This.

We already have automated buses, single cars, and long-haul trucks that arrive automatically, on-demand. Every large city already has a network of them.
It just so happens there's a person in the driver's seat today. In the near future there may be a computer in that seat. Nothing else changes, from a transportation angle.

If you're stranded on a desert island, with no ability to reach another island- you are very much alone. Doesn't matter how many billions of other people there are out there, if you have no chance at reaching or talking to them.

If this math holds up, the next interstellar island is further away than we thought... and we are likely going to be a very lonely species.

No but you might want those contracts from NASA to subsidize the launch fees. Space isn't a game for the poor.

That would be our mutual friend, Albert.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A... (ctrl-F, dice, [enter])

Amazon demographic of African Americans: 15%
USA 2010 census African Americans: 12.6%

There we have it, proof of racism within Amazon. I eagerly await Jessie Jackson's protests of non-black victims.

Ah, but it is spread through casual contact. Someone cough near you? Droplets are evil little creatures. Handshake with someone who coughed on their hands?

If you've not had the flu ever in your life, then you can feel safe. Ebola spreads at least as easily as the flu, likely much easier.

What I really worry about is the non-human vectors. Imagine one dog (1) in the park, finding the vomit of an infected human (2), and this becoming a new, very hard to track infection source. "Our family isn't feeling so good - can you watch Fido while we go to the doctor?" Repeat.

(1) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
(2) - http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...

Exactly. They're refusing Danegeld, and sticking it back to the Dane.

Good on 'em.

Wait - why would Facebook have her address? I've never given that info to Facebook.

The problem here is that an unreliable, unsecure, unverified account for a person claiming to be her is being used for official legal notice. It's even worse than E-Mail, and I'm not aware of that being a valid means to receive legal notices.

This is all a very bad idea.

Slashdot is a bad example. Back when it was owned in Ann Arbor, I kept ads on - to reward the site for giving me value.

Since the buyout by Dice, I now check the box to hide the ads. They are a large for profit company, they can live just fine without my ad hits. Oh, and most of the ads I do see on this site are for other Dice sites. I don't want to reward bad behavior.

This.

If ad ads were 100% gone today, someone would re-invent them by tomorrow night.

Advertising isn't a way for users to subsidize a web site - it's a method for companies to advertise their products & services. If it became illegal to charge or pay money for ads, they would still exist. Companies want to grow sales, and one way to do that is advertising.

Good comment, however when I got to this line:

...my mind was suddenly speaking with a helium voice. Don't you know that helium is rapidly becoming very expensive?!?

I read the very short article, so you don't have to.

Windows is the bulk, at 91.68%, of that Windows 7 is 51.22%

Mac is 6.64%

And overall, Linux is 1.68%

What percentage of the population could afford that back in the 70? or 80's?

And now we get to the heart of the problem. Would the local police or resident busy-bodies (with 911 on speed dial) let you get away with that today? Everyone needs a proper seat with seat-belt and side air bags. Rolling around lose in the back of a station wagon was good enough for us X'ers, but it's now considered reckless and dangerous today. And that is why minivans are essential to anyone with more than 2 kids.

Wow, giving the company 7 weeks before Network Solutions took the site down? That's going way above & beyond. The average luser like me would be taken down the day of expiration.
 

Can I borrow your phone for a second? I need to E-Mail myself some copy & pasted data real quick...

A single point of failure is a single point of failure, be it desktop, phone, or cloud. I trust no one to hold onto my passwords for me.