful termination" and can sue you for damages.

Unionization is just as much an American right as the right to bear arms. Indeed most people that defend one will defend the other. Beware the man that defends the liberties of some but not those of others. If you don't like Unions then don't work with them or buy from them, after all that's what we're told when we complain about Walmart.

The problem is that taking C and just adding classes and objects would have been nice, but the changes in C++ go so far beyond that they can reach a perl-like level of syntax confusion.

You still have that option. Just take the basic OOP parts and don't use the crazy stuff at all. :)

That's a good idea when you're the one writing it. It's not always in your control when you're maintaining.

The problem is that taking C and just adding classes and objects would have been nice, but the changes in C++ go so far beyond that they can reach a perl-like level of syntax confusion.

You still have that option. Just take the basic OOP parts and don't use the crazy stuff at all. :)

Also, why does nobody remember the "always on" feature of the MS Teleprompt?

Because nobody knows wtf that is.

"A lot of us saw the dawn of the information age as the potential for a second Enlightenment, when a universally free flow of ideas and wisdom would lift mankind as a whole into an era of freedom and prosperity. Universal education and information was going to save humanity. Silly us. All we really did was give the despots more tools."

A lot of bad stuff is probably going to go down, true. But, we can remain hopeful good things will happen too. See Howard Zinn, for example:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1108-21.htm
"In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning.
To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world. There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people's thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible. What leaps out from the history of the past hundred years is its utter unpredictability. This confounds us, because we are talking about exactly the period when human beings became so ingenious technologically that they could plan and predict the exact time of someone landing on the moon, or walk down the street talking to someone halfway around the earth."

I watched that great video on "In the Year 2525" and am writing this on a US$250 Chromebook. Maybe it is not the best tool for covert browsing or communications like, say, "Freedombox" aspires to (for what that might be worth), but this cheap Chromebook is a great tool for learning. It would have been (almost) unbelievable in the 1950s. Ask yourself, as far as content learning goes, if you are a curious intellectually-inclined young person today, would you rather have had an expensive 1980s Princeton education with access to Firestone library (as I got), or just one year with a $250 Chromebook with acess to the 2013 internet for effortlessly following link after link and reading endless discussions on any topic you find interesting? If I was young again, I'd pick the Chromebook. An Ivy league education may have other benefits, as do face-to-face communities, but cheap access to endless information for those inclined to soak it up is now a reality -- and it is affordable for more and more people on the planet (including through discarded last generation smartphones). Another example, from India:
http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/

I followed your link. Now, please humor me and read "The Skills of Xanadu" by Theodore Sturgeon (a sci-fi short story from the 1950s) to see what the internet and cheap mobile computing may still make possible. That story may help rekindle your optimism for what broad global education may make possible. It is available online here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=wpuJQrxHZXAC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51

Even stuff like more people learning about the idea of a basic income may make a huge difference over the next ten years...
http://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/1gd0q7/krugman_endorses_universal_basic_income/

Yes, the USA may be relatively fading (including from thirty years of Neo-Liberalism and stuff like creeping surveillance and fearful self-destructive paranoia).
"Neoliberalism as a Water Balloon"

EFF Action: Demand Answers Now! [Direct e-mail form to contact POTUS and your senators+House rep]:
https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9260
https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9297 [Form for non-US citizens; directed at implicated corporations]

The links below are to resources of the personal-privacy type, as opposed to the those intended to help bring about change:

EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project [Guide to surveillance-avoidance tools and techniques for individuals]:
https://ssd.eff.org/

EFF's HTTPS Everywhere [Chrome/FF plug-in enforces HTTPS on compatible sites using rule-list (hundreds included)]:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

https-finder: Plug-in for HTTPS Everywhere users; auto-detects sites' HTTPS support and adds them to rule-list:
https://code.google.com/p/https-finder/

Privacy-oriented search engines:
https://duckduckgo.com/ [Only search engine on EFF's Organizational Member list]
https://ixquick.com/ [Provides HTTPS proxy through which search results may be accessed]

Privacy/security-oriented free web-mail providers:
https://www.safe-mail.net/
https://www.hushmail.com/

Today, German news agency dpa reports that fruits and vegetables currently sold in Germany are contaminated by perchlorates. This piece of news will add fuel to the fire for those who wonder where their food really comes from.

