Don't ever go by web sites that rank the top 10 providers. Those are all paid placements.
Sometimes good providers turn bad. Forums provide the most up to date info.
I've found this site to provide useful info: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/
Just go with the opinions of those with lots of posts that don't appear to be promoting a single agenda.

I remember reading papers on this during my AI classes in the mid 90's. I don't see how this is impressive nearly 15 years later.

Here's the first link I found on G.P. Music from '98 which actually had the computer rate some of the music.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~bjohanso/papers/gp98/johanson98gpmusic.pdf
If you look at his references, people were doing this in the '80's.

No, I didn't RTFA. I didn't even read the article I linked in this post, so don't get upset if they aren't completely related.

From the PDF (about the bank piracy claim)

If their claims are based on the assumption that 10.249.*.* is a Finama bank owned IP subnet, then they are in trouble.

If you bring Silverlight into the discussion, then it is a 3 way battle.
Adobe Flash vs. Microsoft Silverlight vs. Google backed HTML 5. Here Flash has the dominant position.
This is another front on the OS battle where Web Apps + cloud computing makes it possible for a Browser-based OS do everything most people require of an operating system.

I just use speaker wires to distribute the audio. I use a cheap stereo amp (~$150) and then a 4 pair impedence matching speaker distribution box w/ volume controls for each pair of speakers (~$150). The amp & distribution box are in the stereo rack with the rest of the stereo equipment. I have this amp connected to the 2nd room output of my receiver. I get the 5.1 in the main room + 4 pairs of speakers for other rooms. Wiring is very easy this way. Only benefit of the more expensive systems is that they let you control the volume in the room itself and some repeat the remote IR signals that let you control everything from any room. Still, CD/DVD players that use radio frequency (not IR) remotes can be found for $50 so why bother.
I've posted some more ideas to my site: http://www.diyaudioandvideo.com/

I think it was sponsored by "The Shack" trying to sell more HD radios. Only analog AM was taken out.

Stop using fancy eye catching titles to your articles if they aren't relevant. Stick to the facts & key words.

Among other things, the Google's search algorithm is based on the text within the links to a page, the title of a page, the header text near the top of a page... News sites like to use titles that make you think "What is that article about". That is a horrible way to have Google link to your page with a high page rank.

For example, one of the top articles on CNN.com about Kennedy's death is titled "What if Chappaquiddick happened today?" No search engine will link to that article. The only key word there is Chappaquiddick.

Although Google doesn't directly provide information on how their algorithm works, there are many SEO sites that provide good enough information to tell them that they are doing a horrible job. The low level specifics are meaningless when you can't even get the basics right.

But the yo-yo is a weapon: Inventors of the yo-yo

14 years ago I purchased a .com for my last name. I was able to get myFirstName@myLastName.com as my email address. How cool is that. Then the spam started (before good filtering). I was getting 1-2 GB of spam a day. My email file (BSD Unix) was open for write 24/7. I could never connect with my email client to download any emails. I'm not even sure if good filtering would have done any good. My hosting company couldn't figure out how to close the email account without closing the my user account (same name) that ran the web site. I basically had to telnet in and VI the file several times a week to delete everything to keep under my account's disk space quota. Also realize that domains still cost $70/year and hosting wasn't cheap back then either.
Spam can really cost someone money even if they aren't an ISP. I eventually had to change hosting companies just to kill that email address. To this day I can't use that address. Even with modern email filters, enough crap would get through to make it not worth using. I'm now using a gmail account.

The spammers are violating the law by spamming. Is protecting your right to not receive spam abusing the law? Is there something illegal about being a professional litigant? I thought we called them lawyers.

Torrents updated to now support P2P over HTTP.

I'm reminded of one airplane evacuation study where everyone exited the plane in a nice orderly fashion. Then they repeated the same study but paid the people based on the order they exited the plane. Let's just say the results were different. People climbing over seats pushing each other out of the way... Gov study in PDF

From the article, staying close to food earned the robot points. I think a better experiment would be a food collection algorithm. Pick up a piece of food from a pile of food and then return that food to the nest. Other robots could hang out at your nest and follow you back to the pile of food or see you going to your nest with food and assume that the food pile can be found by going in the exact opposite direction. Deception would involve not taking a direct route back to the food, walking backwards to confuse other robots...
I've done Genetic Programming experiments using collaboration between "robots" in food collection experiments, and it is a very interesting field. You can see some experiments here: http://www.lalena.com/ai/ant/ You can also run the program if you can run .NET 2.0 through your browser..