Not in the USA. I haven't used a Java plugin for a long time, certainly not for banking. The only time I'm confronted with plugins at all is when I try to watch videos of... um... of cats, yeah definitely cats.

If it did, it would say so.

Diaspora failed, man, give it up.

The Constitution gives you the right to keep and bear arms.

It doesn't give you the right to acquire or manufacture arms.

A strict constructionist would have to concede that it would be Constitutional to bar anyone from ever acquiring any new weapon, and after a century or so all gun possession would be illegal.

See, textualism goes both ways. This is why I'm not a strict constructionist or textualist.

I like this feature and I use it. It has saved me from many typos and a few reconsidered emails. But I think it's a poorly implemented feature. It should be a side-effect feature of a generally implemented send-later feature. The default timeout would be 20 seconds, and you could choose from a popup any longer wait period or a specific time. I would love that feature: send my brother's happy-birthday email tomorrow morning, for instance.

"People would walk towards [one woman] with concealed electronics, in an effort to provoke a reaction."

And there was no reaction. Therefore the claimed illness is total bullshit.

Live in a cave if you want, believe bullshit if you want, make nutty claims if you want -- and meanwhile, the rest of us will laugh at you and make fun of your stupidity by doing things like standing near you with concealed electronics. That's freedom.

Next question, please. This one is answered.

Yeah the name of the feature matters. If you call it "keyword search" but it's actually a punch in the face, then I decline your suggestion that people should be surprised when they are punched in the face, because they didn't RTFM, as if there is an M to RTF.

If it's not verbatim search, then don't call it Verbatim Search. Call it We Show You What We Guess You Want Search. And that's not even my complaint -- my complaint is that verbatim search is impossible on all search engines I'm aware of today, but was easily available fifteen years ago. The world has lost a useful internet feature and I think that's too bad.

American Indians for the most part don't exist. There is a tiny smattering of people who have some cultural connection but the culture was mostly wiped out by genocide. So we can't really get much of an opinion from American Indians.

I don't see how that applies, though. The answer is that America has deep inequality in pretty much all regards, like all societies in all times, but we have this special thing that most other curiously haven't adopted -- we phrase it as "equality under the law". As I've said before, it's like the lowest possible bar for equality measures, which is why I'm surprised other nations haven't adopted it.

I've never been to NZ but I've heard it's a paradise in lots of ways. Do they put the Queen on their money? Do they ever say God Save The Queen at events? Do any NZers have titles of nobility or other in-born presumptions of legal superiority? If so, then my criticism applies to NZ; if not, it doesn't.

My layperson's understanding is that the 'unconscionable' thing is practically impossible to get a positive ruling on, and has never been done for EULAs. If you are a 'real lawyer' then you can trump my lay understanding by citing a court case. Otherwise I think GP is right unfortunately.

India is a good example. I might also point to France. I don't know much about Nigeria except for the murders.

The reason I insist on racial/cultural heterogeneity is to stem the people who say "Norway is super peaceful, why can't America be like Norway?" The Answer is that Norwegian Americans are also very peaceful and prosperous in America. No surprise. Meanwhile, people who come from places with traditions of violence and desperation skew desperate and violent in America. No surprise.

And the reason I insist on no royalty is because subjects have no idea what it means to be a citizen. A person who can't even wrap their head around the notion of legal equality can't possibly understand American politics.

Google should make the best product they know how and when they fuck up they should listen to their users. This Slashdot article is next in a loooooong line of forums complaining about the same thing.

The billions of other users don't know or care how it works, or how accurate the results are. They were happy with 1998 Google and they'll be happy if we get back to 1998 Google.

"Search for what I typed in the fucking box and keep your suggestions and corrections to yourself."

I say suggestions yes, corrections no. I actually quite like the "Did you mean...?" suggestions because yes, frequently I fat-finger a search term. That's fine. But even more frequently I'm searching for something like IContext, and I really need IContext, not Context.

If "understanding context" makes Google's search results suck then Google should stop "understanding context". And it does, so they should.

Just give me results containing all of my search terms exactly as I enter them. That is all the context Google needs to understand.

I'm pretty sure startpage is just a front to Google results. So you get the benefit of no tracking but the results should be identical -- identically bad, according to complainers like me on this forum.

I have previously suggested that they introduce http://classic.google.com./

I want 1998 Google. It worked. It's the only search engine that has ever worked -- before or since, including modern Google.

EVERY TERM EXACTLY AS WRITTEN, it's so blindingly obvious that I can't believe that the engineers at Google can't understand it.