Yes, I do know, the reason why I am upset is that many names seem to be just companies protecting their brand name. What's the purpose of .bbc? The BBC applied for it, because the had to. Or how about .audi?

Reading that list makes me really angry. ICANN is doing a big disservice to everybody with the new TLDs.

buy a copy of an old Winning Eleven and play it on my laptop now.

Physical laws only apply in TFA, titles exist in a parallel universe where physics does not have strict laws and the only thing that matters is clicks.

"The only secure computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a safe,
and buried 20 feet under the ground in a secret location... and I'm
not even too sure about that one" -- Dennis Huges

Now we just need to create concrete digging computer viruses and we are there.

One/two dollar(s) per month to have a Facebook NOT sell my personal information. That would be much more than what Facebook is making per user at the moment (3.7B$ in revenue with ~800 million users in 2011). However, this feature would implicitly acknowledge to the public that they are selling your information. This is something that everybody sort of knows, but perhaps they don't want to make it clear.

Yep. The math checks out, I am a RIAA mathematician.

Something like that already exists (check the GunStock Shooter). If you use it in a war zone though there might be collateral damage.

It was probably immersed into a Somebody Else's Problem (SEP) field.

Slashdot should have a script that finds relevant XKCD comics for every story. About 23% of all the posts link to XKCD anyhow.

Ha! Echelon! Didn't you get the memo? The project was renamed about 8 years ago, now it's called Facebook.

A Slashdot-like service should be integrated in the patent review system. It appears to me that, every time there is a new software patent that makes it on Slashdot, in a matter of minutes somebody will find some relevant and non-trivial prior art. Just like the parent poster and others around did. I think that a patent should be pre-issued and be in an informal "challenge" phase. In this phase, the patent could be set up on a moderated website like Slashdot where people can point out the relevant prior art. If the patent remains unchallenged it can be granted, otherwise the patent office can take a couple more days to analyse the top "challengers".

I know that, theoretically, a system like this is already in place, since after the patent is granted it can be challenged in a court of law. However, this system is prone to abuse and too expensive.

I herd you like Sql, so we injected Sql in your Sql so you can have Sql while you code MySql

to ask people now and see what they think the Internet is.

That's exactly right!

Please read these two blog posts about the consequences of P=NP from an expert in the field:

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/why-believe-that-pnp-is-impossible/
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/insider-baseball-and-pnp/