I disagree. I saw no value with LinkedIn. I don't need to duplicate my real life connections at an online service that can then sell that information or harass my connections with solicitations.

This was the exact moment I dumped LinkedIn... when recruiters started trying to harvest contact info for my former employers out of me. They already do that in the real world. I don't need to get twice as much of their bullshit.

Just to clarify, if a web site is being blocked, then that web site can not send an error page to the client making the request.

The error would come from whichever device is blocking the web site, and it would prevent forwarding of any data packets to the blocked site. The blocked site can't return an error page because it has no way of knowing someone trying to access it was blocked. Whatever device is doing the blocking is the one that can send an error code, if at all.

Returning an html error page would be entirely optional, and I seriously doubt whomever is doing the blocking would give a rat's ass about a fancy custom error page. If they did, it might make for a nice amplifier in a DDoS attack. ;-)

...or better yet, analyze each home page, if it has no links to other pages within the same web site assume it is a parked domain (or spam domain) and ignore it.

You do realize that your statement illustrates exactly what happens when you hit peak production of any limited resource, don't you? The invisible-hand-of-the-free-markets don't spend money on developing new technology to better extract resources if those resource cheap and abundant to get to.

The weakness with this kind of communication is that at some point before the sending of the signals, the meaning of the signals has to be communicated. But interception of that point of communication that reveals relationships and makes later communications easier to detect and decipher.

Help me out here. The Adapteva sales pitch is claiming you get faster time to market by not having to do any FPGA programming (ANSI-C and OpenCL for the multicore coprocessors). The Zynq processor seems to be just for the host OS, which they say can run Ubuntu out of the box and they provide open source development tools for everything else. No mention of Xilinx anywhere that I can see. Am I missing something?

...or maybe it is something else like social media. I've noticed recently that more of my friends post their opinions on new movies and when they pan something, their friends listen and don't bother going to see the film themselves. True, this happened before social media, but now I think these reviews by friends reach more people in a shorter period of time and are much more effective than a review by a paid movie critic.

You mean kind of like this case where a black woman, in the same state as Zimmerman, fires two warning shots in the air when an ex-husband she had a restraining order on because he had a history of violence, gets 20 years in prison and no one was hurt! And to add insult to injury the judge refused to let her use the Stand Your Ground law as her defense!

No indication if "bulk mail" is counted in that 160 billion pieces of mail or if is being recorded too. That's a whole lot of images of mail addressed to "Current Resident."

The music industry is a good example of that. With a single song you have a copyright for the owner of the musical score and a copyright for the owner of the lyrics (not necessarily the creators of the music and lyrics or the same owner for both). If anyone performs the song, you would need to pay a license fee to the owners for 75 years beyond the death of the author in some cases (often the owner had nothing to do with creating the music and none of the licensing fees go to the real artists or their families).

Next, you have a phonogram copyright on recordings of a performance (donated by a circle with a letter P inside it). This is the one that can go on forever. Record companies can release new copies of old music just before the old recording's copyright expires. The license fees to the owner of the song were already paid for the original performance, and since they are just re-releasing the same performance they don't have to pay another license fee. But they can claim a new extension to the phonogram copyright.

So, say you digitize a record whose copyright has expired and give it away for free on the internet. Record companies can muddy the waters enough to claim you just copied one of their re-releases instead of a public domain record. You are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.

On the other hand, record collectors would say that without this behavior, old public domain recordings would be lost forever.

In the early 1980's the BBC made a drama called "Threads" which had occasional narration interrupting the story to explain the science behind the effects of nuclear war. Anyone who thinks nuclear war is winnable, or that we've never had enough nukes to destroy the world should watch it... the entire thing.

There are no lone-wolf heroes or other typical US movie industry bullcrap, just cold, stark, depressing realism. You can watch it for free on YouTube....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg

Not to mention that when peak oil occurs everyone will have no choice but to start looking for other energy sources.