There is absolutely ZERO evidence that there is significant or even measurable levels of vote fraud committed by voters. Of course there is lots of evidence that elections have been stolen by fraud on the election counting side of things.
Back when google was relatively new, and the internet was relatively small still, (we're talking late 90s) it occurred to be to search on my name. I was very surprised to find archived USENET posts from the late 80s and early 90s! Knowing that, I refined my searches and was shocked at the reckless things I had posted. It had not occurred to me that all of that was being archived.
Even then it was only possible because I have an unusual name, and I had an unusually early presence on the internet.
Now almost 10 years later, even I, with my better than average search skills and first hand knowledge of things like past email addresses and what groups I had posted in, CANNOT find most of that embarrassing stuff. It's just too buried. Though I imagine that someday soon some totally unheard of search engine with some radical new approach will make it easy to uncover all of that ancient sillyness. I guess I learned my "myspace" lesson early.
Gee you're riding your bike, so the field of focus is changing constantly. Glare from windows and cars is probably playing havoc with the light level. You want your camera to be point-and-shoot, and have good focus and good exposure. That's asking a lot of a pocket sized camera.
The main thing that takes time during the delay between pushing the button and the actual exposure is the camera auto-focusing and auto exposing. SLRs are quick because YOU make the focus and exposure decision, all it has to do is open the shutter.
The hard thing about NoScript is when a page totally fails to load anything useful and you have to decide to allow one or more of three scripts each from different domain. Often it is easy, you're on yahoo so you allow yahoo. Sometimes it is far from obvious. To get some yahoo pages to work you have to allow yming.com to run scripts, and you have to pick that one from a list including several cryptically named advertiser sites. I don't mind this extra step, and with the current web model I don't see another way around it, but I hardly expect Joe Casual Surfer to even know what a script is.
Before you gut it (you want to be sure there are no reservoirs of mold growth) have a qualified asbestos consultant test the house for asbestos. No point in having a cool high-tech house that makes you sick.
I'd also consider solar power, and geothermal. Geothermal would probably work exceedingly well in New Orleans. You could pump a LOT of heat out of your home and into the ground (54 deg F). It won't be too long before energy is a lot more expensive than it is now.
I'd also make sure that the server closet is sound insulated (at least double layers of sheetrock all around.) I'd put an AC supply in the wall high in the server closet and a return near the floor to keep all of that gear cool.
I'd give some serious thought to laying out the house so that utilities are on the ground level and living and storage space is up high.
I'm a mechanical engineer so those are the sorts of things I think about.
Here's a thought. The future is always unpredictable so build with the possibility of upgrades in mind. I'd say instead of installing fiber now go with cat5 or whatever and spend the extra $$ on installing nice cable runs to every room. Put pvc pipe in the walls so you can run whatever wire you want in the future.
While reading that our brains aren't wired to think in parallel, I am sipping my tea, "playing" a song that's stuck in my head (The Wind Cries Mary), listening for the boss' footsteps so I don't get caught surfing, breathing, pumping blood, and digesting my breakfast. Don't tell me that our brains don't work in parallel.
Even on/. everyone is talking about stupid celebreties... here are the stories:
#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
widely discussed here ignored or misunderstood elsewhere
#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
#3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger there goes a major cornerstone of the global food supply!
#4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
#5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo minerals needed for electronics --> over 6 million dead
#6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
# 7 US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq Make you proud to be an American?
#8 Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
#9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
#10 Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians Collective punishment is a war crime
#11 Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed mmmm franken-tortillas!!
#12 Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines we're the only contry that didn't sign onto the global ban
#13 New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup Hey that "safe" herbicide isn't so safe
#14 Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US Concentration camps for liberals? or just for immigrants?
#15 Chemical Industry is EPA's Primary Research Partner Fox guarding the hen house
#16 Ecuador and Mexico Defy US on International Criminal Court I guess George, Dick, Condi, Rummy, and crew won't be hanging out in Acapulco after they retire
#17 Iraq Invasion Promotes OPEC Agenda Was that part of the plan?
