Hey! On a related note now there is a list of all file sharing domains in one place: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/?r=all-time - neatly organized.

Ah, finally, all those Online-something goodies for chkdsk. I've always wanted to have Windows Activation Wizard popping up before my chkdsk session, just in case I was in doubt was my copy legitimate. (It is btw)

You can have open-access journal with peer reviewing. Revenue the journals amass isn't exactly going to peer review. It would be better for universities to join the forces and make one open-access & optionally could include peer reviewed section, which would be financed by collection of universities.

And THAT would be a technical knockout.

From the IEEE-Article: "What’s more, the early reports incorrectly asserted that, because the challenge seems so difficult, teams were not expected to succeed the first time around. This is not the case, Pratt said. 'The challenge will be adjusted as we get experience with the teams over this first phase,' he said. 'What we’re going to make sure is that the challenge is difficult but not impossible.'"

I'm from Finland were individuals and (at least that I know of) small companies can submit income taxes through provided internet forms, and individuals gets them pre-filled. (It still isn't perfect but it does have some validation and such...)

But first answer above "this is the kind of product that is done with help of lawyers and accountants" begs the question how freaking complicated is the US taxation forms?

I have 1050 pixels wide window, it is just fine for the Slashdot itself but the damned videos gets clipped from the right.

Make the player to scale by the width of the window and element around it.

Many of them are bloated with animations and other crap. Very slow to switch desktop, the primary feature!

VirtuaWin is pluggable, and has all one might need. I use it for 6 desktops, each has it's own timer I can reset (to track time of my paid projects). Additionally own background color thru plugin, so that I notice the desktop I'm on more easily.

Also it has a comprehensive setup to configure which windows are allowed to be tracked. It is important as there are programs you don't want to be tracked e.g. password keeper (KeePass) etc.

My favorite part:

This led to new initiative. There wasn't money in the IT budget to hire professional software engineers. Instead, they created a program to hire computer science savvy interns to work on the project.

Screw the professionals, interns inherit the future even in White House.

I've noticed when connecting my ADSL Router in LAN the Windows is a lot lot lot slower. I mean often seconds slower than my several years older Ubuntu box. The Ubuntu box loads up the pages in Router almost instantly.

It's something in Windows, regardless of the browser it just happens. I've noticed the problem with Windows Vista and Windows 7, can't remember if the problem existed in Windows XP.

In Dropbox one can create public link to file, and it is served by Dropbox servers. From copyright standpoint of view, they are "just as infringing" by the possibility that someone shares the link like in MegaUpload.

So this is frightening action by US.

If so, maybe they fixed it for US citizens only? Are you in US or elsewhere? After all why would they disable tracking for anyone else... There isn't legal pressure to do so.

No. What else is there? Thats right! Nothing... I'd say it's a whole lot, whole early.

Just like with Google Health, it was pioneering the idea which wasn't ripe for mass adoption yet. Idea behind Google Health is viable, it just needs more bureaucracy, help of government and time, more time.

I'd wager that they don't have to, instead they might have a access to cellular networks. Amount of phones out there, the chances are the backdoor will be found is immense, why would they risk it that way? Direct access as middle man in cellular networks is next to impossible to proof by hobbyists and alike.

I wouldn't worry about cloud service providers at this stage when the product doesn't even exist. Taken the fact how sucky the existing commercial office suites are it might be a while until it works... They should first develop it so that everyone can run it like in own servers etc?

When it works (in words real meaning) there will be no shortage of cloud service providers, I'm sure.

There is some benchmarks at SmallNetBuilder you might be interested in, I've been eyeing on those for my next router.