Note to self, never post while waiting on the code you're debugging to get to the bit you're working on. I read that as C2O, not 2CO, thus resulting in an oxygen atom going missing....

A *lot* of heat, if you're converting an entire oxygen atom to energy....

Yes, but the Klingons have photon torpedoes.

So, do you have an excuse for having 'gay' and 'lesbian' on the 'concern words' list?

Oh, it certainly wouldn't have been the *only* reason they bought it -- but it could have been a serious consideration when deciding whether it was worth it.

You know, your post made me wonder if that's perhaps part of the reason they made the purchase.

Google support sucks, because Google doesn't _have_ a support organization -- and they don't know how to build one, either; it's not something that lends itself to the sort of algorithmical scaling that's their strength.

MMI, on the other hand, presumably has a support organization that Google can leverage to build a support organization for their other products that need them. They might consider that valuable.

4. Realize this is exactly what happened to Knuth.
        4.1 Take consolation in the fact that at least it's just a thesis, not the next volume of TAOCP.

Prostitute yourself. Or sell drugs. Either is less morally objectionable.

That sounds about right, for the first week or so, if you only have 10 tabs open. Try 25-30 tabs, for a month, and it's much larger, especially if you've visted a few poorly-designed webpages. (Though to be fair, I find that poorly designed webpages have obvious markers, like one I recently timed at seventeen seconds(!) before I could scroll down... and if I leave it open in a tab, eventually crashes the browser (although that takes a couple of days)).

I think you mean 'OpenID allows you to train users to be vulnerable to phishing attacks'. 'Never type your password into a page unless you went directly to the site' is good advice; 'Never type your password into a page unless you went directly to the site or the site that sent you there claims to be using OpenID' is not.

How is 75.7 65.9% _lower_ than 83.9? Or are they saying that total email traffic has dropped by ~60% over the last year, and that 75.7% of current email traffic is only 28.7% of the volume in January 2010?

Or is the lack of caffiene causing my ALU to malfunction?

Hmm. Seems to me their biggest problem is that they allowed clients with a known bug to become supernodes; if 50% of the network had upgraded, they should only have been creating supernodes from the upgraded clients.

And in hindsight (I don't know that they should be blamed for not considering this before), the number of supernodes should probably be ~100-150% more than needed to service expected load. That way, if a third of them die, they _still_ have more than needed to handle the expected load. (And thus, hopefully, more than needed to handle the excessive load without causing them to shut down).

Maybe you haven't, but I have. Well, LPG, but I'm not aware of any reason it wouldn't work with CNG. I remember the propane tank in the back of my dad's truck when I was younger, and the knob under the dash to switch from gasoline to LPG....

And this solves the keylogger problem how?

It doesn't. You still have to authenticate at some point; at most, it reduces the opportunities for a keylogger to catch the password (if you only have to type it in every couple of weeks).

In exchange, it provides phishers with a dream environment. The only way to be certain you're actually connected to your authentication provider is to use SSL and make sure that you see the lock -- and if your security depends on Joe Random User doing that, you've already lost.

Shalon Wood

Perhaps that's why he specified 'very slow' adsl? At my previous house, Speakeasy and Verizon could provide decent speeds (3.0/768), but there were several providers which only provided ~768K/128K ADSL.

At my current house, I have the option of AT&T, or... well, nothing, really. I guess I could get 3G service, but that's not exactly a competitor to DSL, based on my experiences at my father-in-laws.

Mind you, I'm only ~1/2 mile out from Clear's 4G service area, so I *might* be able to get decent speeds out of that. One more utter screwup from AT&T and I might find out.

What really ticks me off is that I can stand in my daughter's bedroom and *see* the town where Verizon piloted FIOS years ago. But they won't compete with AT&T and offer it here.