I've worked with the IETF on several RFCs. I'm also familiar with the challenges that the Tor project faces daily, and what they have to do to stay ahead of the entities trying to break Tor. I think for Tor to even stop to talk to the IETF would be an waste of their time; Tor needs to be nimble, and the IETF standards process is painfully, horribly slow and unable to move quickly on anything. Given that Tor releases updates on a cycle that is shorter than the normal time a draft spends in the AD review queue, by the time an RFC got to the standards track it would already be out-of-date.

The real powerhouse in speech recognition tech isn't MIT -- it's BBN, at the other end of Cambridge.

Interest, yes. Cash, no.

That's what being very poor means.

Exactly my thought. The profit margins for Google are never going to be higher than they are right now -- the next billion people aren't going to be able to afford the $150 jeans Google is showing me ads for... and the billion after that are going to be even poorer. When you're wondering where your next meal is coming from, you probably aren't going to spend a lot of time on Google+.

The idea that Google is going to make money on subscription services is dubious. It's a business model (hello, AOL!) that doesn't work, even in markets that actually have money to spend on such things.

Couldn't they even say "thank you"?

It doesn't seem that long ago that if someone posted a duplicate story to slashdot they'd need to wait more than thirteen hours.

Have we really run out of other things to bash Microsoft about?

You can't be serious.

What if, in addition to the pleasure due to heroin, it also diminishes other sorts of pleasure?

This sounds like it could be a small slice of hell.

... but Ray Tomlinson at BBN invented the use of the "@" sign.

You don't seem to understand that "training their immune systems" is exactly what immunizations do.

By this logic, we should be expecting bullet-proof cattle and thresher-proof wheat any day now, not to mention hook-resistant fish and armored potatoes...

Done and done.

... and these haters are the hatiest.

The Westboro people turn my stomach.

... so yeah, who can blame them?