So then they can store it in a database and, the next time you jaywalk, the hair you dropped will implicate you in a crime.

Do you really have to learn jQuery? I feel like a skilled developer should be able to become productive using that library pretty quickly.

Why? Is it really that much of a time investment?

Dictionary definitions are basically irrelevant when it comes to determining what's legal. If it were as simple as looking it up in the dictionary, we wouldn't need lawyers or the legal system. The reason we _do_ have those things is that ethical questions are never so cut and dry. The ideas of "freedom" and "liberty" are defined by the long history of legal precedent.

Hear hear. Also, that's one killer user ID :).

There goes theonion.com's search ranking.

Those numbers seem totally bogus. It seems like there would be 30,000 gas stations in Tokyo and surrounding areas alone.

what's bad for their bottom line is bad for America.

How is a certificate anything like a cookie? Cookies are unique to clients. Certificates are unique to servers. You can't use a server's SSL cert to track its users. And, unless Verizon has figured out a way to crack SSL connections in real time, they can't be injecting any headers into web requests made through HTTPS.

Leonard McCoy is rolling over in his grave.

With that typo, I thought you were saying it was better than a witch somehow. I'm not sure how...witches are pretty cool.

All the secretive talk about this company's product reminds me a lot of the Segway launch.

Why would you even want that?! I would have nightmares for the rest of my life after playing that game in VR!

If you read the findings 2012 Canadian study carefully, you'll see that they could not rule out transmission due to droplets called fomites. This is a different mode of transmission than aerosol. The authors of the study suggested that further experiments would need to be conducted to rule out other factors. People have been routinely misinterpreting these findings. I urge anyone to read the "Discussion" section of the study in which this issue is clarified. http://www.nature.com/srep/201...

Honestly, I'm kind of surprised the powers that be let this one through.