I find them highly irritating because they do hide the real URL. I'd much rather have multiple copy and pastes with a long URL that has been broken across multiple lines. Since moving from text only email and giving up on the spamfest Usenet though, I can't say long URLs have really been much of a problem for me.

I was all set to name my company Goo and base it out of Greenland.

Damn you, Google!

The only systems I keep currently hooked up to my TV: Atari 2600 (Taz, Warlords, and a couple others), NES (without a doubt the best gaming had to offer, check out ROMS/Emulators or at least the Wii store), PS2 (The original couple Tony Hawk's, some RPG's, and a scattering of others), and the Wii. I own every system, and close to every game for each of them since I did the reviewer gig and without a doubt those are the tops. Out of the 360/PS3 there are at best 3 games total that I enjoy and only 2 on the horizon for the next entire year.

A lot of us that grew up on the Atari 2600 are aging and have limited time and interest in rehashed leftovers. The kids coming up now have so many entertainment options that gaming is minor and the more social aspects are what they want like the Rock Band junk. Gameplay and depth are secondary to gamer scores and friends. It's polarizing and game companies can't reach both audiences at once, so there is a rift. Things are fragmented, and only getting more so.

Again, thanks for a good chat... sadly work calls.

I, for one, will not be satisfied until my URLs are compressed as a super positions of themselves and stored in qubits.

Perhaps Google can use one of their quantum computers to appease me.

If he wins will he have to retest for certification or as he all reedy been put on a black list? but even if he is people will likely still look the other way and he can keen them on his CV.

minus admin time as the admin time will be roughly the same either way.

Admin time is not at all "the same"; do you have any idea how much time it costs and how much risk is involved in ordering, configuring, and high-end machines? Then there's the room, the power supplies, the racks, all the supporting infrastructure.

Also, when you buy them, you are stuck with those machines--you have sunk costs. The less you use them, the more you pay for the hours that you do use them.

Well the issue is that if they disclose the passwords and he fucks things up, they can already be screwed, so this precedent has potential to just invalidate their only option

Seems he uses the common definition...

So the common definition is so broad and vague that it covers even the slightest bit of cooperation?

If that is the case, then the discussion is pointless because everything is socialism and therefore it ceases to have any meaning.

Excellent, now that I've abolished socialism before finishing my morning cup of coffee we can get to the real work.

Your CD collection is barely above trivial if it fits on an iPhone, and certainly not 'massive'.

Well, eight million requests - good grief. Maybe the police has an automated screen scraper tied to a moving map to follow a suspect in real time. Otherwise some copper must really bored and pressing Reload umpteen times a day.

I just don't understand how this could be legal. The fact that Sprint is being open about this seems to suggest that they have done nothing wrong, and this is business as usual. If so, is this standard with other cell providers as well? I could have sworn I've read an article elsewhere, where someone was trying to locate a missing person and contacted the cell provider to have them give them GPS coords and they refused to turn them over without a court order (cannot find it after some searching)... yet they give the police unlimited access without so much as a court provided rubber stamp machine?!

I spoke without verifying my facts. Some of the guys I worked with at my previous job were definitely javascript fanboi's, I probably wasn't listening to them very well as they described how awesome javascript was.

How do you hide or move a DOM object in real time with css?

Right now? You don't. In the future? Maybe CSS animation (already implemented in WebKit).

Well, they have to be, because you're basically threading a steam bomb throughout your entire house. I'll stick with forced air thank you.

They use this JS crap at my company for training materials. What could be simple HTML links are giant Javascript functions that frequently just sit there inert when you click them. Reload the page and suddenly they work. It's hit or miss, and the same code can act differently in the same browser from moment to moment. It's also a major reason this company is still shackled to IE6.