Why is 1oz of gold worth $1262? Because people said it must be, not because it's backed by anything which made it worth that much.

This is how pricing works. There is no item or unit or work in the universe that has some kind of intrinsic price. Items are worth what the market will pay for them, period.

The risk of the "potential danger" of someone cracking into Chrome's update mechanism and pushing out a rogue update, is exponentially over-weighed by forcing client endpoints to always have the latest security patches - so I totally disagree with the premise of your post. It is far, far, far better for the security of the web as a whole to ensure browsers always have the latest security updates. The near-forced auto-update mechanisms of Firefox and Chrome are some of the best things to have ever happened to web browsers from the point of view of security.

Finally, Chrome *DOES* provide a way for administrators to lock down to specific Chrome versions, so your post doesn't even have a leg to stand on.

The difference here is all the attempts at Oak Island, including the first discovery of the pit in the early 1795 had multiple witnesses and were fully documented thereafter. And it is not as simple as "well someone found it earlier and filled it back in", because if that was the case then all of the depth marker platforms would not be there.

Sorry if I seem a bit passionate but I have been fascinated by Oak Island ever since I read a book about it as a teenager. The most interesting thing I find is even with all the technology and engineering prowess available today, there is still not a way to just dig this hole up. For example, these guys on this show have literally spend millions of dollars on this - and they are engineers trained in deep well drilling - and they are still no further ahead. Tens of millions have been spent over the past 100 years trying to dig up this hole and deal with the spillway booby-trap.

Oak Island is actually very interesting. The more you read into the history and find all the weird stuff going on, the more it seems like there has to be SOMETHING down there. The intricacies of what has been found to date preclude it being some sort of prank.

The whole DRM thing is pretty much a non issue. No major music outlet (Google, Amazon, iTunes) has had DRM on their tracks for years. Even streaming providers don't use DRM anymore. That whole ship sailed a long time ago.

If one is going to buy the physical media version of an album, why WOULDN'T they get the Vinyl?

I would have liked to see the study also exclude smoking.

If the number is as high as 65% including the smoking, I would think that after removing that it would be way higher - like on the order of 80% or more.

With the government.... could be a great new revenue stream for the cities if they would get their heads out of their ass.

Google Talk / Hangouts are also XMPP based as well, although they have pretty much closed it off to all outside clients.

Chrome, Dolphin, the Android browser, Kindle, and about a dozen others. The vast majority of web browsers are based on WebKit.

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Just ditch Trident. Why do we need more browser engines? What is wrong with WebKit? Why waste man hours and money on this waste of time project instead of helping with the development of WebKit?

It drives me bananas when people write posts like this and I see it online alll the time. Unless you care more about some corporation than your fellow consumer, NAME NAMES! There is essentially ZERO reason for a company to change practices other than bad PR, and you can't create that without naming them.

This is what I have been saying all along as holding the web back - two few programming languages.

Now that we have this new language, we can finally move forward.

To a 4 year old its the same thing.

Back in the eighties and nineties, the only organization who could even feasibly track Santa was the military, because they had the radar and private companies like Google did not own their own satellites taking pictures of the whole globe 24 hours a day. Nowadays, the idea that Google would do just as good a job of monitoring Santa as NORAD, is not far fetched.