I believe that it's been going in the bank against the day when funding dried up and to avoid becoming reliant on external influence from any partner, current or future. I've not got a citation though, that's from vaguely recalled coverage of the Google deal being extended three years ago (not instituted as TFS mistakenly claims).

Their whole strategy so far has been to blame the users: "Its not Gawkers fault your passwords are so weak."

Which is both reprehensible of them and false. Their poor choice of algorithm literally truncated my sixteen character password to an eight character one. When I logged in to change mine I did so with just the front half.

This comment is asinine, not insightful. Companies are complaining about being unfairly ranked (as they see it) when people search for their services on Google. The companies can't "use something else" because they aren't the ones doing the googling.

Government x doesn't like Wikileaks redistributing its documents to the general public? They should use something else!

Brit here. Parallel with "Cool Britannia" (remember that?) I saw a lot of use in the press of the "Naughty Nineties" (modelled on the "Swinging Sixties"). So if the astonishingly imaginative trend continues, I imagine the next decade will be christened the Naughteens.

I believe the '74 Suburban/454 had a fuel capacity of 40 gallons (~151.4 liters).

Well I for one hope that he knows how to use The Googles to make sure the Internets is secure.

Still no support for foreign keys in partitioned tables. Makes partitioning pretty much worthless in most real world deployments.

If you take an individual country the size of Sweden or Canada

WTF are you on about? That's quite a wide range you're tarring with one brush. Sweden is relatively small. Canada is totally enormous.

I live in Montreal. When I got married 42 years ago on Nov 10th, (A weekend), I can tell you that two days later, winter hit with a 2 foot snowfall and sub-zero weather. Winter started the 12th of November and that was the norm. Since then, on the average, winter has been arriving one day later each year. Last week, on Dec 7th, winter arrived. Snow and cold. Today (15 Dec) is the kind of weather we usually had in November. From my perspective, in the past 60 years, I have seen winter shortened by one month in the fall, and around 15 days in the spring. Living in Canada, with global warming, we will be OK as the earth warms. But the mid-west USA and elsewhere will become unbearable in summer, and the USA will experience (in my view) severe water shortages. We do have to go on the assumption that the trend is there, and to ignore it is to cause your grand-children to pay the hardship price for today's inaction.

Might be a little overkill, but should be able to do what you want. Take a look http://www.phprojekt.com/index.php?&newlang=eng

VirtualBox is fine for what it is, but I don't have the time to struggle with it.

"some really far out edge cases" - welcome to my life.

But VMware is BETTER. And $189 approaches zero compared to the cost of the time I spend with it.

What are you talking about? Britain doesn't even have a constitution.

Claiming that Britain lacks a constitution on the basis that no-one has written it all down in one place is akin to claiming that the USA doesn't have a head of state because Obama doesn't wear a pointy gold hat.

I'm not sure I'd want to publicly claim to have a gorilla penis. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis

For example, an adult gorilla's erect penis is about 4 cm (1.5 in) in length;

Cuil was launched last year with great fanfare regarding its privacy policy which promised not to track users' personally identifiable information. See their current policy alongside a warning that it is soon to change somehow here: http://www.cuil.com/info/privacy/

I use and normally recommend Clusty which says in plain English that "We at Clusty don't track you." (http://clusty.com/privacy) and in legalese that they do collect "Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, referral data, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies (described below) that may uniquely identify your browser" (http://clusty.com/privacypolicy).

That's either ethical or useful for you. tl;dr - one beginning with "C".

Firefox extensions and browser plugins proper certainly can be disabled/prevented from installing by Mozilla. See https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/blocklist/ for the (en-US only?) naughty list.

I don't know what SeaMonkey, Camino, Iceweasel, etc do, but filtering for "blocklist" on about:config shows your browser's exact settings. Notably the extensions.blocklist.enabled pref allows the user to turn the remote killswitch off if they so desire.