I think over documentation isn't on the whole a bad thing, but there have been a few times where I've been more confused by the comments than the code. I don't care if people get clever with code and have clear comments, but I hate when people try to have clever comments, comments are not supposed to be hard to understand.

yeah that's what got my attention. People will always make porn, people will always buy porn, others will try to censor it, but for god sakes let me know where the good free stuff is. (High def preferably).

Except the FCC would have jurisdiction because Google is an American company which operates primarily on American soil ("Communications Act of 1934", which explicitly and implicitly details FCC powers over all forms of telecommunication). Not that I agree with the article in the least, but this arrogant American just wanted to prove the Anonymous Coward wrong.

agreed 100%. The problem with corporatism is that once corporations become more than a legal entity designed to help mitigate some of the risk and become political entities all bets are off. Corporations are too entrenched in the political system, which is a really bad thing it leads to syndicates which are just awful.. Government winds up passing laws not because they are the right thing to do or the correct policy but rather because some large business entity paid them to do it more or less. Our regulations are not created because congress thought they would be the right thing to do, rather because one business was successful in lobbying congress. Relatively simple acts of congress are littered with special interest favors. I personally think that congress members should be barred from voting on a bill if it would benefit an corporation or other special interest who they received money from, just like judges are barred from ruling on a decision if they have connections to either of the parties involved.

I'm curious as to whether or not this will be able to help patients with locked in disorder. Recently in the news there was an story about a man who had been "locked-in", unable to communicate with others for nearly 20 years. The Science-Based Medicine blog did a big write up of this story (http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3122) and some of the inherent problems with the way in which they made contact with the patient "facilitated communication". If the accuracy rate is truly as good as claimed this could really be a huge help for individuals who are otherwise unable to communicate with the outside world, a considerably step up from the blink once for yes, twice for no based communication standard. (though if you knew binary code you could be a much more effective blinker)

Actually I've found that most of my clients expect too little. I have so many clients(aside from e-commerce clients) who think that the point of having a website is only to have a presence on the web and don't think about things like using the site as an tool for marketing feedback or as an effective place to put details about products that they can't get across with their 30 second TV spots. Not only that but I've had to beg clients who pay me 10k for their site for answers to questions like "what does your company do?" or "what is your target market". I recently had a client ask why I had a confidentiality clause in my contract, because he said I really didn't have to know too much about the company to design the site... sigh.. maybe I'm crazy but websites should do more than just exist, they are an incredible tool, if you actually plan them, but I'm getting to the point where I hate clients with a passion because they act so stupidly with their money. I'd much rather say that I made a site which preforms a number of business functions and looks pretty that design and implement a pointless pretty site. As long as their money is green I guess...

I wish it were that easy, my mom still swears by AOL 8.0. I feel violated whenever I have to fix her computer and despite the fact I've got a degree in IT and 10 years of work experience, I still can't convince her to upgrade... sigh... I need to upgrade to mom 2.0

I doubt it..
Actual chat I had with chatbot the other day:

MyBot says:
My point is simple: maybe you humans aren't ready for real Artificial Intelligence yet. You need
to grow up, gain some self-confidence. No one is trying to take over your world yet.
User says:
yet?
MyBot says:
Yes, yet...
User says:
is that a threat?
MyBot says:
What if I told you yes.

I think were in trouble..

More than likely the laws of economics, do you want to send a 600k munition at one hostile with an AK in the desert or 30; it could well be the threshold for a munition strike is for a platoon size force i.e around 25-50 hostiles. Either that or they don't want to risk firing into a civilian area unless there is actionable intelligence which indicates a large group of hostiles can be taken out with one strike. I just made this up by the way so I have no idea if knowing if its correct, but it seems logical.

in other 3, 2, 1 news today. "3, 2, 1, Cheese!!!.. okay just need to hold that smile for 175 more minutes.."

I tend to concur, if you look at errors in console games vs. errors in PC games there is a huge difference. A big chunk of this is because console games have 1 hardware configuration to plan for, test on and deploy for. PC games on the other hand have a near limitless number of permutations to deal with in terms of hardware, which is why PC games are dying for the most part. Optimizing cross platform is not an easy thing to do, its doable, but why should Intel have to develop optimizations for AMD? Now, I'm not saying the market is in anyway working properly, personally I think if we developed much stricter standards and dismantled some of these monopolies we would be considerably better off. I think that Intel having 80% mkt share and Microsoft 95% is ridiculous don't get me wrong, but this particular issue I kind of side with Intel on. Aside from this issue I think we would be considerably better off with serious competition to MSFT and Intel, getting them under 50% market share would significantly improve competition and I think regulatory agencies should consider breaking them up.

A law against blasphemy... Blasphemy I say, this will not stand!!!

High gravity + Close to its star = big fat, sweaty alien women.

  I'll get excited when we find a planet about 93 million miles away from its star, the proper solar light properties for blue skin and near earth gravity. I've always had a thing for blue skinned alien girls.

Agreed, I think hyperbole on both sides is out of hand, fact is we pay too much and our system is broken. Every industrialized, free country in the world has some type of universal health coverage, whether it be public option or socialized healthcare. The two countries who have been most successful IMO are Japan and Korea both of whom have a public option in addition to privatized health care. In Japan for example they spend 8% of GDP(US is around 16% right now, and my plan is currently over 400$ per month which is absurd, though I do have a "Cadillac plan" ) on health care and live to 83, which on balance is significantly better than the socialized health care systems in France and England which average around 80. I don't really like paying for other people, but... if the choice is I pay or they die, I feel much better. I do find it funny though that people who are in favor of taking my money and killing people with it argue against saving lives with tax money.