How Can the Stimulus Plan Help the Internet? It can't! Already more money has been dumped into this stimulus plan that has been spent on all the major wars this country has fought.

Demand side economics is not the right solution at this time.

After my post, both were on an identical 334 votes. Impressively even-handed there. Almost as if two plates each acquired equal and opposite charge, thus storing a potential energy...

That is pretty polarizing, you incentive clod.

Bad comparison - the people who reverse-engineered the IBM weren't the same people who designed it in the first place. A "clean room" approach isn't possible in this case.

Yes, it is a bad example and a clean room is not possible in this case by any standard. That being said, at 3:30 in the morning with ten minutes before leaving for work my intent was to point hi_caramba_2008 in a (very) general direction of some documentation. This is a project that probably will present some very tall obstacles and he will have to think outside the box if he expects succeed.

It may not be a big deal to most people, but someone might be peeved at this:

Online Comments and Personal Information: We treat your name, city, state, and any comments you provide as public information. We may, for example, provide compilations of your comments to national leaders and other individuals participating in our efforts, without disclosing email addresses. We may also make comments along with your city and state available to the press and public online.

So, in order to tell them what you think via this site, make sure you want it in the Public Domain, as this implies you agree to that condition to comment. Huh. I wonder if they can do that? Anyone know?

Probably not, here is the White House policy:

Information Collected and Stored Automatically If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;

2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;

3. The date and time you access our site;

4. The pages you visit; and

5. If you linked to the White House website from another website, the address of that website. We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

And

The information you provide is not given to any private organizations or private persons. The White House does not collect or use information for commercial marketing.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/privacy.html

Another thing that bothers me is change.gov has a copyright notice on it. With a few exceptions United states Government work is in the Public domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_the_United_States_Government