#18 Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story discussed recently here but not much elsewhere
#19 Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever Our primary source of oxygen gets burned up into a major source of CO2
#20 Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem
#21 Gold Mining Threatens Ancient Andean Glaciers
#22 $Billions in Homeland Security Spending Undisclosed Who's pocket are we lining?
#23 US Oil Targets Kyoto in Europe
#24 Cheney's Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year Can you say "war profiteer?" Good! I knew you could1
#25 US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region
Democracy only works when people are well informed about the decisions they have to make. Clearly ours isn't working.
I fear you may have confused correlation with causation. I agree with you that usury laws should be restored. I recently made the error of missing a payment on a credit card only to find that not only did my rate on that card go ballistic (from around 8% to over 25%!) but it did on my other card as well. I do not however believe that the lack of usury laws are exclusively to blame for declining standard of living. That would be a massive oversimplification that fails to account for declining domestic natural resources, the freeing of global capital with the continued restraint on global labor, banking deregulation, and a host of other influences.
When our nation was young, corporations were on a much shorter leash. A corporation was given a charter for a specific enterprise. That charter could expire, or be revoked. When the charter term was over the owners would have to justify re-issuing the charter. I'm not suggesting we go back that far, but...
If we got a lot more strict about corporate charters we could solve all sorts of societal ills. If UnaCal is participating in the enslavement of Burmese to build it's pipeline, revoke the charter and sell of the assets. If Maxxam buys out Pacific Lumber and starts liquidating the inventory (California's forests) to pay the acquisition debt, revoke the charter and sell the assets to someone with morals. If some rich dude from Microsoft wants to hoard patents and then sue actual productive companies, then deny him a corporate charter in the first place, or revoke it when he makes an ass of himself.
As for falling straight down - for buildings of the size of the WTC, that's about the only way they can come down. They're so huge you can't get enough angular momentum for them to fall sideways, even if you take out the supports on one side only. They'll break and fall (straight) down first.
This is simply not true. The degree to which they fall sideways may be minimized by the fact that they are not solid structures, but physics is physics and it applies to big things and small things. If you remove the support under one side of a big thing then it will tip over. Interesting that you mention momentum though. The fact that WTC7 collapsed to the ground at very near free fall acceleration defies the law of conservation of momentum. One would expect that from a limited failure of select structural members weakened by fire that the building would not collapse at free fall acceleration because all of the intact structure of the building would slow the collapse. In fact WTC7 collapsed completely in about 6.6 seconds. You can measure the collapse time yourself because video is widely available on the web.
The most important thing here is that various hypotheses could be TESTED by experiment or computer simulation. I am not alone in my suggestion that further investigation is needed. The FEMA report itself admits that it's hypothesis is unlikely and suggests further investigation.
This comes from section 5.7 Observations and Findings, in the report issued by FEMA and titled "World Trade Center Building Performance Study"
"The loss of the east penthouse on the videotape suggests that the collapse event was initiated by the loss of structural integrity in one of the transfer systems. Loss of structural integrity was likely a result of weakening caused by fires on the 5th to 7th floors. The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time. Although the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to resolve this issue." I added emphasis.
My cell phone has a button right in the middle of the the various menu buttons. If I push it it starts connecting my to the "Tzones" and charges me $0.35. I call it the 35 cent button. I can't disable it. I can't reprogram that button. I only screw up once every other month but if every Tmobile customer screws up 1time/60days and gets a $0.35 charge that will sure add up for Tmobile. Personally I think that it is wire fraud.
You ought to be able to program time limits for various services into a phone. When you're 13 you get 5 sms per day. You get more each year if your grades are good and you are responsible. If you're like me set it to 0 and you cannot accidentally use the stupid service.
On a different but related topic, it continues to dumbfound me that cell phones are allowed in the k-12 classroom at all!!! How can any teacher compete with that kind of constant distraction?
