Same story for me... discarded edits should at least be justified. This is Wikipedia where everybody can contribute, not Encyclopedia Britannica

Oracle is doing much harm to Java. In the longtime this will not pay off at all.

Right on. The most dangerous thing in facebook is the relations with our peers that can be harvested. Spammers will now not only exchange e-mail lists but the relationship between each e-mail. Talk about effective spamming, malware propagation, phishing, etc....

Well I scored 62. I would not be happy to be where you are and you probably would not be happy to be at my place. So I think that things are ok after all. Hmm ? But it's true that I do not fit well in the "cruel corporate world" :-) I found a niche and it's great for me.

When most people on earth have a problem with a law, maybe the law is the problem ? Huh?

It's just Microsoft that want to control the web in place of Adobe. Nothing will be gained for the user with this. That codec is managed by a patent pool.

Well Google insights give another view and this confirm the trend that tiobe gives :

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=java%20job%2Cc%20job%2Cc%23%20job%2Cjavascript%20job&cmpt=q

To "unblock" an ad-blocked site in ad-block plus, the technique is described here :
http://www.devcha.com/2007/08/how-to-disable-adblock-plus-or.html

I think it's fare so ask us to disable our ad blocking engine for specific site we visit often.

I was really disturbed by the buzz fiasco with privacy and was awaiting a good action from Google to restore my faith in them. I think this move deserve to be called a good action.

That, with the buzz fiasco, made me consider all the information that Google had on me.... And it was a lot....
I think that Google lives in a ivory tower and do not understand what the real world is made of...

Anyway, I'm in the process of closing my Google account, my only problem though is Google Reader, I have a lot of feeds that I follow and there do not seem to be anything that good around as reader.

Well I don't have it yet and do not want it. Is Google trying to answer a need I have or trying to stuff me with things I do not need ?

I copy pasted this info from here: http://lwn.net/Articles/372416/

These three Nokia patents look like they could be enforced against Theora:

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Ic0CAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=ieIVAAAAEBAJ
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=zGWBAAAAEBAJ

Well the problem here is the saved games are remote and you have to have an authenticated version to connect to it. So a cracked game is not the solution. Or the cracker will have to enable a local save game engine. Which will be tricky to say the least.

You're welcome ! :-)
It's probably because of the body of a deceased person. ;-p

I am currently studying the phenomenon of spirit possession. I know it is designated as crazy on this newsgroup but I take the risk of a least writing about it. From my readings, I would say that most young people today are likely to be owned by one or more bodies of deceased persons. The fact that religion and interest in what happens after death is rejected as a whole since the 40-50 could explain a large mass of people died since the last 15-20 years, with no or little spiritual cue, come back to haunt consciously or not the spirit of young people who are easy prey.
The solution is therapies based on hypnosis and regression.