Nobody has answered the questions I posed. Does the user see an even slightly different page? Do they get different prices on stuff on the site? Who are these affiliates?

I could understand if amazon.com was being redirected to a rival company, or if (as some ISPs have done) typos and invalid DNS entries got redirected to a page stuffed with advertising.

Excuse me if I don't understand this aspect of Amazon's trading practice - but then you are probably sitting in your mom's basement spending her money on Amazon all day long. Okay now we're even.

From the article: he goes to amazon.com, it returns the IP for the proxy, and eventually a redirect to www.amazon.com/?affiliate=id

How does that affect the user? Do they see a different page than if they'd gone straight to www.amazon.com? Or is it just that the affiliate gets a cut if the user buys anything from amazon at that point? Who loses out here? Other affiliates who aren't in the program?

If WiFi access points aren't properly fitted to walls and ceilings, they could fall off and hit the students. That probably happens more often than someone gets cancer from the radiation.

Bill Hicks cared - he would have had a lot less material without marketers.

Although he did only want them to kill themselves.

EA should have worked with the Chinese government to produce a version where you can invade Taiwan, Japan, and if you do really well, North Korea,,,

Some idiot sub-editor wrote a misleading figure caption here. The article (which I've read) says nothing about how data is lost with age. It only says something about how much data is lost for papers of a given age as of now.

In other words it does not mean that in 10 years time, 10 year old papers will have such drastic data loss. The world 20 years ago was a very different place in terms of communication, scientific practice, and data storage than it was 10 years ago or is now.

The Slashdot article repeats the fallacy by saying "scientific data disappears". No it doesn't. Some has disappeared, but the paper cannot say anything about whether it is still disappearing.

Come back in 10 years time for that conclusion.

Irish pounds were actually "Punts" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pound] - named to rhyme with the irish word for "banker".

Sheldon: Well, there’s some value to taking a multivitamin, but the human body can only absorb so much, what you’re buying here are the ingredients for very expensive urine.

Ever see two ships using those flashing lamp things to talk in morse code? They are communicating at the speed of light.

Data transfer speed is in baud, or bps, or Gb/s, or Encyclopedia Britannicas/s - never metres per second.

Wikipedia: "Carlsen modelled for G-Star Raw's Autumn/Winter 2010 advertising campaign with actress Liv Tyler." and "Carlsen was selected as one of the "sexiest men of 2013" by Cosmopolitan." He's a pawn star.

Never mind that, what about the human's ability to breathe inside shipping containers?

A neighbourhood ecologist friend of mine has a bat detector. Shall we settle this once and for all?

I say I say I say, how does a floating data center connect to the internet?

Pier-to-pier networking!

But seriously, what bandwidth and latency can you expect from something out in the ocean, unless they drag a wodge of fibres with them or tap into something on the seabed...

His website has, anyway. http://clusterballoon.com/ is giving me 503 errors.

Best/worst one I found had included a plea that he had fair use "as long as democracy exists".