You do realize that nobody reads post titles, right?

I'm still utterly baffled by what's going on here, and neither article seems to answer my questions. Since, in most cases, Google News only displays a snippet of the article (almost certainly fair use?) and then requires readers to click through to the actual web site of the news source to read the rest of the article, what is preventing those sites from implementing whatever access control scheme they feel like? (This should have nothing at all to do with robots.txt or ACAP which is about whether the *Google spider* can see the content, not whether users linking from Google can.) Am I missing some technical point?

TFA says
"Previously, each click from a user would be treated as free," Google senior business product manager Josh Cohen said in a blog post.

So it sounds like (maybe?) the news sites have a policy that says that clickthroughs from Google don't have to be routed through their access control. Why? Is this something Google requires newspapers to do in order to do display links to them on Google News? This seems to be the best theory, but I didn't see anything anywhere that actually said that.

So, in sum, is this a technical or a social/legal/contractual issue, and what, exactly, is it that is preventing these news sites from using their normal access control?

The Science Museum has a working Difference Engine (although it's just on display) and half of Babbage's brain.

Papyrus lasts thousands of years in the right conditions, and it has a slightly higher data density than carved stone.

On the other hand, if you are actually implementing strings for a programming language these days, I hope you are not implementing them as arrays of characters, but as a rope or some other type of advanced data structure that allows fast concatenation.

http://wikipediavspredator.com/

I saw a very interesting talk by Vint Cerf a while back. Apparently he is working with NASA to write the protocols that will be used for the interplanetary Internet.

That may be the most inexplicable use of mod points I have ever seen.

(The parent is currently modded -1, redundant.)

Yeah, just like all those wild revolutions in Y2k.

Oh, wait...

Given that we have a TWO PERCENT failure rate on shuttle launches at this point, those fears aren't entirely ungrounded, at least when it comes to the American space program.

This is why you should have a separate resume (which, as word, means "summary", i.e., of your CV) and CV. Your CV can be multiple pages or one one long HTML page or whatever. Make your resume one page and put a URL for where your CV can be found on the web.

Awesome, thanks!

Mostly to satisfy my own curiosity, is this written up somewhere outside of the academic literature? Or, if not, any pointers to a good place to start reading?

Nah, VMs are definitely penetrating the public consciousness. I know plenty of non-tech savvy people who have Macs and use VMWare to boot Windows.