My point is that the sites in .xxx will get indexed just like everything else. It will show up in search results just like everything else. Like another poster mentioned, .xxx would be targeted by users looking for whatever porn criteria they are trying to find. If you are concerned that .xxx doesn't show up when someone is using safe search, what do you think the intent of safe search is? Do you honestly think Google will avoid indexing the .xxx TLD and miss out on all of that ad revenue?

The primary place this move might affect porn sites is with people browsing for porn at work or at school, where those network owners might prefer to block it. That shouldn't affect the porn sites revenue greatly, as the location and time of porn access will get shifted to the home, etc.

Microsoft won't patent the dot-x-x-x keystroke. They will add it as a new key on the keyboard next to the Windows button (and that would be patentable if not for this prior art).

I don't think it would harm them at all. People that are trying to find porn aren't going to have any problem finding it. I doubt many people that do Google searches for non-porn terms but get some inadvertent porn links choose to bookmark those porn sites for later use. Likewise, if someone is searching for porn, and no .xxx sites are showing up in the results, that person is probably going to do a Google search for "Why aren't .xxx sites showing in my search results." Sand-boxing to a .xxx is a good thing for users who might be going to websites without thinking about alternative possibilities For example, "I was curious about running shoes, so I went to dicks.com thinking it would be the Dick's Sporting Goods site. Boy was I wrong." or a bigger issue in the US for a while "Went to whitehouse.com, but that wasn't the President's house."

I don't think it's a coincidence. System Admins deserve some free chicken wing love today.

It is on Sunday and maybe Wednesday. The rest of the week it's football, although there is some intermingling as many football fans seem to think that God wants their team to win.

Unless the officer utilized implied consent as the basis for the search, perhaps under the guise that he found the driver to be evasive when he suspected possible influence of drugs or alcohol. More information about implied consent can be found here.

In regards to doughnuts: I have a friend who worked as a police dispatcher. I made a cop / doughnut joke around her once. She informed me that cops only like donuts that are free to them. Unless someone else pays, they aren't likely to consume. If you have a bunch of doughnuts, you might, however, have an effective bribe.

Don't worry. The US has a corporate counter-strategy that could be known as the "Billion Clogged Arteries." The overt health destruction agency known as KFC is having a very successful deployment in China.
Deep Fried Success

Although the larger brewers have bought many brands, your estimate of 90% is quite high[1]. I would agree that more than 90% is distributed by the large brewers, at least in the US because of the three tier distribution process required by federal law since the repeal of prohibition[2].

Citations:
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_the_United_States
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-tier_(alcohol_distribution)

Have you been to an SEC stadium for a football game? No special technology is required to jam the cell phones. The extreme concentration of people with phones usually overwhelms the capacity of the cell networks. The real danger from the conference's perspective is the home viewer tweeting details of each play. Most of the cell activity at the game is people trying to coordinate with family and friends about locations and refreshments, game statistics, or scores from other games. Overall, the last thing the SEC needs to focus on is twitter effect on revenue. Their television contracts are huge in terms of both dollars and ratings. Given the choice of a Twitter feed for updates, television, or the in-stadium experience, even the most casual fan will pick Twitter last.

Twitter, however, is excellent for people trying to keep track of sports from colleges and universities that don't have large television or radio presence. My alma mater is a prime example. It's located in a very rural location and most graduates move far away after graduation. As an FCS/I-AA school, television appearances are rare. Only a couple of radio stations actually air the games. That leaves a streaming audio stream from the campus radio station and Twitter. Twitter has the added bonus of recreating some of community experience since many of my friends might be following along and commenting as things unfold.

Supporting my argument about the cell networks, I went to a game between my alma mater and Tennessee at Neyland Stadium last year. The game wasn't quite a sell-out, but attendance was around 99,000. Doing anything on the cell phone was an exercise in futility.

I had the exact same thought and was reading comments to make sure I wasn't the only one.

It's bad because it specifically targets one religion. That runs contrary to the concept of separation of church and state. Also, the legislature was wasting time debating and voting on this when it is not even remotely a problem in the state. There's not a single community in Tennessee where Muslims are concentrated enough to affect government policy to enact parts of Sharia Law on a town or city.

As a former Tennessean, it saddens to say that by moving to Mississippi for a job I ended up being in the more reasonably and progressively governed state. That might seem like an exaggeration, but the Government in Tennessee changed dramatically in the last state election. Before that, there was the occasional poorly written or conceived law that passed, like allowing guns in bars and other establishments where alcohol is served. Since the beginning of the year when the new legislature took office, there has been a deluge of this type of legislation or at least proposed bills. Examples off the top of my head include:

1. Don't Say Gay - Teachers in TN can't acknowledge the existence of homosexuality in the classroom
2. Ban on Sharia Law
3. Overturning a Nashville Metro Anti-discrimination law with a state law making local government laws on discrimination illegal
4. Making it illegal for teachers to unionize
5. Anti-evolution education / Protection to teach Creationism

To put it simply, the Tennessee Legislature is putting the state on the path to race to the bottom. Congratulations Mississippi and Arkansas!

They do that to keep most Americans out.

It seems like everyone is forgetting that the US has standing arrangements with Pakistan for overflight. It is very likely that portions of the mission were known by the Pakistani Military in advance. Perhaps some elements of the plans were slightly misleading to make sure the target wasn't compromised. This incident is not like the US sneaking helicopters into Moscow during the cold war or something.