Great. And if you go to the MAKE magazine url in the GPP and paste your suggested URL, it says "Could not verify the OpenID provided: The address entered does not appear to be an OpenID".

An AC also responded to my original post with a different URL. Produces the same error. Even on Slashdot, site of techies and geeks, it's difficult to solve this problem... (this is not meant to reflect on you personally, just the situation)

Mod parent up. As much as it seems silly that the two losing parties still remain in power, it isn't when you think of it. If combined they still represent more votes (and thus a higher percentage of people's views), shouldn't they be the ones in power rather than a party that a majority of people didn't want?

This is pretty much what happened when Nader "spoiled" the vote for Gore in Florida back in 2000. Even if you discount the whole recount issue, if Nader hadn't been running most of his votes would have likely gone to Gore (both being liberals), and Gore would have easily won the state and the election. Similarly, if the UK were a 2-party system, the Labour and Lib Dems (which if I recall are both more similar to each other than the Conservatives) would be a single party and easily have won.

The benefits of having multiple parties is that no matter who "wins", without a clear majority the ruling coalition needs to be built on compromise. Whether it's Conservatives + Lib Dems, or Labour + Lib Dems, or one of the other permutations, the government can't go too far to one extreme. More importantly, minor parties are still needed to form a coalition, giving them a chance to make some of their views heard.

This can give new ideas—ideas that may be popular with the electorate but too risky/unknown to make traction with the main parties—a chance to be tested while still having a sort of buffer preventing them from being taken too far to quickly. Think, for example, the Pirate Party; major parties are too beholden to big corporate donations to advocate sensible copyright reform, yet that doesn't mean there shouldn't be advocates for it in the legislature.. Compare this to the US, where the two parties have been pretty stagnant for as long as anyone can remember, and new ideas are quickly shot down as "radical" from both sides

All Hype, And the volume control doesn't even go to eleven.

I love the Wii. I really do. However, the innovative qualities of the system have led to several irritating side effects, and the system itself has some drawbacks that irk me.

1. Aside form several specific examples, the only true blockbuster games on the system are whatever Nintendo makes. I'm mostly okay with this; I admit, I'd buy the system just for Mario and Zelda.
2. While innovative, the control method is also very much like a fad. It has led to the rise of a huge number of absolutely horrible games that make it out only because the use the Wii controller.
3. Call me shallow, but I really don't like scaling applied to my games.. The graphics quality doesn't matter that much to me, but the Wii simply looks like ass on an LCD TV. Lower texture resolutions are fine, my game looking like I'm not wearing contacts is not.

The end result is that I play my 360 a hell of a lot more than I play my Wii. The system has a lot of potential, but the games that come out just aren't worth much in general.

FTFA: ".. all images that are of little or no educational value .."

These images you mention seem to have educational value.

Yeah, there might be different opinions about how much is sufficient to be educational, but the comment is not "If this is porn/'inspiring', then it should be removed" but "little or no educational value but which appeal solely to prurient interests".

Sounds a bit low to me. If he were a real major league pitcher, he would get paid nearly $1 million just for showing up to a game, even if he lost.

Huh? This is akin to saying Coca Cola beat out Honda..

That's a big point I hadn't thought of.. are they planning to pirate all of the fonts? Surely their spammy business model doesn't afford them the margins to properly license all of the typefaces. Further, how will they accurately preserve layouts or typesetting? This is something the PDF format does extraordinarily well, it's unfortunate that all of the browser plugins are terrible (at least on Windows, which represents ~90% of their user base.) I admittedly have spent little to no time working with the format on a low level, but at a glance I don't see why PDF can't be rendered in-browser the same way we finally got SVG support..

Wanna bet? Trade has driven human intercourse for millennia. The "economy" is not going to disappear any time soon.

It may be seriously twisted by the unregulated banksters - but not killed.

The number of keys has become ridiculous, and with multiple cars (I have two, plus carry keys to my wife's) the large multikey/alarm that each car needs now adds major bulk as well. When I wear cargo pants, the side pockets solve the issue. Even when buying shorts now, I look for cargo type.... And it isn't just the keys. Wallet, keys, iPhone, sometimes an iPod, cash, maybe sunglasses... Where does a guy put his 'stuff'? If you have a backpack or messenger bag, fine. But what if you don't want to be carrying a bag around? I tried the photographer's vest for a while, but that gets as dorky as a 'fanny pack' (sorry to those who like either). Ugh. I have found one solution, at least for all but the hot summer months. A company called ScottEVest - www.ScottEVest.com - that makes pants, coats, shorts, tees, jackets, shirts, vests, etc. They not only multiple pockets, but have a lot of those pockets on the inside (yet still accessible) so you can carry a LOT (or not) but you don't look all bulky. They advertise more for the traveler, but I wear them daily! You have your hands free and no bags to lose. I started with a fleece that I can wear in fall and spring that has over 20 pockets and over 10 of them are really good size. For the winter I bought a coat (over 20 more pockets, lol) I can wear over the fleece. Now that summer is here, I'm back to cargo shorts if casual and using my wife's purse when dressed up and on the town. :-)

I imagine that it could evolve into something that is texture aware. Cutting carrots feels different from cutting flesh. Maybe it's possible to tell the difference between chicken, fish, beef, and baby.

You could easily replace the door knob and deadbolt with matching keys...I have this in my apartment (but unfortunately the back door has non-matching keys and I am not going to pay to replace 4 locks in a rental to carry around one less key).

Same here. In fact, when some game I had pirated in the past came up on Steam, I usually bought it.

That reminds me, I need to buy the id pack next time its on sale :)

The solution is pretty already for the most part in place, and occurs at the browser level. Most of the browser vendors have known about this for years (since 2005 I believe) and implement a combination of whitelists, phishing filters, and Punycode to avert the problem .

Other possibilities they could add is highlighting the background of any URL not in the user's native character set, or that uses characters of different sets, write those suspect characters in bold, or pop up a security dialog. The problems with these approaches it that they are much more prone to user error than a default-enabled filter. How many real-users (as in, outside the slashdot crowd) would known what the changed background or bold letters mean? How many just ignore any popup dialog that appears and hit OK to get on with it? At least something like Punycode it's a lot easier to see something wrong with the URL, and the phishing screens are much more likely to be noticed than a simple pop-up.

And your password is as short and simple as "sugar" (from the article) you deserve to be targeted by Chinese script-kiddie hackers.