No. And I consider it to be a feature, not a bug.

noscript has a means of doing this on a per-site basis. Wildcards are accepted.

not a "snap" for me. That's a play on an old yellow pages commercial.
You are quite right that the full fingerprint is not generally found in web logs, but user agent string plus IP address is -- and that is not a bad fingerprint, in itself. Now if you happen to be

• a major online retailer that also offers cloud computing services.
• a major search engine that also offers online apps
• a major social networking site with tendrils all over the 'net
• a major web hosting/colo company
• a government that likes to keep tabs on dissidents

you could easily have access to the sorts of logs in question.
And those sorts of logs are attractive targets for data mining by third parties of various sorts.

The general public still has very little awareness that web surfing is, at least potentially, a lot less anonymous than one might think or hope.

Is this a problem? That depends on one's individual situation.

Ah, but if you can be ID'd on a single site, much of what you do can be tracked. A lot of http access logs are web-accessible.
So if I can associate you with your browser signature on ANY site, I can let my google fingers do the walking. It's a snap.

Link to a pdf version of the paper? Given recent security problems with that format, does anyone else find it funny?

You forgot the methane and C02 produced by the cows.

The snake oil then was a carburator, not fuel injector.

Carburation was one bit of snake oil. There was also:

• fuel additives/catalysts
• super spark plugs
• gadgets to increase voltage to those plugs to make a better spark and as a result faster, more efficient combustion
• gadgets to change the airflow pattern in the combustion chamber

and others.
I witnessed one demo in which the mods worked so well that as the demo guy yanked spark plug wires off the plugs, the engine ran better and better. It purred like a kitten when he was down to two working cylinders on a V8. And people were still buying it.

Same snake oil that was being pitched at county fairs in the 1970s.
Nothing to see here, please move along.

Commercial fusion power will be a reality in 20 years.

can't find anything that's changed

hmm. I had birthday set to nobody. After the "upgrade" it was set to everybody. One or two other settings were similarly affected.

Ribbons, Spheres...
We're all in the middle of a cosmic rhythmic gymnastics competition!

Almost.
the ,8 specified device 8 (generally the primary floppy drive) rather than the default cassette tape drive.
(The under 30 drive probably has no idea what either device looks like)
the ,8,1 specifies not only device 8, but that code should load not to the default memory loading location (where basic expects it to be) but rather where the code "wants" to live -- the programmer saves with similar options so the code will load into memory ranges used by the programmer when s/he wrote the code.

It booted into the basic interpreter by default, leaving you with 38K for basic. You could configure the memory differently. Writing in assembly not only offered a huge improvement in speed, but freed up the memory range from B000 to Bfff. (And the C000 range was often used by calls to machine language subroutines from basic.)
So, no, it was not just a basic interpreter.
There's at least one running as a web server now.
I won't post the link to it. It takes very little to induce the slashdot effect on that hardware.

University town. Traffic jams caused by students driving SUVs a few blocks to class.
Exacerbated by students crossing against the light.
And by students standing at the edge of the crosswalk and NOT crossing when cars stop for them.
And by students crossing 30 feet from a crosswalk. Without looking first.
I once suggested that law enforcement cadets be stationed at busy areas and pass out traffic safety coloring books for those who obviously missed on them in grade school.

Call it radiant floor heating?