I know all you tin foil hat folks have a hard time with fire melting steel but look at what happened in California a few weeks ago when a tanker truck loaded with fuel crashed and caught fire causing the collapse of the overpass. Sorry to break the news to you but heat does soften steel long before it actually liquefies. If you do not like this country so much, or do not trust it then move to IRAN or somewhere that you will be more comfortable...... until you can show me proof that it was an "inside" job just shut the fuck up...
swearing doesn't make your weird anger any more convincing...
There are significant differences between the freeway collapse and the WTC collapse. The fire in California was fueled by gasoline. The fires in WTC7 were fueled by diesel. Gas burns MUCH faster than diesel releasing energy at a higher rate. The fire in California was in the open air and was able to burn without restriction. The fire in WTC7 was burning in an enclosed space with limited oxygen. In California only one steel support needed to completely fail for collapse to begin and the debris fell asymmetrically with one corner still attached, as would be expected. WTC7 collapsed entirely within it's own footprint and at nearly free fall acceleration, to do so would have required simultaneous failure of most of the steel columns and on multiple floors.
The biggest difference is that the freeway collapsed exactly as physics would expect it to under the known circumstances. WTC collapsed in an exceedingly unlikely fashion for the known circumstances.
Does that mean that George W. Bush, in concert with Elvis and Israeli Space Aliens, destroyed the WTC towers? Of course not. It does mean that the official explanation is at odds with the basic physics. Which means that the story isn't true, and further investigation is warranted. Nothing more nothing less.
BR
oh... if you want to live in a place that doesn't tolerate open discussion, then there are lots of places available, such as Iran. Please don't try to make my good old USA a place where dissenting views are bullied out of the discussion.
Professor Jones of BYU got a sample of the slag from the discovered molten material. He has analyzed it and found that the component metals match the components of Thermate (not thermite).
Okay so they get it, but is there anything worth watching on CBS? I honestly don't know since I got rid of my TV 2 years ago, and rarely watched the networks before then.
The Continuing Adventures of Jar Jar Binks
or
The Star Wars Holiday Special, Special Edition
or
The Holiday Special Strikes Back
or
The Young Han Solo Adventures
or
Howard the Jedi Duck
or
Correllian Graffiti
or
Jar Jar Binks and the Temple of Dumb
Who here agrees that Lucas is just beating a dead bantha?
They should make it retroactive and then apply it to the Department of Homeland Security. We know that politics has been the motive of raising the alert level.
This would criminalize this deplorable government behavior. It would also make it illegal for the government to make up BS about WMDs in some poor country who's oil we want.
What's to say that this isn't water? Are teaching students supposed to swear off all liquids? Even assuming it is 120 proof grain alcohol, does that school have a rule against adult students drinking?
I keep thinking that Rod Serling is going to step out from behind a door and say, "A quiet campus in a quiet town becomes the stage for tragedy when teetotalers go on a witch hunt, in the Twilight Zone."
I am no more qualified to offer constructive input on say... the vexing issue of BSODs than a typical Microserf programmer is qualified to suggest design improvements to the combustion chamber in the engine of the next generation Honda. Sorry I'm not gonna sit here and take ANY blame for Win95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP, or Vista.
You know cigarette smokers somehow think that flicking their butts isn't littering. It pisses me off to no end. HEY SMOKERS, YEH YOU! Put them out and then throw those butts in the trash, pathetic litterbugs. It's bad enough we have to smell your stink, we shouldn't have to look at your trash strewn all over the place.
Hopefully not too many smokers have mod points today...
The internet is most of the computers of the world connected together. The internet is NOT the web. It is NOT email. Just like your computer is not MS Word. The web and email are things you can do with the internet just like word processing is something you can do with your computer.
I actually don't think that TCP/IP matters much in the definition of the internet anymore. Someday it is likely that we will adopt a new and hopefully improved protocol, and people will still call 'it' the internet.
I would love to have/. tell us what we as a group use. I have a website and I can look up what percentage of my hits were from each OS and each browser. I think it would be very interesting, it might make a good discussion. Especially on a slow news day (like today).
Actually I'd like to see more discussions about/. itself. I think that the moderation, meta-moderation, and karma systems are fascinating. A bi-annual state of the/. post with feedback about the various systems in place would be a huge value. I expect there will be much more of this sort reputation system in the future in both online and offline communities and there would be much to learn from/.
