The majority of these online forms are multiple screens long, and because they're invariably HTTPS, they'll time out after a finite time which isn't always made known to the user

I wonder why I even bother visiting Slashdot any more, when the basic workings of the web are not understood by the submitter nor the editors.

There is no language that seems to have more web relevance these days.

Yes, there is. It's Javascript.

You implied there's no way to convert Bitcoin to cash. That's laughably out of date.

Oh look, someone from the year 2010 who hasn't kept up with Bitcoin. How adorable.

To put the security difference into perspective, three random 6 character passwords that are stored using standard salted secure hashes can be cracked by a laptop in an hour.

Really? Okay, here are three NONrandom 6 character passwords that are stored using standard salted secure hashes:

a44a6d60ebc202a7d296d82a7eac5748b7a93474c996e533795d769b297e613c
5529ce75d4bf3bc7b488c8591906cc39bf5ac90feeeb9fbc278b0f98e03cafc6
9de700d2bc4fa3ed30a3459a9cffd7785c10f465c5b9cfb4a83d417e9347f0f9

Start your laptops, gentlemen. I'll even give you a hint. The first password is 123456. The second is abcdef.

I, too, have parents.

Bring the Real Money Auction House to a million new potential customers.

Node.js is an event-driven system utilizing callbacks on a single thread. (So after requesting data from the database Node can continue responding to other events until the database comes back with an answer - it doesn't sit there waiting.) Javascript is particularly suited to this environment due to anonymous functions and closures.

First I used Avast, but after a while it began bugging me to to buy the paid version, and slowed down my PC with ill-timed, intensive scans.

I switched to AVG, but after a while it began bugging me to to buy the paid version, and slowed down my PC with ill-timed, intensive scans.

Now I use Microsoft Security Essentials, which is surprisingly good. So far.

Complement with a Spybot Search and Destroy scan every now and then and you're good to go.

... the excellent A Grey Moon Over China by Thomas A. Day. A tale of the life of a futuristic soldier who escapes Earth in a colony ark to a far away system. There his group attempts to colonize while dealing with their own internal politics and a non-human threat. The mistakes and triumphs of a lifetime really add up, and the ending left me with a sense of sadness that I strongly remember now, a few years later.

Wonderful book.

After the first fatality involving one of these cars there will be a crippling uproar and/or legal battles.

Summary links to page two of the article.

page one

I always tell them my email address is a secret. Works every time. They ask for personal information but don't require any.

I didn't override the page's body background-color. No background-color was specified for me to override in any case.

I set a default color. Since no color was specified in the design my default was used.

You miss my point. I'm not complaining because I see my default background color. I'm pointing out that the CSS in question specifies font colors, faces, and other style elements while omitting body background-color. Yet the elements which are styled rely on a light gray or white body background.

If any background color were to suit the design, this would not be an issue. But that is not the case so this is an omission and mistake.