Fiberglass reinforced plastic hulls, the most ubiquitous type, commonly experience what are called blisters. Even the epoxies (the plastic part) are not totally impervious to salt water and over the years, it seeps in and can cause a chemical reaction -- this expands and leaves a blister. Examples: https://www.google.com/images?q=fiberglass+blisters

You have to grind them away, fill with new epoxy, fair your work, and then you can put on new bottom paint. Every aspect is toxic.

Other kinds of plastic degrade as well. For example, it only takes a couple years for 5 gal plastic pail to become brittle -- I had to replace a couple this year that had only seen three seasons holding shrimp and crabs because the rims shattered just with light handling.

It really doesn't matter what you put in or near sea water -- it will destroy it. Which makes this Roman Concrete pretty astounding.

I doubt they see it that way.

Of course they don't. That's part of the problem.

Democracy doesn't run very well on apathy... it's rather like pouring diesel into a gas tank... the results aren't pretty and the engine usually dies as a result.

Democracy doesn't run very well on apathy, but apathy is itself the product of a failed democracy. You're deluding yourself if you think apathy suffices to explain the sorry state in which we find ourselves. Perhaps some reading is in order?

Might I suggest that since we already have the highest incarceration rate of any country on the planet we start looking to solutions to social problems that don't involve sending people to our criminal education centers?

America's criminal justice system is certainly a mess. We do need to look for solutions to our social problems that don't involve sending people to prison, but let's not allow those who break the law in the name of the law go unpunished in the meantime.

Of course, a more civilized discourse would avoid using words like "traitor" to describe government officials carrying out their official duties, and perhaps might focus instead on the actual constitutional definition of what a traitor is... since you did invoke the Constitution afterall. Since you're obviously unfamiliar with the relevant passage...

I have no delusions about these people ever being tried and convicted of treason. I do, however, dispute the claim that conducting large-scale surveillance of American citizens is one of the official duties of our government officials, and that in doing so they have not betrayed their country and its people.

Snowden himself disagrees with your assessment.

Which is, of course, irrelevant.

Your subject was too kind, instead of "hmm, maybe" it should have been "what bullshit!"

As you said, Google is attempting innovation left and right, spending millions of dollars on projects that may or may not ever see the light of day. For example, add to your list the very next /. article on providing Internet access to remote/disaster areas with high altitude balloons.

Here's a starter, would take hours to read about all of the research projects they are either sponsoring or working on in house...

http://research.google.com/index.html

Or another list of rumored (well some we now know are true) Google X projects (and I would assume there are more not listed)....

http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/10-incredible-rumored-research-projects-going-on-at-google-x/

Oh, and you thought you were joking about teleportation...

http://bgr.com/2013/05/29/google-teleportation-research-project/

Question is - why is it necessary for concrete to be reinforced? Obviously, the Romans didn't have steel or iron rebar. They formed and poured their structures without any rebar, and they've lasted a couple thousand years. It seems more than obvious that our architects and engineers can learn a few things from the Romans.

IANASE (structural engineer), but from my understanding one key difference that reinforced concrete confers is that it allows the concrete to be prestressed to perform better under tension. Concrete (Roman or modern) is just fine under compression, so it can support a prodigious amount of weight loading down on it. However, once you try to span an area then the concrete in the middle of the span is normally under tension. As you can imagine, this often leads to cracking and outright failure. Furthermore, it's why the Romans had such a predilection to using arches and domes, which keep the concrete predominantly under compression rather than tension.

Think about it this way: our highway bridges couldn't be built the way they are if we were using unreinforced Roman concrete; however, if the concrete is prestressed then the tensile forces are balanced by the compressive forces. This also allows us to do many other interesting things with architecture that weren't feasible before.

I have wondered about whether something like carbon fiber could be used in the future to produce prestressed concrete that wasn't as prone to corrosion as the steel rebar-based approach. Something like that might be the best of both worlds. Okay, so I just Googled and it looks like at least one carbon-fiber approach is already patented.