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There is absolutely ZERO evidence that there is significant or even measurable levels of vote fraud committed by voters. Of course there is lots of evidence that elections have been stolen by fraud on the election counting side of things.
Back when google was relatively new, and the internet was relatively small still, (we're talking late 90s) it occurred to be to search on my name. I was very surprised to find archived USENET posts from the late 80s and early 90s! Knowing that, I refined my searches and was shocked at the reckless things I had posted. It had not occurred to me that all of that was being archived.
Even then it was only possible because I have an unusual name, and I had an unusually early presence on the internet.
Now almost 10 years later, even I, with my better than average search skills and first hand knowledge of things like past email addresses and what groups I had posted in, CANNOT find most of that embarrassing stuff. It's just too buried. Though I imagine that someday soon some totally unheard of search engine with some radical new approach will make it easy to uncover all of that ancient sillyness. I guess I learned my "myspace" lesson early.
I don't get it. The police were involved in arresting someone who was breaking the law. The shock. The horror. What is this world coming to!?!?
Gee you're riding your bike, so the field of focus is changing constantly. Glare from windows and cars is probably playing havoc with the light level. You want your camera to be point-and-shoot, and have good focus and good exposure. That's asking a lot of a pocket sized camera.
The main thing that takes time during the delay between pushing the button and the actual exposure is the camera auto-focusing and auto exposing. SLRs are quick because YOU make the focus and exposure decision, all it has to do is open the shutter.
The hard thing about NoScript is when a page totally fails to load anything useful and you have to decide to allow one or more of three scripts each from different domain. Often it is easy, you're on yahoo so you allow yahoo. Sometimes it is far from obvious. To get some yahoo pages to work you have to allow yming.com to run scripts, and you have to pick that one from a list including several cryptically named advertiser sites. I don't mind this extra step, and with the current web model I don't see another way around it, but I hardly expect Joe Casual Surfer to even know what a script is.
Before you gut it (you want to be sure there are no reservoirs of mold growth) have a qualified asbestos consultant test the house for asbestos. No point in having a cool high-tech house that makes you sick.
I'd also consider solar power, and geothermal. Geothermal would probably work exceedingly well in New Orleans. You could pump a LOT of heat out of your home and into the ground (54 deg F). It won't be too long before energy is a lot more expensive than it is now.
I'd also make sure that the server closet is sound insulated (at least double layers of sheetrock all around.) I'd put an AC supply in the wall high in the server closet and a return near the floor to keep all of that gear cool.
I'd give some serious thought to laying out the house so that utilities are on the ground level and living and storage space is up high.
I'm a mechanical engineer so those are the sorts of things I think about.
Here's a thought. The future is always unpredictable so build with the possibility of upgrades in mind. I'd say instead of installing fiber now go with cat5 or whatever and spend the extra $$ on installing nice cable runs to every room. Put pvc pipe in the walls so you can run whatever wire you want in the future.
While reading that our brains aren't wired to think in parallel, I am sipping my tea, "playing" a song that's stuck in my head (The Wind Cries Mary), listening for the boss' footsteps so I don't get caught surfing, breathing, pumping blood, and digesting my breakfast. Don't tell me that our brains don't work in parallel.
Even on /. everyone is talking about stupid celebreties... here are the stories:
#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
widely discussed here ignored or misunderstood elsewhere
#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
#3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
there goes a major cornerstone of the global food supply!
#4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
#5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo
minerals needed for electronics --> over 6 million dead
#6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
# 7 US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq
Make you proud to be an American?
#8 Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
#9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
#10 Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians
Collective punishment is a war crime
#11 Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed
mmmm franken-tortillas!!
#12 Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines
we're the only contry that didn't sign onto the global ban
#13 New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup
Hey that "safe" herbicide isn't so safe
#14 Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US
Concentration camps for liberals? or just for immigrants?
