For things in plain view. As in things they can see through your windows. For instance, if they see a pound of weed on your passenger seat then it's fair game.

They can't search the inside of your car or make you open the trunk. That is, unless they suspect you of a crime and are going to arrest you or if you let them (which you don't have to). But in that case they won't ask and they'll just search the car while you're handcuffed in the back of the cruiser.

I realize that means nothing when you're dealing with a cop on a power trip that's willing to lie on a final report. It is good to know though when dealing with most cops, especially the one's who can get very demanding and try to intimidate you.

I think my post may make it look like I'm running a *nix variant, but I'm running Windows. My firewall is set to allow any local network connections out of convenience. I hadn't even thought about blocking port 80 before and if I were just starting to use the hosts file to block ad servers that would be the best way. As of now though, I've come to like the logging part (and my firewall wouldn't make as detailed logs) and will be keeping this setup until I grow bored of the logs.

Well they're off to a good start as they're already running a torrent tracker for their Blue Marble image collections...

Off topic, but this quote from their FAQ is refreshing. They should share it with media companies and ISPs

Indeed. I have a lighttpd instance running on my computer just for this reason. It serves up a single page containing only the following text:

And if anyone is wondering why I'm running an HTTP server just for this it's because serving the 404 kills the request much quicker than letting the browser timeout the connection. Lighttpd is very light on resources but also allows me to have access logs, which allows me to get some interesting data. For instance, I split the logs up by month and here are some of the sizes:

• June (to date): 2.95 MB with 13,550 lines
• May: 2.87 MB with 11,354 entries
• April: 2.69 MB with 14,931 entries

I've also written a perl script to import the logs into an SQLite database. Which allows things like:

All hosts blocked with over 1,000 hits (from the aforementioned April to June logs)

req_subd req_domain Total hits

ad doubleclick 14556
www google-analytics 3927
media fastclick 3339
ads adbrite 1920
content pulse360 1692
ad yieldmanager 1158

Considering the response the girl and her family received from the town after the rant was posted, I don't think the people in Coalinga care. If anything, the paper was only reinforced in its decision since it caused such reactions.

The response of the residents reminds of the response in the myspace suicide fiasco and yet no one was even hurt in this instance. All she did was rant about how she hates the town.

It seems to me she was right to despise Coalinga.

I think you might be interested in the Pale Blue Dot picture (so named by Carl Sagan). It's a picture of earth taken by Voyager 1 from 3.7 billion miles away.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

Facebook or YouTube (or similar sites) should post this poll. It'd be interesting to see how sites with different demographics end up voting.

Wouldn't he still be able to value of that specific instance of that number? Given enough queries (or if they're able to figure out the data structure) couldn't this expose a lot of data, even if time consuming?

I'm not stating any of this is true, I'm just geniunely curious if it would work like that.

Couldn't a scientist fall under all 3 of those?

Makes things happen: initiate a chemical reaction
Lets things happen: watch what happens after initiating said chemical reaction
Ask "What the hell just happened?" when something unexpected happens and then they try to find out.

You are aware that both the examples you give (google front page and slashdot) both render with javascript off, right? They function as well. The javascript just adds more, it's not spitting out the main content.

Javascript should not be creating the main content on your site unless it's a "web application", and even then a lot of applications should still be able to produce something usable.

Alright, here you go: http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/

Oh, it's open source too (GPL). Here's the code: http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/v1.7.3/midpssh.zip

Oh, it's J2ME too, so it can run on any phone that has java.

Don't you mean "Streaming digital video at 11"?

Would a playlist be able to get around this?

Say I have a video 30 minutes long but I split it into three 10 minute clips. In the flash player (or perhaps with javascript and the video tag) I implement a playlist feature that plays clips immediately after one another and put all 3 sections into one playlist. Would that avoid the higher fees?

This is a good point. My first DVD player was a new laptop that came with a DVD drive and that's where I watched my first DVD. It took a little time after that before I got my first standalone DVD player.

While it's (probably) true that a lot of Iranians support the current government, I don't think you can say the "overwhelming majority" support it. The current situation proves this -- the people are pissed. They tried to do it the right way and they still got screwed by, what seems to be, a rigged election.