BitTorrent still doesn't seem remotely mainstream still. I know with Opera you can basically treat a torrent almost like any other download. I'm not sure why other browsers never took this approach. I know for the e-l33t around here you all want a separate client, but for those that just want to download the occasional torrent the browser seems like the logical place to support ahhh...."downloading" of a file. I don't know....

I actually used Google health along with members of my family.

Main use is each member has any list of medications and and importantly "Allergies".

I used to have a piece of paper in my wallet with this information, this was much more convenient to access from anywhere I needed. It was good for an emergency, any when in a medical office visit where you have to fill out some form, and honestly I can't remember all this crap at this age anymore.

It really is handy. More convient then scratching things off a piece of paper and updating it. Now I don't know how many people are in the medical industry, but there are lots of sites that are HIPAA Compliant that you can pay for, for this type of service, but Google was free and I could care less if the world knows about my Google logins allergies. The trade off was fine.

This however is just another straw in the "Cloud" coffin.


I think something like Opera Unite is much more interesting (The implementation is far from perfect), but an easy users side "Server" with plug-in blocks that can have 100s of mini servers serving anything--- WhiteBoard server, Web server, Music server, Video Server, Medical server, PostIt Note server, etc....

No, Opera Unite, does not go through Opera.com. It can use a DynDns style url for easy access through opera.com, but you can access it directly through your IP and port #. Again, just the concept I think is more interesting anyway then the cloud. Any easy server, with "plug any anything" server modules.

So what service are these people paying you for? Are they paying for an advertised known limited bandwidth service and then going over their limit? If that is the case then why not cut them off when they reach their cap??

Or are you just offering them "Internet" service. Then when they actually "USE" it, your panties get in a bunch?

I can't help but picture millions and millions of bamboo pedal power bikes from Gilligan's Island, like they used to keep their radio charged.

more 3G cell phones than light bulbs in North Korea, no?

http://www.google.com/search?client=&rls=en&q=north+korea+satellite

You would be able to control them...wait for it...over the Internet! Using IP to tell them to turn on and off, or get bright or dim. If you were out and you forgot you left the lights on at dinner, you could then turn them off from your phone or something I guess by communicating directly with each bulb (light socket).

Not saying it's a good idea or bad. Just saying, that yes, they are indeed talking about hooking your light bulbs to the Internet. Do they need there own IPv6? Could you have one device that hooked to a router then used a different protocol inside the network to run the lights? Sure, sure, but could you give a unique IPv6 to each light socket? I guess. Would you want to?

I called at&t customer service and spoke to a nice representative. After listening to my concerns about broadband caps being imposed on accounts, he explained that the rising cost of fuel was effecting the price of delivering the bits to my home, hence the need for the limits on bandwidth. He asked if he could place me on hold for a moment while he talked to a supervisor, when he came back he said had gotten permission to grandfather my account to keep it as unlimited for as long as the account remained open.

(this is probably only sad/funny for people that have actually ever called at&t. feel free to point out all the discrepancies/truths)

What actual features and improvements could they possibly have added in "8 WEEKS" since the release that they have had time to actually put through an Alpha test, Beta test, and then full release that would warrant a VERSION 5!?!

This seems crazy lame to me. The browser has slowly gotten bloated, now the number? Why?

+1 Gas prices will stay the same, we'll lose 1000s of jobs, and heck we won't have people pumping our gas for us.

There is no way they could guarantee the gas prices would come down. If they did it would be for about 6 months before they jack it up again. Then we'll still be paying high prices and doing the gas stations work for them to boot!

There are gas stations just as you describe in Oregon. Card lock fuel stations we call them. You get a membership card (basically like a credit card) and you can drive up and pump your own gas. There is no one that works at them at all usually and they're usually near a Wal-Mart.

Thing is the gas isn't any cheaper. That's why people in Oregon vote down the self serve gas initiatives over and over. Because we know we will lose thousands of jobs and the gas prices will just stay the same. Basically moving money from working Oregonians to the pockets of oil execs.