Unary representation of your program's Gödel number. You can code in one letter, but your program may get pretty long.

(which Google, btw, finally realized can be more than two words to be omitted from a search because they're too common)

Yeah, in the early days multiple words were just an AND keyword search. I think that changed over 6-7 years ago, though.

In the time between these bursts, maybe a few species got lucky and made it almost to space colonization before getting scrubbed.

Maybe we're one of them.

I saw that episode.

Wow! That sure is an unexpected application of a new super-tensile material. :P

No government would want to trust their TLD (on which relies the entire country's infrastructure and economy) to a foreign country that interferes with it. Once that can of worms is opened, you'd probably end up with each country hosting their own alternative root and mandating their ISPs either default to using it or being able to fail over to it quickly when necessary.

But for one simple payment or $100,000, you can pre-purchase your batteries for the next 500 billion years!

Unity's equivalent to Metro tiles

I don't know if this is a joke, because when I install Ubuntu these days I kill Unity and replace it with Gnome before doing anything else. But I sure hope so.

... then log into Facebook with your real name and post your data from that connection.

There is, but they're not content to do it there because they want to fool other people into thinking it's not bullshit.

(...)

That would be overreaching, since Google now has actual competition. Trying to apply pressure too widely would drive industries to use and endorse Bing instead.

(I don't think "anti-trust violation" means what you think it means, by the way.)

WHAT?

I'm not installing such a crap update. Why would they leave out the most important thing?

- "Please list the FOIA requests you have complied with in the past twelve months"

- "That information is classified."

- "Please state whether or not you will comply with this FOIA request"

- "That information is... " *headexplode*

Yeah, but if you're using a smartphone at all, you'd need expert knowledge to protect your anonymity from it (rooting, etc.). The authenticator app doesn't require network access though (it's basically a time-synchronized security token, afaik), so it might be possible to port it to some non-connected device.