Hawaii too. We are pretty wasteful with our sunlight. -- Honestly though, I had forgotten about DST until /. reminded me. It is inconvenient to have the time difference between people back in real america change twice a year.

Sadly enough if they took that to a US court he would probably win.

I know NSA doesn't have the best 'street-cred' but remember that they are the folks that brought up SELinux. When they are working for security they generally know what they are talking about. Has anyone had any experience installing software on a NSA machine? If you have then you know the hurdles and testing that takes place to get something usable. They LOVE security and really just want you to love it as much as they do.

At least on the search pages it is a very well thought out and intuitive design. I didn't even notice the change but was using the top bar to go to the images after a search before I stopped and thought something was different and noticed the bar at the top. Hopefully they continue to keep it simple and intuitive.

Unfortunately I feel they will probably end up with a bit of feature creep and bloat before long.

I signed in to get the full brunt of karmic demise, and because this isn't something AC can say with any validity...

Asperger's is not something that every discovers after a while. It is not just social ineptitude and awkwardness. Every time some criminal or pre-tween internet troll claims they suffere from asperger's they are hurting the community of people with real syndromes and illnesses. I have lived with autism my whole life -- in that my brother suffers from it. When my parents die I will be legally responsible for him. It is serious and affects nearly every aspect of life. Asperger's, in the funny definition (and possible the most accurate) was said to contracted after reading the wikipedia article on it.
This definitely has something to do with my generations sick obsession with 'being the most fucked up.' I have heard arguments about who's took the most medication or who has the strongest pills. Society is failing somewhere and this is the result.

Not at all to imply that it isn't a real thing, but they are belittling the condition when every other kid who didin't know what to say in a random social encounter is diagnosed with it. Some people are different - not broken, not sick, just different. But when we see this we must label it, must diagnose and 'treat' whatever ails them. That mentality just sets us up to be susceptible to this type of justice-tomfoolery.

OH god why did you do that! I clicked the tropes link about 2 seconds after it posted and I just emerged after finding my way to an xkcd about tvtropes from one of the articles. Six hours gone and I still have about 90 tabs open to sift through haha.

They already do: it is called Mandarin. (Not to disrespect the language and culture, I love it) But with it being a tonal language and all, if they are working anywhere within an 'acceptable' ** realm of false positives to true positives, this system is a technical triumph. Just off of the top of my head I can think of 10 different words that start with or use a part of 'protest' (in sound) but with different tones. And that is if the people are actually enunciating, which I can say with near certainty that there are only a handful of Chinese speakers in the world that will enunciate words clearly enough to allow any speech recognition system to function properly, and they are all news reporters.

** I understand that an acceptable level is probably of no concern to those running the system.

The Asian fob on the Telly reported it from japanistan - theorizing that Godzilla woke up again.

It would be more interesting if facebook had a way to (similar to youtube) guess the orientation of the users. Invasive? Yeah whatever -- as stated many times before what you post online is everyone's business. Better still would be a page that you could view all of the things facebook "knows" about you.

Seems like they needed more bones for the offering.

So very true (both of you) often have I read stories that will focus too narrowly on the tech not the story, whereas stories that are "Sci-Fi" (in the truest sense) like Ender's Game[, and the other 10 books after the first one], can be more about the story in front of the tech that you get to the end and can't laundry-list the technology that was present in the book, without more closely associating the weaved tale with each 'incident.'

I only really thought this since I stayed up the last 12 hours reading Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead instead of sleeping. Seriously; the best books-possibly ever.

since no teenager could think up an idea this stupid on their own without a team of people helping

I don't think we should underestimate the ability of teenagers to think up stupid ideas.