If you go for a period of time without auto insurance, i.e. not driving, you fall into the automotive indemnity bracket (steeply inflated rates) when you acquire another vehicle and insure it. You are, in effect, punished for not consuming the mandated good.

What you already have rarely stays exciting. This is why affairs happen.

Heaven forbid that the only clear alternative, aside from either cheap contracting or paying more taxes, might be to decrease government spending in the first place.

It always seemed to me that the greatest benefit of tracking the position / geometry of a user's eyes would be for determining their focal point. The user will look at your information directly if it's needed, but if it was always in focus they will be less fatigued by constantly changing focal points. In handheld devices this would allow you to glance at your phone by bringing into your field of view without having to take your focus off the road / sidewalk. Refining the technology enough that people could use computers at work without having to have corrective lenses on / in would do wonders.

It's easy to do amazingly positive things with a corporation, so long as you don't have public shareholders. Organized business is not wholly evil. You should try owning one sometime, it's a blast!

Holy crap... when I compare your comment with mine I can only conclude that we're doppelgangers!

I'm completely atypical in this respect, but I first learned to program in x86 assembly. Why? Because I was poor and the only computer I had was an XT clone that was given to me. I had no development tools except what came with DOS. I'm 27. I think the absolute best thing you could do is give him a computer to experiment with. Provide all of the tools for development, but don't try to prod him into your following. If the interest is there then curiosity will spur the pursuit.

Quit thinking in terms of chemical rockets. Put something massive in orbit, then attach ion engines and say best of luck.

What'd probably happen is about five years (as the travelers perceive it) after launch we'll develop faster-than-light travel and interrupt their journey. Or maybe just let them ride it out as a curious time capsule to cruise by and show buttcheek to.

I'm not saying that it justifies it in any way. I'm merely pointing out that scapegoating a company that does genuinely good things while ignoring the company that routinely dicks its customers is odd. Plus, if you had read yesterday's article, you would understand that google is purging IP addresses from the records.

The one thing that strikes me as silly about the "what if Google datamines our DNS requests" concern is that those people assume their ISPs aren't already doing so.

I'm fairly certain that ShadowRangerRIT was talking about local networks only. He's referring to internal QoS, which will in no way affect the total bandwidth he's using relative to the ISP. The connection is saturated in both scenarios. Using QoS internally, he's just prioritizing his traffic.

No, it's time to market sheet rock with embedded tight mesh chicken wire and grounding points at all of the seams.

You call bullshit? Well I call "I was there" and I have the passport stamp to prove it. I didn't think the guy with the gun would smile for the camera, otherwise I'd have a picture for you! Even if you feel like discounting the assault weapon in the airport, maybe you can explain why a group of six officers, three in green uniforms and three in blue, travelling around the Haupt-Bahnhoff as a group is necessary for the safety of ordinary train travel? I'm not insinuating that Germany is some sort of crazy fucked-over police state. I'm just pointing out the differences in projected presence of force versus the US. Time to ignore slashdot and get back to good beer and sauerkraut...