As the saying goes. Why don't we continue to run candidates in parallel to SHA-2 usage and when there are signs that SHA-2 is about to be compromised or obsolete we'll just switch to whatever candidate was the best afterwards. Naturally if SHA-3 is significantly better in speed, security and compression etc then we have already made SHA-2 obsolete and need not wait until it "breaks". My two pence.

Noteworthy: over the next 50 years my anxiety will rise 1-2% about it.

This is a prime example of cognitive dissonance and personal bias. People are biased in their own favor to the point where decisions and even memories will be reconstructed to agree with themselves.
Assuming a person is fooled into thinking a past decision was purely their own; what happens when a person has to explain something he does not remember? he makes it up!

It's sort of a basic "Oh it was my idea so I must be right" and the smarter the person the more elaborate the explanation around it will be.

Personally I believe that it is this sort of situation that should make one question an idea he himself has thought up even "intuition". It's surprising that people assume/are biased that just because a thought occurred to them it must be somehow more correct.

Apples has never been more successful, surely they are doing something right. It may be the case that the next "criticism" waved at apple will be maniacally laughed off.

Sure, IF the did X then Y would happen. Yeah, we're all smarter in retrospect. My take on it is that Knight of the old republic was a single player game, a brilliant one at that. KOTR 2 was a half finished mess, but with fan edits & mods (and the eventual remake now on steam) it can be pretty good at times... Now, following that, what made them think that that success of a single player game will directly translate to an MMORPG? Better yet, how did they think they will manage to get all those users in a saturated market when they are not pack leader in terms of features and gameplay? I for one never wanted this online star wars multiplayer thing. I wanted a KOTR 3 that is as well made as the first one. I wanted THAT game, something tells me I wasn't alone. SWTOR just did not deliver that.

Finally, after years of waiting, I can have the same console, that does the same things in a smaller package. Thank you Sony. thank you for thinking about the user.

*cough* You didn't follow the link, did you. *cough*

It would be far wiser If they just spend all those millions on poverty programs.

Let's just give people an option in their web browsers to filter content. Perhaps a similar option to "do not track" we can have a "stick head in the sand" option?
Perhaps better described as; "If I can't see you you can't see me too"

On a more serious google is a multinational business. As a business it must protect its revenue. A good business knows better than to anger it's customers. When you will anger them anyways, you choose the lesser of two evils. Perfectly understandable on their part.
Besides, the people that really want to see the video will find a way.

About the video...yes the video is intentionally provocative and at the same time it does not preach violence. It makes a mockery of a religion.

I'm not a scholar of Islam but I am told that a Muslim must always try to represent Islam in a positive manner. If anything such an approach would lead one to behave in a manner that was better.

Is this how those people hat are burning flags and embassies want to represent Islam? will this lead people to respect your beliefs?

Just because some people believe in some unicorns does not mean it's special. Does not mean it demands respect. Heck it can be a genuine fact based belief and still would be made fun of.
I believe that humor is the real offense to totalitarian regimes, the real danger to unilateral and undisputed rule.

The irony is that if Nicola Roxon posted this on twitter it would have had to be removed due to trolling. Because really, how do you draw the line between trolling and comments you dislike or anger you and your fat mother?

This one was never to be one of metal-beak's tytos. His gizzard is better than that!

I have to agree that in the case of India; that has serious infrastructure problems, the money would be far better spent on the basics. Once India takes care of most of its' pressing matters and can provide reliable clean water, sanitation, electricity etc to the vast majority of the population, perhaps then they can reach for the stars as a bonus. If you take all the money put into the space program and invest in infrastructure, like the electrical grid/power would the average citizen not be far better off and have a better future? Let's not build towers in the air on foundations quite shaky.

Assuming you're not harming anyone else, live as you see fit. I believe that if by living and learning you happen to ignore religious "law" god will understand it's all a part of growing up. If god does will not understand then he is not god, so why worry about it?

If god was so offended that creationism is not taught, why didn't god write/inspire his holy book/s correctly the first time?

Don't get me wrong, I completely agree creationism must be taught alongside of science, my problem is which version of creationism to teach.
Once we can decide which religion is true and which is false we can finally begin the holy work of teaching the right version of creationism and all that good stuff.

Of course I'd not want to put many different people of different religions in a room to debate this, god might be offended by their consequent behavior.

Come to think about it, if god is so bothered about people believing in him and their eternal souls and all that, why doesn't he just say so? heck Amazon will give him an exclusive on the Kindle Fire HD. I can see it now "Kindle Sin Hellfire - GOD EDITION!"