Technically, maybe. Another route to change this is to have regulation prohibiting this (on a large scale like US or EU).

To aid in this, one has to make it more visible to the end user. Then maybe they will start requiring more strict rules.

There could be a P2P-like-sharing of cookies from those sources. Got to watch out for special cases (login stuff or after viewing private content). You could swap out cookies after every page visit (given certain pages).

I am still wondering why my browser would care for cookies from those domains when being on a whole different site. Or limits their lifetimes better (sure google maps can set a cookie when visiting a website, but after closing the page it should be gone).

See my other comment

s/teach to/learn to/

Scientists are not free to follow hunches if they are, in effect, not payed for. Hunches are a hobby in the NL. The effect is that mindnumb people do science here. I was good at hunches.

Your argument about reliability has a place. One should know how reliable it is. But your conclusion that non-proven stuff has no place in the scientific process is invalid imo. Because the scientific process is limited to journals.

Suppose our science is that 'we want to find a place to shop'. Some scientist went out some day and saw on the outskirts of a city, a shop. He now reports on that in a journal but it get rejected. Because he did not prove you could buy something there. For real people it would be silly. But for scientists with their peer reviewed journals it is fine; I would call this both scientific and requiring more research.

I will admit that it would not be easy to do, practically, with the scientific method (using journals) we are using today.

BTW There is another very good reason why creativity is not very high in science: Because it is not taught. The first 4 years of your education you only teach to reproduce (and get up to current knowledge). In that you follow what others have discovered in the past. But you are not taught how to discover the next book. Creativity is very different from learning standard stuff and can be taught (but it also needs time to get better).

I disagree.

Your opinion here, because you did not provide proof, should be taken with a few grains of salt. People do all sorts of things that are perfectly valid without proof. Science is not only the stuff that can be proven without a doubt (philosophy as an extreme). How would science ever have evolved without mediocre proof that were later confirmed with strong proof?

Now don't get me wrong. I like proof because it often gives insight and might reject other plausible explanations, etc. And there should be way to describe to what degree a paper is formally proven (i.e. what the risks are when you follow the reasoning in the paper).

But in the evolving state of a field of science, there are 'well-confined' areas that should use more proof and 'new' areas that are hardly explored. Don't confuse the two (both have value). The later does not have definitions yet, does not have methods of describing a method, ... Do not require writing a book for such new areas.

Your kind of opinion got me out of science. Creativity has no place there at this moment in time.

Although simple, it would be very effective... Mod up please.

Well new tech is also lagging. Do you have your own server with email, all services (like monitoring, backup, security, ...) and pretty good spam filtering? For not-so-much money?

Because larger amounts of people are slow to migrate.

We are a service provider and therefore create our own traffic and it is not extremely timing sensitive. We do monitor download times and they are always in acceptable limits (i.e. fast). The ports of our data centres are also monitored and spew out exactly our traffic numbers.

The load on our routers and the memory use is extremely low. They have been tested to see what happens under certain conditions. Vyatta takes a little memory per connection and we have seen a DDoS killing us because there was no more memory (when we had a low end machine do the work: Dell 1850, 2GB) and we upgraded the machine at that point to rediculous standards. But I will say that there certainly is a place for specialized equipment.

We use Linux on our routers and it works just fine (we have about 400Mbit traffic on our AS). Intel says Vyatta works up to 10G. No asics there (I'm not counting the network card chips).

Most countries do not have a DMCA. SOL.

And often the slowest part of the webpage.

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I think they are fighting for page neutrality. Why would one image not be loaded and the other one will be? Who is the author and holds the copyright? Who is the receiver to modify such works? I think they have a point (when net neutrality would be law; oh wait it isn't)[/evil grin]