Amazon is required to do that under the copyright law. The content was not bought for the customer to own. Only licensed. Or sub-licensed. Or whatever is the name for the legal clusterfuck that happened between Disney, Amazon and the customer.

This is how digital sales work on any web site that offers them.

It actually would be kind of interesting to have that kind of addon for Firefox. I'm curious how much do I cost to advertisers.

This may be a platform specific thing. I use linux and at work, where I use Chrome, I have an outrageously fast computer. At home, where I use Firefox, my desktop is quite modest. Still, the perceived performance is about the same.

For some reason I feel it should be great for browsing porn. I'll try it some day.

Super useful to lie about your browser in user-agent string, when you are tethering, but your plan does not allow that.

I use Chrome at work -- because many in house apps are Chrome-only (Chrome is new IE) -- and Firefox at home and for all my personal browsing. No idea what are you talking about: Firefox is as fast for me and I can not remember it crashing. Plus, the added bonus of NoScript, Cookie Monster and Ghostery.

Probably representatives were given some of those 500 notes. You know, so that they can admire their beauty.

There is nothing wrong with it per se. However, all jerk drivers do it (tailgaters, people who cut others etc.), so yeah, while correlation does not imply causation, the only thing insurance company cares about is correlation.

Teach them copyright law and use it as a proof of Intelligent Design.

February 14th is the holiday targeted at singles. It supposed to make them feel lonely and desperate, so that they will go out and buy a bunch of shit to feel better and/or in a hope to get someone this way.

If the experts are already known, then I definitely don't see a point in not disclosing their names before the fund raiser.

I think the idea is really cool, but the process is also very important.

This is still an important question. While yes, the money will attract some talent, the money also will attract scammers and just random people who want to make a quick buck. And I don't see $50k attracting enough talent.

I don't know, fear of snakes seem to be pretty universal in the animal kingdom. Can't find the source right now, but I remember I read some article that talked about many different animals imitating snakes to scare enemies: geese (when they hiss), cats (the hissing sound they make when scared), some birds make hissing sounds from their nest. If we assume that these traits really evolved as imitations of snakes, it means that it was pretty important for any animal not to get too close to one.

Especially given the fact that the said company has been in business for ... more than 120 years! They have seen the whole markets emerge and then die and managed to stay in business amidsts all of that.

It would be really-really nice if somebody could explain the *causal* relationship between these two. For example, please show me the formula or some statistics based estimates for how much more single 1s transaction will cost vs. 1000 1ms transactions.