Thank you for the very informative reply!

Doesn't higher memory density result in a greater chance for cosmic radiation to flip bits?

With greater power savings and more memory per module, adding ECC to the mix shouldn't be too painful.

These are the current requirements for getting a working .xxx domain in either Sunrise or Landrush. (No mention of open registration once landrush is over, but the requirements will probably be the same.

Sponsored Community Validation Process:

      1. Person/company submits an application for a name in Sunrise A or Landrush with their registrar of choice — they pay their registrar directly for that.
      2. ICM sends the person/company an introduction email that includes a validation link — to the Registrant Contact email address provided with their application.
      3. The person/company clicks on the validation link in the ICM email and is directed to the ICM Membership Application.
      4. The person/company fills out the ICM Membership Application — free of charge. (Takes about 5 minutes to complete — only have to do this one time per email account, not per domain.)
      5. As a part of ICM's Membership Application, the person has to provide the following:
                  1. Address
                  2. Phone Number
      6. As a part of ICM's Membership Application, the person has to attest to the following:
                  1. Provide correct birth date information
                  2. Agree to ICM's Registry-Registrant Agreement
                  3. Attest to being a member of the Sponsored Community
      7. ICM will call the phone number provided during the Membership Application.
      8. In that phone call, ICM will provide the person with a PIN # (real time) and the applicant will input the PIN# in the designated area in the Membership Application process.
      9. Once the person completes the Membership Application, ICM provides the registrar a Membership Token thus allowing all of the .xxx domain names associated with that email account to resolve.

There already is a .kids.us sub-domain of the .US TLD. The managing company does content enforcement.

How is investing in someone else's business better than starting your own? Assuming you want to start your own business and have the perseverance to see it through. Yes, most new businesses fail. But a lot of stocks are uncertain in this market as well.

Can you not keep your side business intact, for the few clients you already have? Think of the tax benefits of internet access write-offs, etc.

That's the opposite of what you should be thinking. NOW is the best time to start a business, to get all the early "business building" crap out of the way so when the economy does begin growing again, your business is in a good position to grow along with it.

If you wait until the roller coaster has started climbing, you'll be left on the platform and not in a seat.

Each ccTLD operator is not necessarily limited to just the domains under that ccTLD. If China maintains a root server, and they have the private keys for the root, they can then sign their own .com keys, and then sign domains under .com. (And even if they only have the .cn private keys, and SSL trust was solely implemented in DNSSEC, now you can't trust your SSL connection to any .cn domain!)

Using DNSSEC for publishing certs and extra identity information is a cool idea, but it's not a good idea to replace all other trust mechanisms. Granted, the current CA model is broken, but there are good ideas out there for distributed models where we don't have to trust governments.

Marlinspike makes some good points here.

But my rail-freight-delivered Russian caviar will have to pass through CANADA to get from Alaska to the mainland!

Seems like a customs nightmare to get from China > Russia > Canada > US, but taking a train from New York to London, the long way, would be a fun trip.

You might get people to buy into that if the premise of a god is the "benevolent bystander" such that s/he/they created the physical laws of our universe like program code, pressed "run", and watched the big bang, etc. unfold. But once a god can start interacting with these physical laws and making one-time exceptions (miracles) based on telecommunication (prayer), then they're no longer "bystanders".

How do scientific discoveries and new understandings of our universe aid in creation myth? Shouldn't we be able to test for the existence or at least divine intervention of a god or gods?

This looks like it scans cars, containers, and even buildings if they chose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABPKd0vFxQ

I don't have time to play MMOGs, but people I know who play WoW and the like have recently moved to playing Rift as their new fantasy MMO of choice.

Isn't that a pain to keep switching the User Agent though? Some sites /are/ well designed for mobile, and I enjoy that on the mobile browser. I suppose some sort of menu setting or quick-action extension (see mobile firefox for android, etc) could work. But like the GP pointed out, by the time you've changed user agents, the deep link broke and presumably you have to go find it and click it again.

We also want legislators to sunset/remove laws in addition to creating new ones. Unfortunately they're only paid for new legislation (though sometimes they are compensated for stalling or preventing new laws).

But what if the Man in the Middle hosts the VPN and simply forwards your traffic to the VPN on the wifi router?