#15 Chemical Industry is EPA's Primary Research Partner
Fox guarding the hen house
#16 Ecuador and Mexico Defy US on International Criminal Court
I guess George, Dick, Condi, Rummy, and crew won't be hanging out in Acapulco after they retire
#17 Iraq Invasion Promotes OPEC Agenda
Was that part of the plan?
#18 Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story
discussed recently here but not much elsewhere
#19 Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever
Our primary source of oxygen gets burned up into a major source of CO2
#20 Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem
#21 Gold Mining Threatens Ancient Andean Glaciers
#22 $Billions in Homeland Security Spending Undisclosed
Who's pocket are we lining?
#23 US Oil Targets Kyoto in Europe
#24 Cheney's Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year
Can you say "war profiteer?" Good! I knew you could1
#25 US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region
Democracy only works when people are well informed about the decisions they have to make. Clearly ours isn't working.
I remember an issue of Wired in about 1998 or 1999 predicting 25 years of unprecedented and uninterrupted growth.
I fear you may have confused correlation with causation. I agree with you that usury laws should be restored. I recently made the error of missing a payment on a credit card only to find that not only did my rate on that card go ballistic (from around 8% to over 25%!) but it did on my other card as well. I do not however believe that the lack of usury laws are exclusively to blame for declining standard of living. That would be a massive oversimplification that fails to account for declining domestic natural resources, the freeing of global capital with the continued restraint on global labor, banking deregulation, and a host of other influences.
I really hoped that this would be about L. Bob Rife.
When our nation was young, corporations were on a much shorter leash. A corporation was given a charter for a specific enterprise. That charter could expire, or be revoked. When the charter term was over the owners would have to justify re-issuing the charter. I'm not suggesting we go back that far, but...
If we got a lot more strict about corporate charters we could solve all sorts of societal ills. If UnaCal is participating in the enslavement of Burmese to build it's pipeline, revoke the charter and sell of the assets. If Maxxam buys out Pacific Lumber and starts liquidating the inventory (California's forests) to pay the acquisition debt, revoke the charter and sell the assets to someone with morals. If some rich dude from Microsoft wants to hoard patents and then sue actual productive companies, then deny him a corporate charter in the first place, or revoke it when he makes an ass of himself.
This is simply not true. The degree to which they fall sideways may be minimized by the fact that they are not solid structures, but physics is physics and it applies to big things and small things. If you remove the support under one side of a big thing then it will tip over. Interesting that you mention momentum though. The fact that WTC7 collapsed to the ground at very near free fall acceleration defies the law of conservation of momentum. One would expect that from a limited failure of select structural members weakened by fire that the building would not collapse at free fall acceleration because all of the intact structure of the building would slow the collapse. In fact WTC7 collapsed completely in about 6.6 seconds. You can measure the collapse time yourself because video is widely available on the web.
The most important thing here is that various hypotheses could be TESTED by experiment or computer simulation. I am not alone in my suggestion that further investigation is needed. The FEMA report itself admits that it's hypothesis is unlikely and suggests further investigation.
This comes from section 5.7 Observations and Findings, in the report issued by FEMA and titled "World Trade Center Building Performance Study" "The loss of the east penthouse on the videotape suggests that the collapse event was initiated by the loss of structural integrity in one of the transfer systems. Loss of structural integrity was likely a result of weakening caused by fires on the 5th to 7th floors. The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time. Although the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to resolve this issue."
I added emphasis.
My cell phone has a button right in the middle of the the various menu buttons. If I push it it starts connecting my to the "Tzones" and charges me $0.35. I call it the 35 cent button. I can't disable it. I can't reprogram that button. I only screw up once every other month but if every Tmobile customer screws up 1time/60days and gets a $0.35 charge that will sure add up for Tmobile. Personally I think that it is wire fraud.
You ought to be able to program time limits for various services into a phone. When you're 13 you get 5 sms per day. You get more each year if your grades are good and you are responsible. If you're like me set it to 0 and you cannot accidentally use the stupid service.
On a different but related topic, it continues to dumbfound me that cell phones are allowed in the k-12 classroom at all!!! How can any teacher compete with that kind of constant distraction?
