Given how much money he has, and how everytime a story about Diaspora comes up someone mentions the fact that Zuckerberg gave them money, I'd say it was a very wise investment PR wise.

And with an amazing coverage-to-spent-money ratio.

Small thing: many people don't even type in the domain name in full, with the TLD.

A *lot* of people type in “facebook” to go to facebook.com, or even “facebook login” to login to facebook, completely unaware of the magic that happens behind the scenes.
Do you remember what happened on that ReadWriteWeb article about Facebook's new login page ? The comments are unbelievable and yet. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php

Also, this is why Google knows that bit more about what sites people visit. Everytime people don't enter the TLD, their browser does a swift “I'm feeling lucky” search and takes them to the result.

So the .com vs .co problem might not be that much of an issue these days.

Basically, you want ReactOS? And you want it to work.

If the stuff in space is from the seventies, this means it's not running Free and Open Source Software ! Proprietary alert, space stuff doesn't run Linux!

your-own-domain.tld ? That's what I like about having my own domain, being able to direct it to whatever I want, and not depending on some other entity that can change the services I'm using whenever they want to. That and tinkering with all the possibilities a domain + a box plugged to the Internet offers, obviously. :)

If you want to say fuck, say fuck.
Bowlderisation isn't exactly a healthy value.

Aren't those miracles?

This is /. aren't you supposed to say "What a surprise, .NET has flaws!" ?

Sometimes I wonder why it isn't possible to declare/register a PGP public key as official, and use that to authentify oneself. I mean, with that even email can be secure. Oh well, too complicated for the "general public" I guess, I mean keeping a spare of your (digital) key? That's far too complicated!

Similar thing happened to me.

I was reading through an animal rights related newsletter, and Gmail's contextual advertisement located at the top of the screen thought it matched pretty well this offer for a second hand pig slaughter machine.
Up to 45 pigs an hour!

Nice.

i don't own a car, i walk to work. i walk everywhere

city dwellers weigh on average 15 pounds less than suburbanites. because the puss bag fat fucking suv gas guzzling assholes probably get in the car to get their mail at the end of the driveway

this is in fact the future: dense urban living

suburban sprawl, disconnected gridlocked lifestyles and destruction of our forests for plastic mcmansions is the past. already, in the last real estate crash, it has been established that those houses nearest train stations lost less value than those out in car dependent sprawl

so you stfu, ignorant jackass: there is a reckoning coming. as the economy recovers, gas prices will begin a creep up that will never go down

plan now, or suffer later, your choice

Especially since 4 months after 9/11 scanners at Boston's Logan airport, let me take 6" barbers shears in my ditty bag onto a flight to Norfolk.

They didn't really appreciate the 4" kbar mule, though. Or the swiss army knife.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1597631/no-firefox-windows-mobile

"Parmenter ['head honcho of mobile software development' for Firefox] laments at the lack of a native development kit that's available to developers, meaning that they are unable to create native applications for Windows Phone 7 Series."

True Microsoft doesn't "limit" you to a specific language, but in reality does it really matter if no matter what language you program in, it's just a front end for IL? I'd much rather be able to develop truly native apps

Sentencing everyone to be incarcerated until they're "corrected" would lead to a very arbitrary justice system which would be very easy to abuse. How do you determine if someone *will* commit a crime after they're released? Today, we only attempt to do that with people who are so seriously disturbed they appear unable to control themselves.

It would also mean the punishment might be completely out of proportion to the crime - someone who was unable to stop herself from, say, getting into bar fights every now and then could be held in prison for decades, while a one-time murderer may get away with a month.

It also ignores the deterring effect of punishment. Someone who committed a crime and successfully argued to the court that the circumstances were so unusual, it was unlikely he would be driven to do it again, and therefore posed no danger to society, would have to be released without any punishment. This would effectively give a free pass to anyone who was tempted to commit a one-time crime.

The principle of the matter is that it is a very unbalanced extradition treaty the UK has with the US. A fast track extradition policy that allows the USA to force the extradition of a British citizen without offering any evidence and also removes a British citizens right to even appeal this decision. This by the way is strictly a one way process as all US citizens are fully protected by the US constitution. Of course they even get to choose what state to extradite them to where they can take advantage of varying laws and sentencing. I believe this was an errata added in 2006 but don't quote me on that.

This is what happened to the NatWest Three, a UK based offence against a UK bank. Of course they were extradited to Texas where it was felt they could hit them with more offences for longer sentencing and with an easier conviction (of course there is a huge tinfoil hat conspiracy regarding using these as fall guys in a forced plea bargain to cover up Bush administration involvement in the Enron scandal but that is an argument for another day)

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/ukpga_20030041_en_1