I don't get why Western countries seem to have problems with providing affordable yet ubiquitous electronic currency. Limiting these uses to transit just serve to annoy users. The approach Hong Kong took with the Octopus card should be the example to follow. Not only can they be used for nearly all types of mass transit (except for taxi), they can be used at nearly all fast-food joints (e.g. McDonalds), all major convenient stores (i.e. 7-11, and typically people top up there card over there), even major restaurants now support this contact-less payment system.

If this is adopted by other parties, users should feel less apprehensive about storing value onto these cards.

Or just get bigger pockets.

... and people bought that sparklie flying horse for $25 in droves. Blizzard wanted to make that mount "exclusive", and one way to do that is to have it priced very high. Well, so much for that plan. If they can sell it to 10% of the player base at $25 and results in near maximum total profit, I don't see why they should not do this. Not like this mount is a requirement to enjoy the game, nor the auction house in D3 be required for maximum amount of fun for you.

Simple economics, my friend.

Oh, you always have the option to vote with your wallet, too.

One way to find out is to do a promiscuous tcpdump of your local network traffic while using that app - if you can read personally identifiable items in plain text, you are simply not safe.

Not to mention lack of well insulated houses. Any heating won't do you any good (unless you live in apartments, but that too can vary). With the high energy costs here it's more economical to wear coats if it gets that cold.

Then again, Canadian winters have trained me well, I laugh at people who complain about the cold here.

All someone interested in breaking this system at a basic level needs to do is to gain access to some popular server to put some code (plain HTML img tags, or javascript if site is vulnerable) that will automatically do searches based on those "monitored" search terms when a user-agent accesses it. This will incriminate all innocent parties that browse those "infected" pages (as if something like is bad), which naturally flood the monitoring tools with garbage.

I think a number of slashdotters skip the summary also and go straight into the comments.

Why would you need to place cameras some specific distance apart to record what is essentially two constant stream of frames?

It's relatively trivial to replay the capture, all that is required are two projectors with a polarizing filter over each lenses turned in a way that so that it would work with the users' polarized glasses. Then synchronize the two streams temporally and spatially onto the screen (and play it out of the correct projector), and enjoy your 3D movie.

Just call yourself a programmer with a fluent understanding of proper programming methodologies (which is knowing how to separate out business/presentation logic, writing unit tests, etc.) The language you work with should be secondary to that.

Not that fast. Circumference of Earth (~40 000 km) / Speed of Light in vacuum. (~300 000 km/s) = 0.133s.

Also, speed of light in glass fiber is about 2/3 that, so it will take light 0.2 seconds to travel around the globe in a glass fiber. Don't forget most routers take the light signals they receive, convert it into electric signals so the circuits can route the packets, before converting them back to light again. At least this is the case until full optical packet switching becomes prevalent.