Just as an aside, the Romans were quite ingenious when it came to implementing their architectural application of concrete. I read that when Hadrian ordered the construction of the current version of the Pantheon, the Roman engineers were faced with difficulty designing a dome that would not collapse under its own weight (again, tensile forces and concrete are not friends). The Romans overcame this by reducing the density of the concrete in the dome by using pumice in the aggregate and reducing the thickness of the concrete as the dome progressed. The dome of the Pantheon remains the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world—not because we can't replicate the techniques, but because reinforced concrete performs so much better under tension.

(Yes, I know that SELinux is from the NSA, but the risk of putting in back-doors is just to big.)

Risk of all those eyeballs catching it just because it is open source? Just like they didn't catch serious vulnerabilities for years in one of the most used and critical open sourced programs SendMail?

Leaving aside the fact that SendMail is a horrible warty conglomeration of modules for mostly-extinct mail-routine systems supporting rules written in a cryptic macro language. SendMail is a mail application, and while secure mail is very important, security is the very purpose of SELinux.

Where security is one more thing to consider for apps like SendMail, it's the core function of SELinux, and core functions are the most-scrutinized of all, because when they don't work, the app itself is useless.

Aside from that, the mere fact that a large part of SELinux was created under NSA auspices is enough to get the tinfoil crowd digging into it looking for loopholes and backdoors. "Distrust the NSA" may be in the spotlight right now, but not everyone was complacent before.

Thankfully, if you Google for me, you come up with nothing.

Oh? About 3,410,000 results (0.19 seconds)

When all your in-house innovation leads to outhouse fabrication

How much innovation is needed to fabricate a tiny room?

Buy everyone who innovates and shut out any possible competition

In this case, I believe you mean shit out any possible competition.

I guess this isn't happening then? http://www.google.com/loon/
Maybe whoever wrote this article isn't impressed by interesting things that these companies create. Do they believe that because they are big and their innovations should also be "big"? This article is stupid.

(Yes, I know that SELinux is from the NSA, but the risk of putting in back-doors is just to big.)

Risk of all those eyeballs catching it just because it is open source? Just like they didn't catch serious vulnerabilities for years in one of the most used and critical open sourced programs SendMail?

1560 hits to, presumably, mostly illegal torrent files, as found by Google and directly linked to the .torrent file:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8#safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=rick%20astley%20filetype%3Atorrent

Big nasty illegal downloading site: 61 hits, presumably a small subset of what Google finds.
http://kickass.to/usearch/rick%20astley/

Neither site hosts the actual .torrent files.

Please explain why one should be considered illegal and the other not?

https://www.google.com/search?um=1&safe=off&client=opera&channel=suggest&hl=en&biw=1600&bih=1141&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=trolejbus

It's true that a stressful environment can indeed contribute to the risk of depression, and also that for most people, modern life is indeed stressful in a lot of new ways. To support your point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
""Nothing that we tried," Alexander wrote, "... produced anything that looked like addiction in rats that were housed in a reasonably normal environment.""

I'd agree there are many factors involved in depression, including all the factors that may stand in the way of eating better (including lack of money for healthier food, misinformation, initial lack of motivation, peers, time, negative self-talk, misinformed professionals, chemical dependencies, bad relationships, difficult working or living conditions, no access to nature, social status, etc.). So, yes, even when you know you should eat better, there can still be a lot of hurdles in the way. A related film including a truck driver trying to get out of a downward spiral:
http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/

You could think of nutrition as like your car's tires, which are the interface between the car and the reality of the road. If your tires are bald, you are most likely going to have an accident on slippery roads, no matter how good the rest of the car is. But if your tires are bald, maybe you spend so much time paying for car repairs that you don't have money or time to go to the tire shop for new ones? And it is hard to think about investing in new tires when all the mechanics at car repair places that you go to (which don't sell tires for some reason) are telling you (based on years of their own training) that the reason you are having so many accidents is because you need an oil change, or a new transmission, or need to install all wheel drive, or remove the roof to make the car into a convertible. Still, it is true you'd probably have less accidents even with bald tires if, say, the roads were not so windy or made of slippery glass due to bad public policy... So, yes, depression is multi-factored in that sort of way (and more, since, following the analogy, how grippy your bald tires are might still be some function of exactly how you turn the steering wheel perhaps to make the most of some remaining patches of tread near the edges perhaps).

