My daughter, now 10, has had a gmail account for a few years which she uses to correspond to friends and family. About 6 months ago she got locked out of her account because she started creating a Google+ profile (it prompted her to do it), and put in her real birthday. I didn't want her to lose all her correspondence, so went through the painful process of having the account put under my name (and having to verify my birth date). Google's done a lot of things I don't like, but their services tend to be better than the alternatives.

Oh really? Can I get her name and phone number?

Sears catalogue, biatch!

It is on my network!

Yahoo PlaceFinder does address tokenization down to the subdwelling (floor/unit level) that I haven't found in any other service.

It depends what you mean "real evidence" and "significant scale". I grew up partially in the country and I've seen first hand things that I would rather not have, but no, I haven't performed any in-depth studies on the matter.

Here's the thought process: "since this milk will be pasteurized, it's ok if I include milk from this sick cow over here". Are you suggesting that this train of thought isn't widespread? Beyond this particular application?

Here's an interesting article concerning bovine TB: http://www.lung.ca/tb/abouttb/animal/

Heat pasteurization of milk, which means heating the milk to a certain temperature for a prescribed length of time, kills the TB bacteria found in the milk and makes it safe for humans to drink.

Here's a somewhat longer article that to me backs up the idea: http://www.york.ca/Departments/Health+Services/Raw+Milk.htm

The pasteurization of milk was implemented specifically to destroy common pathogens found in raw milk and, secondarily, to give milk a longer shelf life by reducing the number of spoilage-causing organisms. Even under the strictest conditions, cows naturally carry certain disease-causing bacteria which may be passed to the milk that they produce, including Salmonella, Campylobacter, Listeria, Tuberculosis and E.coli 0157:H7.

I'm quite comfortable with the logic.

Pasteurization is the process that allows farmers to subject their milk producing cattle to the poor conditions that produce poor milk - they feel they can get away with things that they wouldn't be able to without it, like mastitis, tuberculosis, feces contamination, etc.

You take your wives to government controlled hospitals to give birth? You're part of the problem...

I like the part where you left out what they were responding to.

The part where it was suggested to fine companies that allow bad code, which would be a motivation for the boss/client to allow the developers to slow down and write less code, more carefully.

Leaving that out makes your argument much stronger.

Mute?

What, no mention of metal-halide lamps? Not a very comprehensive article...

Oxemondo is right