The article is asking which other discoveries are worth considering, and you both are turning the discussion into a wish-list of what we would like to be discovered.

All very worthy, since I agree all medical conditions should be treated, but completely irrelevant to the original article (so the Moderators should let their knees jerk freely).

It's written in such a way no one will ever be prosecuted.

That's what they all say... until someone is arrested for it.

Wait we have to establish a grading scale first. Most points for the biggest Blasphemy in the least amount of words. How does this do?

Jesus was Buddhist.

Expecting 2010 to be better is not from a sense of optimism; rather a reflection of how much 2009 truly sucked.

Indeed. 2009 for me in a nutshell:
*grandmother on my father's side passed away
*grandmother on mother's side diagnosed with Alzheimer's
*fiancée has major manic episode and calls me from another state wanting me to pick her up
*fiancée and I call off wedding and break up
*Lost my job
*diagnosed with Keratoconus
Frak 2009.
It would be trivial for 2010 to be a better year than that.

It is my hope that my ancestors fought for freedom, and conceded that democracy was the best way to compromise it.

Sounds to me like Google is doing a little civil disobedience here. The publishers and libraries had now a good 10 years to get their act together and put a decent online offering up, but what have they done? Pretty much nothing. So Google being a little ignorant to the law and doing what they think is the right thing to do, really sounds like a good thing, as it might one way or the other, lead finally to a situation where the Internet is no longer ignored by the other side.

I'm anti-war, but pro-military. Hell, I'm a veteran. I agree with Teddy Roosevelt's assessment that one should "walk softly and carry a big stick". When the Afganistan's Taliban's Bin Laden attacked us, we were right to go to war, although they did two things wrong. The Congress should have actually declared war and they should have just gone in and laid the place to waste and left.

Iraq, otoh, was and is an unnessary, wasteful clusterfuck. Iraq posed no threat whatever to us. There was no real reason at all for us to attack Iraq. That million dollars spent every two minutes fighting that war is a complete waste, and a worse waste is the lives of the servicepeople who died in that godforsaken desert.

Citation: CAN-SPAM Act

> MS killed Netscape because MS gained the edge in development of HTML and
> JavaScript standards.

No. IE beat Netscape because it was free and came with the OS. No other reason.

Furthermore, if they did fight China on this one, I think it would be naive to think that they did it for any other reason that as a calculated risk to gain marketshare and ultimately profit.

The rumors that all their employees in China were going to be arrested if they didn't comply may just shine a different light on the whole thing...

Problem with this, like with many other touch screen like devices, is that you don't get physical feedback when you're clicking or scrolling or doing anything. There's a reason why you actually need to push the mouse button a little bit so it clicks. Not much, but it actually feels like a click. Keyboard presses need to be the same way too - you need the feedback.

Another example is the scroll in mouses. My Logitech MX Revolution mouse has both seamless and non-seamless mode that you can activate for different apps. Seamless mode was activated by default for IE and I had to take it off, because mouse scroll also needs to "tick" and feel back when you're scrolling. The Apple video shows that you can scroll faster by moving your finger rapidly - guess what, you can do that with a normal scroll too, just by rapidly firing the scroller to either direction (the logitech software actually releases the tick for a bit so it works even better)

Other thing to consider is how quickly the touch area gets dirty and less functional. I sometimes like to eat a great three story cheese bacon hamburger filled with majonese, chipotle ketchup and delicious cheese with deep fried french fries, topped with a cold beer and chocolate ice cream with strawberries and chocolate dipping. Lets face it, the touch area is going to get dirty. Will it function the same way after that and can you clean it as easily?