Today most browsers that can expose location prompt the user before doing so. It sounds like this bill would require the websites to also obtain explicit permission, meaning to share your location you would always have to click "ok" twice in a row. Seems like a pain; why not continue to rely on the core browser/OS to manage these permissions?

Oh. He said "as an image", which is not the case and threw me off. Yes, it does scale the whole page, seemingly as if the developer had been a good person and specified their layout in ems instead of pixels. Seems like a really good feature to me.

Really? ctrl-+ is working fine for me.

Here's an interesting fact for you: factoid does not mean what you think it does. Though I realize that asking /. editors to pick up on something like that is a pipe dream.

Is it just me, or is "don't say you're minting" an "<a>" without a "href"? I know the editors here aren't great, but I thought if they could do anything right it would be html.

Hard way to do good as a business:

1. 1. Consciously try to do good every day, despite business interests to the contrary.

Easier way to do good as a business:

1. 1. Align your corporate business model with good things.
2. 2. Follow the business model.

In other words, maybe it's because of Google's founders' altruism that you now don't have to trust Google's altruism.

Traditional Google Voice allows free texting. With this new Sprint-GV thing, Sprint charges you the normal rate for all your GV texts. It may just be defending that revenue stream. Also international calls used to be cheaper on GV I think.

Or maybe "sitting and staring at a blank screen for 3 minutes because your professor told you to" decreases self-esteem.

Does anyone else find "33% Thinner" a bit hard to parse? "Thinness" is not something I measure, "Thickness" is. "66% as thick" would be the clearer way to state that figure.

I don't know whether Apple opted for the more ambiguous phrasing just in order to use the word "thin" and not the word "thick", or because they're hoping to confuse people into thinking the iPad 2 is 33% the thickness of the iPad 1.

Well said. I know that "expert" personally; he's an undergrad.