You described exactly what college in Canada is (vs universities)... and in effect it's getting the employees to pay for their own training.

I've been through both, neither have done anything for me in the job market.

They do use it for anti-adblock scripts

AdBlock can't block inline scripts, combine that with simple obfuscation and there'd be no way to tell the ads from the images until they're already on your system. That's no different than now with cache but there are a couple things that can happen with local store that can't happen with cache. 1) Typing is meaningless - you can store the data as one type and read it out as another. 2) Just because you download it from X url doesn't mean you have to store it with the same name or even in a single piece. You'd have to be able to correlate the ID system specific to a given site or the piece(s) to the URL which maybe possible for a human to do but not via automation making AdBlock more time consuming and less valuable.

Also, I visit 1,000 websites in a week, if each one of them uses localStorage to the maximum that's 5gb - but when I visit a site that's not just one domain I'm hitting on Slashdot right now, even with AdBlock, I'm hitting 10 domains. There's my 50gb in 1 week... sure not every site will use localStorage, not every site will use it to the max but it can burn through memory like crazy. Cache is a set and forget, I really don't want to manage that crap for local store

Based on the URL - now such ads could be loaded into a variable and committed via the localStorage object. Once on your system they could be loaded without a URL.

I don't think it is open and shut... perhaps for illegal search but they detained him legally, I believe, and released him without charge. The question is whether they had grounds to detain him. He can claim parody but there's not much indication of that. He used actual pictures of the man, made slanderous statements, and may have made claims to be the real mayor (not sure on this as I've not read the tweets). Very little of it seems parody-like from what I've read. I'll bet there will be a counter suit for slander if the statute of limitations hasn't run out.

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1) No Java on my system, though I do use flash but only with flashblock
2) Zero - adblock takes care of that
3) I was thinking lemon meringue ;)

That's only if you subscribe to Kastings theory. I personally do not as we already have the solution to that problem - it's causing problems for us right now ;) Besides, with the level of technology we have, assuming we can survive as a species, I'm sure we'll be able to compensate for a fairly minor issue as CO2 compensation limit. That means that we have anywhere from 1.7 to 3.2 billion years to figure out how to alter the orbit of earth safely to keep it in the habitable zone as long as possible - or move on to other solar systems.

The paradox has to care if the signals are long gone (not the species). I estimated 132 at any given point in time, assuming a 100% survival rate, though that was based on fairly simple math and would likely be reduced if done properly. My argument was not that they wouldn't spread, it's that it wouldn't matter if they spread because the original RF signals going out from their homeworld would reach us before any ships ever could - unless they somehow licked FLT before RF.

So what if they had a common ancestor? Euarchontoglires is a common ancestor between humans and rats. A species is a species - we know how to differentiate between Homo Sapien DNA and Neanderthal DNA because they are different species. That said, lets use your argument that Genus is what's important - that still leaves Pan or even all Hominidae.

Can you definitively say that the genes responsible for intelligence come from the Homo Sapien line or do they come from the 30% of Homo neanderthalensis? (they did have a larger cranial capacity) Maybe they were the smart ones and we were simply more aggressive/faster breeding/hardier species. Maybe the "genius" gene comes from a tiny bit of Denisova hominin DNA and the reason there aren't more Einsteins is because it's a rarer recessive gene... or it could be none of that. It's not unreasonable to posit that, if left isolated, several of the Homo line could have developed similar intelligence. The point isn't that they did or did not, it's that the possibility exists, given thousands/million years of evolution, for other species to develop similar intelligence - especially in the primate line.

My immediate thought was that it's vulnerable to malware once it's local. While website breaches are an issue, they're generally single point fixes by professional staff (hopefully) who can deal with it. My second thought was great, how much of my storage is going to be taken up by ads? Third thought was I want pie. Fourth was that given a 50mb storage capacity per site would mean I'd need 50gb just for the websites I've visited in the past 7 days.

That's not what I'm saying at all that was just an example of now. If a civilization rose a billion years ago on one of those planets and they put out signals we can observe today for a million years they'd be long gone as signals traveling at the speed of light from the very edge of our galaxy would reach the other side in 100,000 years.

*correction, 1million or 1,000,000... brainfart ;)