Still, please do your own research on diet and mood and you may be surprised. A starting point: https://www.google.com/search?q=diet+and+mood

From the first result:
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/food-to-balance-your-mood
"In a study of 200 people done in England for the mental health group known as Mind, participants were told to cut down on mood "stressors" they ate, while increasing the amount of mood "supporters." Stressors included sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and chocolate (more of that coming up). Supporters were water, vegetables, fruit, and oil-rich fish. Eighty-eight percent of the people who tried this reported improved mental health. Specifically, 26% said they had fewer mood swings, 26% had fewer panic attacks and anxiety, and 24% said they experienced less depression."

I know, one can quibble about whether they had a control group, whether that was "double blind" experiment, and so on.

Or another:
http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/01/28/healthy-diet-can-improve-mood/50908.html
"The results showed a strong day-to-day relationship between more positive mood and higher fruit and vegetable consumption, but not other foods."

Consider, if someone cruel were to take a rat and feed it nothing but sugar water, the poor abused rat is going to sicken and die, and probably be pretty cranky throughout the process of dying. Rats need a variety of nutrients. Why expect anything different

The Bolshevik regime was responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of 20 million people between 1918 and 1956, and for the imprisonment in camps of millions more.

This number is exxagerated by an order of magnitude. There was slightly more than 700 thousands executed and Here is a known academic paper that presents more or less accurate figures about the number if executions and the number of prisoners of Gulag , for instance.

You see, cold fjord, your sources are completely skewed.

The Bolshevik regime was responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of 20 million people between 1918 and 1956, and for the imprisonment in camps of millions more.

This number is exxagerated by an order of magnitude. There was slightly more than 700 thousands executed and Here is a known academic paper that presents more or less accurate figures about the number if executions and the number of prisoners of Gulag , for instance.

You see, cold fjord, your sources are completely skewed.

When I was a boy we sometimes went to Luleå in the summer, because the weather there is warmer and more stable, than were I come from (Narvik, Norway).

It was a long drive.

Marxism is not the only form of communism, and Marx was an authoritarian. It's well explained here.

In the 19th century there was a big rivalry between the Marxist communists and the anarchist communists, as exemplified by Bakunin. He and other anarchists hated Marx's "dictatorship of the proletariat", which Marx never precisely defined, but in which the word "dictatorship" was accurately used. As Bakunin said:

They [the Marxists] maintain that only a dictatorship—their dictatorship, of course—can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.

I'm no political extremist, but I've always thought that if I were to become one I'd be an anarchist. Essentially they believe that all government authority is corrupt.

If you're going to use that kind of logic - all political idealogies amount to dictatorships in practice, with the possible exception of complete anarchism - though even that would still end up as a dictatorship once the strong rose to the top.

Even democracy will amount to a certain percentage of the popluation getting their way over another percentage of the population. Geting a chance to vote every few years make no difference if there's only 2 people to vote for and they both say the same shit while wearing a different coloured tie.

The only choice we still pretend to exercise is what flavour of dictatorship we're going for this 4 years - and how much tyranny we will accept that flavour demonstrating.

- The file format is not even remotely easily accessible with shell scripts. (No, exporting doesn't suffice. The XML doesn't even contain everything!)
- It doesn’t offer a DBus interface.
- It forces constant mouse-keyboard switching and even completely lacks keyboard support for important things.

Then what the hell is the damn point of even using it??

Each single one of those alone is a show-stopping deal breaker. Only a Wintard or iTard could ever consider this "normal" or acceptable.
Everyone who actually uses his computer, instead of playing with fixed-function appliances that happen to be implemented on a computer, would never put up with that shit. Not even when paid equitable remedy.

Not everyone gets to use their choice of browser.

Architecturally, Chrome frame is pretty similar to just installing Chrome(it has to be, to support rendering pages as they would appear in Chrome). Mysteriously, though, the fact that it's shoved into IE soothes some reactionary IT departments.

Whether or not they are right about this, Google appears to be betting that people who were willing to install Chrome Frame to support something will just install Chrome. Their 'Legacy Browser Support' makes managing the distribution of troublesome pages between the two browsers relatively easy to manage.

