Good luck getting Apple to play along. While I prefer their design, I doubt they'd even license out the spec to other manufacturers.

This should be easily handled with a browser plugin.

For those of you saying "browse more with SSL", this is primarily going to benefit site owners with more targeted ads, who will know it doesn't work with SSL.

For those of you saying "use Adblock", that won't stop site owners from using this information for other purposes. Some sites will already have this information, particularly if you do e-commerce with them. But others may not. Do you really want midgetporn.com to know where you live?

Martin Gardner probably had more impact on my intellectual development and rigor of thinking as a teenager than anyone else. As an adult, his book "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener" had more impact on my thoughts on philosophy than anyone else. My hat is off to him.

And yet, at the same time English (and presumably also Mandarin, with which I have no experience whatsoever) is constantly being fractured into dialects that are sometimes unintelligible to one another. You cannot conclude from the loss of distinct languages that overall human expressive capacity is diminished, only that the organizational taxonomy of human language is changing.

The glaring lack of proper nouns (specifically, people in my contacts or people I know, my individual pets, etc) makes this not so useful to me.

If you think that only people who have porn (or even laptops) should be worried about this, YOU have bigger problems.

Well, Australia just came off my honeymoon list.

how'd you get that past the lameness filter? sorceress indeed...

I run a 50 TB (and growing) pair of Documentum repositories on a SQL Server cluster. The only performance issues we've had can be traced to the storage system, not to the database.

Wish I had mod points today to mod this one up. Proficiency with a coding language or even frameworks or libraries only matters to a limited extent. Proficiency in triage and identification of issues, skills in enterprise scale design, preemptive anticipation of issues both technical and bureaucratic, understanding how costs affect your project... this is stuff that the vast majority of employees can only gain via experience. Coding at home with a stack of books or bookmarked Internet tutorials simply won't get you there.

Not terribly insightful. Deciding to pursue a buyout (or go public) has nothing to do with altruism for employees compensated by stock options - assuming he's in business to make a return on his investment (and that's safe until you clearly demonstrate otherwise), it's in his selfish interest to keep his employees reasonably happy. Part of that is making good on the implicit promise that as an owner, you will try your best to make those options worthwhile. Departing employees, especially in a startup, leave with important IP in their heads, including a lot of know-how about the business. Replacing them is non-trivial. An exodus en masse could very well permanently cripple the business.

Describing it as a "printer" implies some detail to the technique that would be missing from your description. And no, it's not really like making a car.

I know zilch about materials science, but I have to wonder how these structures would hold up as they get large. Will they be like concrete, or like sandstone? or like particle board...

I was responding to the parent post, not to the story. Read it again.