Plus I didn't say that Americans are better than everyone else. But there is a concept of protecting your own. Think of the US and it's citizens as a big family. Are you going to actively going to screw over your family? Or are you going to give preferential treatment to your family.

ILLEGAL according to *US* law. We're not talking about Americans.

This has nothing to do with racial issues. This has to do with the US doing what's best for US citizens. If an Indian American and an Irish American were applying for the same job, give it to the best qualified. Don't import thousands of Indians to compete with us for own our jobs. If a German company is outsourcing their project and the best candidates are an Indian firm and an American firm, give it to the best qualified company. Don't throw down the "racist" card unless that's what it is.

WTF??? As if we didn't take enough of a hit in 2001-2003, we're going to open up the floodgates to India AGAIN??? I'd like a little protection here please, Mrs. Clinton.

Honestly! Isn't this just a little silly? This copyright stuff has really gone too far. Do the record companies really think they're losing money by little billy singing his favorite song to the world????

Ya know, there are a few things that Microsoft got right: 1) Office, 2) SQL Server, and 3) Visual Studio. Visual Studio is a GREAT IDE. While it's not quite as extensible as Eclipse, you can still develop plugins for it that will do pretty much anything. If you're into PHP, you can (with a plugin) do PHP on it. Plus you can step through the PHP *AND* JavaScript code. I'm no M$ fanboy, but they have produced some gems among the steaming piles of dung.

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That is seriously stupid! It's an inexact science. How can they possibly be held responsible?

Sounds a lot like a tricorder to me!

Prussia is back???

WTF?!?!?! Seriously??? Some people are stupid.

Seriously?!?!??! C'mon!!

Yes, seriously. Most vital records have a privacy policy where they can't be searched for a certain period of time. The U.S. Census isn't available for 72 years for example. The 1940 census will be available in 2012. Vital records (births, deaths, marriages) have similar periods. I mean, you can go to the vital records department of any state and get your own but you can't get other people's. What Ancestry.com has is what is PUBLICALLY available. So you wouldn't find much for yourself or even your parents. Grandparents is even a stretch unless they are sufficiently old (80+ years). Great-grandparents and back, you should have much better luck. I've been using Ancestry for years and it's a great service. Like most computer systems, you have to know HOW to use it. It's not going to blink neon letters on the screen and tell you everything you wanted to know. :-)

Plus the last of the survivors are almost gone. So it won't be in living memory anymore. Sad event, but just another shipwreck.

This is excellent news! I love that Google creates these devices that jumpstart the industry to doing their own versions. Great job, Google!