"A. Are you saying just because a technology can be used for harm it should be abandoned or suppressed?"

Actually, no I didn't say anything remotely resembling that. I think I pointed out if you are going to tote up the upside you should probably at least keep it in your mind there is a down side to most technologies. Their cost can be extremely steep, especially when you whistle past the grave yard and ignore them.

Fossil fuels for example have been a boon to the energy input equation driving civilization, as long as they don't start a run away greenhouse effect and wipe out life as we know it.

You seem to be a poster child for "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Well, if the point you are trying to make is so superficial, thanks for pointing out the obvious. Every technology is a double edged sword. It doesn't take a genious to realize any tool can be used for good or ill. The story itself simply points out that measurable economic gains have been realized in developing genomic technology. But it would be moronic to take that to mean we are headed for a modern day gold rush where every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a pan can go out and make a mess of things by doing rogue biotech. Throughout human history, Plenty of technological advances have shaped and shifted society in countless ways. You can't deal with it by cowering in fear at the unknown. As a whole, we've adapted and matured. Sure, we will probably make a few mistakes along the way, but we generally learn from those we make and avoid a lot more that the smarter ones among us have already foreseen.

"Just because the technology makes it more feasible doesn't mean we are reckless enough to flirt with it again"

Keep telling yourself that, and hope you have good genes.

My genes happen to be excellent, thank you very much. I've benefited enormously from choosing my ancestors wisely. However, I place far greater value in the wisdom of civilization and culture. I don't agree with everything he's published, but I think you can gain a bit of perspective by reading a bit of Steven Pinker. I am inclined to believe eugenics of the kind you are afraid of (ie. wholesale crimes against humanity) are obsolete human endeavors that will go the way of such things as institutionalized slavery, human sacrifices, and other social institutions that we as a society have outgrown. I suppose an argument can be made for some types of control over reproduction that can constitute some form of eugenics. For example, it is now possible for couples to receive genetic counseling and manage the risk(s) of possible congenital defects in their children. Ethical or not? That *is* a intelligent discussion worth having.

"this stuff is not so easy to do accidentally"

Yea, its so tough there are DIY home geneticists "using the Synthetic Biology Parts Registry to engineer yogurt bacteria to produce prozac"

As someone who has actually participated in iGEM, I'm afraid you have a grossly skewed understanding of how synthetic biology is done. The link you've provided demonstrates in principle how to do genetic engineering. Its akin to how anyone with enough undergraduate physics can in principle construct a fission bomb. Again, that only happens in the movie reality of Hollywood. But seriously, all participating iGEM teams doing this kind of synthetic biology are heavily supported by sponsorship from industry players and academic entities with money, lab facility, and other vital resources such as the wealth of experience provided by project mentors (usually university professors or Ph.Ds in the field). These are not home gene

Communism in it's purist form as visioned by Karl Marx has never been implemented; he never really explained it either.

Marxism is not the only form of communism, and Marx was an authoritarian. It's well explained here.

In the 19th century there was a big rivalry between the Marxist communists and the anarchist communists, as exemplified by Bakunin. He and other anarchists hated Marx's "dictatorship of the proletariat", which Marx never precisely defined, but in which the word "dictatorship" was accurately used. As Bakunin said:

They [the Marxists] maintain that only a dictatorship—their dictatorship, of course—can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.

I'm no political extremist, but I've always thought that if I were to become one I'd be an anarchist. Essentially they believe that all government authority is corrupt.

Fuck you.

My fights against right wingers are harder than this Internet crap because the right wingers are in my own family. You think I haven't pointed out where it's wrong to apply ethics to others to right wingers? You need to do your own research on me before making accusations at me.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.servalproject

It's SUPPOSED to be carried over https.

Unfrotunately people rarely go to websites by typing in a https url. They go to websites by typing something in a search box or by typing in a url without protocol (which for historical reasons defaults to http). This gives an attacker an opertunity to hijack things before the user switches to https and keep the client on plain http as the connection from attacker to server switches to https.

Exactly, and it is trivially easy to accomplish these attacks with man in the middle tools like SSLstrip and the Middler