Good point. Let's start with just New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Philadelphia, Miami, Baltimore, and DC.

Google doesn't delete stuff as a result of a DMCA notice. They block access to it. Send a DMCA counterclaim, and Google will put your blog back up in a week or less.

How the hell is this insightful?

How about municipalities, just to start things off? Then there are the insurance companies. Then construction companies. Of course, there is the military as well. Farmers. Etc., etc. etc. .

A lot of people and money can be saved with knowledge about the climate and future climate. However, at this time getting specific information about a particular area can be difficult, if not impossible. The whole point of this service is to aggregate the information so that it can be available for access for people to make better decisions and better preparations.

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Sure it can be an anonymous robot. Some random web spider crawls around, and when it gets a hit, it kicks it over to the automated DMCA generator, which has a digital signature of whoever it needs. At no point is the robot identified. Hell, it might not even belong to the complaintant. They might be contracting it out.

So the hardware is compatible with more software. For example, hard drives still report some number of cylinders, heads and sectors to the BIOS and the OS, but hard drives have been using ZBR for 20 years now (IIRC) so the sector number is meaningless.

But, as it is now, if my old system needs a new hard drive, I do not need to find an old drive to be compatible with my system (as long as it is IDE or SCSI, I don't know of any adapter from the newer interfaces to ESDI or ST-506, but they probably exist).

They could have made it a jumper setting set to 512B by default though. I assume the hard drive is faster using 4KB sectors instead of true 512B sectors, they could have made an option to reformat the drive to 512B (or maybe it's not possible with modern drives, I have an old 4GB SCSI drive that can be reformatted to a different sector size (I never tried it though)).

Microsoft has been paying a quarterly dividend since 2004. Also, even if they did not pay a dividend, companies sometimes buy their own stock to un-dilute the shares. The shareholders then have stock that is worth more money. http://www.google.com/finance?q=microsoft Click the "5years" button.

Did IE really lock that many people into Windows? ActiveX was only really used in the wild for Intranet deployments, and in that case IE is used more as a distributed application client than a web browser, so the same lock-in could have been achieved by bundling an unlimited client license to IE with the BackOffice or NT Server.

Ask that the people in South Korea. It's basically impossible to do online banking without IE. http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/09/29/987-internet-explorer-in-south-korea/

That is more a distro problem then, I run a full stable Gentoo system and I see less then a 5% over head difference. Not saying your wrong because you posted output here but it can have a lot to do on how you have optimized your disk access and setup the kernel to interface the disks. Even the file system in use.

But then again that's just what I see on my system. Possibly running a different configuration would yield different results.

It's kinda like how Techcrunch keeps posting BS articles about Last.fm, and then censoring the comments about it. Top journalism there.

If Google handles all the keys for Gmail, how is that any different than something much simpler, say, something like DomainKeys/DKIM?

They also don't discriminate against students watching the protest from their dorm hallway who aren't involved in it in any away.

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

Now, I know it isn't "laws" per se, but it still applies. Censorship has to stop when it starts, not when it finally effects you.

Don't forget that there's also laws on the books outlawing unauthorized uploads of copyrighted materials, illicit consumption of controlled substances, and not paying the man his cut. These too are only enforced when it benefits the politicians in charge at the time. In the last 10 years, I've lived in 4 different apartments, and have been asked for my SSN once. I said no, the landlord effectively said ok, and I still got the place.

Different guy, but I did some research. Closest is this:
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/ssn/ssnchron.html
"To make, under federal law, unlawful disclosure or compelling disclosure of the SSN of any person a felony, punishable by fine and/or imprisonment."