The French TGV did 357mph in 2007, six years ago. Interestingly, it was not a mag-lev prototype, it was a modified production train on a standard TGV track.

OK, I guess I am due for another round of PC mail software review. I used Thunderbird in the distant past, but at the time I did not have as many accounts and I had a Blackberry which integrated very well with Outlook, so I eventually went back to Outlook for the integration. But to be honest, I have not found anything that would give me the same level of integration (mail, contacts, calendar) under Android, so I am still kinda looking.

Actually, it would be desirable to encrypt all data, not just "the data that is important enough to encrypt" if we ever want encryption to be universally used and easy to use.

The government has the public key only. You cannot decrypt anything with the public key. Google "public key encryption" to know what it means.

The prevalence of web mail services is what prompted me to pretty much abandon Outlook and distinct web pages for each account (and the whole PC for that matter) and I now predominantly use my phone or tablet for email, unless I have a lot of writing to do.

I use K-9 on my Android phone and tablet, and in one client, I have my eight email accounts and more flexibility than I could imagine having on the PC, without the barrage of ads that most webmail clients send you on the PC.

The only way for me to return to the PC would be to have a K-9 like client for the PC.

I fail to understand how video ads would lure me to facebook.

Video ads have done a good job of luring me away from broadcast and cable television (except for premium, ad-free channels)

I have flashblock installed on all my browsers and am very happy with it.

What is the attraction of video ads for the user?

When I saw that the second advert was over a minute, I gave up too.

I can't imagine that such a system could ever backfire. When was the last time software did not work as expected?

It is unbelievable that somebody would actually propose something like that.

How about DNA? How about the thought that somebody could patent my own DNA and there is nothing I can do about it? Revolting.

It may have been better to say something like: "those who choose science as a field of study also endorse more stringent moral norms."

It's not like an idiot about to rape somebody will change his mind after thinking of science...

What a well formed posting, thank you!

Legal precedent only means anything when the rule changes the interpretation of a law, not when the rule is about facts. The rule did not clarify the law, it simply affirmed the law.

Well I do not believe this prediction. If the court had meant for the record companies to stop, they would have awarded attorney's fees this time around.

What that judgement tells me is that the courts are still in the record company's pockets, even when they are wrong, which they are more often than not. They could not say the law was not what it is, but they did the next best thing by killing Veoh another way.

This can happen as many time as needed, lather, rince and continue.

They are paying you, just not in cash. They are paying you by providing valuable services for free.

I am concerned about the privacy issues as well, but I am also concerned about availability. Google is well known for dropping services at whim, and I am concerned about some service that has become essential to me being dropped.

I would prefer to pay for these services to not only have privacy of my data, but also if it could provide some assurance that the service will not be dropped overnight.