Mod up the parent. Saying something is better than corn based ethanol is like saying "driving an Expedition to the corner store to pick up 1 gallon of milk, is more efficient than pouring gasoline in your toilet." While technically true, it isn't very informative.

For non-Americans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Expedition --- Notice lack of MPG or other economy rating.

I would pay to see a website if it were a yearly subscription with a price comparable to magazine subscriptions. (i.e. $20/year plus or minus $10)

Monthly subscriptions are pointless. I do the math and say "no way will I pay $120/year for this content."

Now it has to be quality content, which is sadly a stretch for many papers these days.

Last time I read the military specs for harddrive disposal, moderately sensitive data disks should be deleted and zero'ed 7 times. (That options is on the Mac Disk Utility, BTW.)

If you are interested in this type of thing, I suggest listening to the FIB podcast interviewing Michio Kaku or read his book Physics of the Impossible , which also discusses teleportation.

I don't see why google doesn't just put some basic google text ads on the right of youtube served up based on the description of the video and the content of the comments. Heck I just went there now and saw an ad for Civony (http://www.civony.com/tour.php). So whats the problem? Not enough ad revenue to offset the bandwidth charges?

Tried the Duct tape option?

Somebody had to clean their underwear. Is the testimonial still in google cache? If so some people should print it out and mail it to all congressmen at present for the testimony.

The captcha is entered into a field and submitted to the web server. However our random highlights, backspacing, scrolling etc. all happens in the browser on our system. The web server (thank ______ ) doesn't know about any of that, it just sees the end result. So it doesn't have access to any of that data, to make any kinda of determination. Currently only malware would be collecting this data and sending it somewhere. So the proposal here is to be human verified by malware.

There are other flaws that others have pointed out.

If you are a business trusting mission critical data or computing to the cloud, then you need to verify how well the cloud handles these issues. Just because they have a big data center doesn't mean that they have redundant services spread across the data center and multiple data centers in case one is hit by a disaster. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/03/23/carbonite-lawsuit-reveals-data-loss/

Haven't seen android myself, but Leo Leport predicted this on a twit podcast.

If these leaders of the corporate world couldn't see this 3,000 miles and 6 years away, then that shows that you too can run a Fortune 500 company. What will surprise me is if Oracle kills MySQL. I suspect that MySQL would be the perfect way to attack SQL Server from the bottom and Use Oracle to attack from the top. Just squeeze MS from the top and bottom in the database space.

That isn't to say the University experience should be dead. There is much to be gained by bringing people together physically as well as virtually to improve the learning process. At school you often learn as much from fellow students as you do from the professors. And lets not for get the research that good universities do.

However there is little place in the modern world for a room where you sit and listen to a person "spout" knowledge at you. It is probably the case that that was NEVER a good approach to teaching anyway.

I like the idea of at least part of the tax structure if not all of it being tied to Resource Use and Pollution creation.

I have been predicting this for years. (Google Search).

Oracle wants to control Java. And MySQL might be a good bat to beat SQL-Server with. That way oracle can compete on the low end without tarnishing the high priced image of their main DB offering.