There are significant differences between the freeway collapse and the WTC collapse. The fire in California was fueled by gasoline. The fires in WTC7 were fueled by diesel. Gas burns MUCH faster than diesel releasing energy at a higher rate. The fire in California was in the open air and was able to burn without restriction. The fire in WTC7 was burning in an enclosed space with limited oxygen. In California only one steel support needed to completely fail for collapse to begin and the debris fell asymmetrically with one corner still attached, as would be expected. WTC7 collapsed entirely within it's own footprint and at nearly free fall acceleration, to do so would have required simultaneous failure of most of the steel columns and on multiple floors.
The biggest difference is that the freeway collapsed exactly as physics would expect it to under the known circumstances. WTC collapsed in an exceedingly unlikely fashion for the known circumstances.
Does that mean that George W. Bush, in concert with Elvis and Israeli Space Aliens, destroyed the WTC towers? Of course not. It does mean that the official explanation is at odds with the basic physics. Which means that the story isn't true, and further investigation is warranted. Nothing more nothing less.
BR oh... if you want to live in a place that doesn't tolerate open discussion, then there are lots of places available, such as Iran. Please don't try to make my good old USA a place where dissenting views are bullied out of the discussion.
Professor Jones of BYU got a sample of the slag from the discovered molten material. He has analyzed it and found that the component metals match the components of Thermate (not thermite).
Okay so they get it, but is there anything worth watching on CBS? I honestly don't know since I got rid of my TV 2 years ago, and rarely watched the networks before then.
The Continuing Adventures of Jar Jar Binks
or
The Star Wars Holiday Special, Special Edition
or
The Holiday Special Strikes Back
or
The Young Han Solo Adventures
or
Howard the Jedi Duck
or
Correllian Graffiti
or
Jar Jar Binks and the Temple of Dumb
Who here agrees that Lucas is just beating a dead bantha?
They should make it retroactive and then apply it to the Department of Homeland Security. We know that politics has been the motive of raising the alert level.
0 -ridge-alerts_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-1
This would criminalize this deplorable government behavior. It would also make it illegal for the government to make up BS about WMDs in some poor country who's oil we want.
What's to say that this isn't water? Are teaching students supposed to swear off all liquids? Even assuming it is 120 proof grain alcohol, does that school have a rule against adult students drinking?
I keep thinking that Rod Serling is going to step out from behind a door and say, "A quiet campus in a quiet town becomes the stage for tragedy when teetotalers go on a witch hunt, in the Twilight Zone."
I am no more qualified to offer constructive input on say... the vexing issue of BSODs than a typical Microserf programmer is qualified to suggest design improvements to the combustion chamber in the engine of the next generation Honda. Sorry I'm not gonna sit here and take ANY blame for Win95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP, or Vista.
You know cigarette smokers somehow think that flicking their butts isn't littering. It pisses me off to no end. HEY SMOKERS, YEH YOU! Put them out and then throw those butts in the trash, pathetic litterbugs. It's bad enough we have to smell your stink, we shouldn't have to look at your trash strewn all over the place.
Hopefully not too many smokers have mod points today...
The internet is most of the computers of the world connected together. The internet is NOT the web. It is NOT email. Just like your computer is not MS Word. The web and email are things you can do with the internet just like word processing is something you can do with your computer.
I actually don't think that TCP/IP matters much in the definition of the internet anymore. Someday it is likely that we will adopt a new and hopefully improved protocol, and people will still call 'it' the internet.
Gee whiz, I thought that Vista itself was the malware?
I would love to have /. tell us what we as a group use. I have a website and I can look up what percentage of my hits were from each OS and each browser. I think it would be very interesting, it might make a good discussion. Especially on a slow news day (like today).
/. itself. I think that the moderation, meta-moderation, and karma systems are fascinating. A bi-annual state of the /. post with feedback about the various systems in place would be a huge value. I expect there will be much more of this sort reputation system in the future in both online and offline communities and there would be much to learn from /.
Actually I'd like to see more discussions about