Whilst it might be extremely juvenile I got a good chuckle out of "your mother":
- "Measure the popularity of your mother on the internet"
- "Explore your mother in 3D" (uhhhhh)
- "Alert me about your mother"

Brilliant way to spend a Friday afternoon at work ;)

I'm not sure what its like in other countries but the Australian Federal Police has been, for quite a while now, watching online RMTs as many criminals are in fact laundering their money through gold/isk/whatever services.Considering how little auditing there is on in game transactions I'm not surprised that they've taken to it readily.

By their powers combine they are captain Fappoogle.

Whilst I'm sure there will be something like AdBlock for Twitter I can imagine them making the terms of use for the API so that doing so would be a violation of their TOS. Considering that many of the clients are ad supported already (and Twitter has mentioned that there might be a revenue sharing arrangement in the works) the larger majority would comply with the new ads, lest they get blocked and overtaken by another client that does.

I think you might be confusing Facebook with MySpace since the former hasn't showed any signs of decline. In fact they've been growing at a fairly consistent rate for the past year or so and are nipping at Google's heels for that number 1 most visited spot on the net. MySpace on the other hand has been in decline for well over a year.

Would you care to cite a few examples of a Twitter-esque service that came before Twitter? The only other microblogging service that's been around almost as long as them (off the top of my head) is Tumblr and even they were launched about a year later. There were of course those engaged in microblogging before such services existed, but Twitter was still arguably the first to market.

Citation provided.

Whilst it doesn't appear that there is actually legislation preventing the reprocessing of nuclear waste on American soil there seems to be a "lack of formal approval" from the government to allow anyone to do it. There's been funding for projects for looking into the technology but as of right now it does not appear that the government has given the required approval for reprocessing to occur.

While this is true it doesn't take much to become a registered business in Australia. I went through the auDA to get my domain name registered and was held up because of this. 20 minutes later I had a registered ABN and no questions about whether I was actually conducting business under it. So whilst the idea behind it is sound, the implementation is somewhat lacking.

Granted now they have some of my details on record but none of them were above being fudged.

AIS data is also used for things like oil spills and search and rescue. When I used to work for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority we had a couple incidents where the AIS data was used to reconstruct the events leading up to the disaster (such as the pacific adventurer one earlier this year). They also use it to track any vessels going near the Great Barrier Reef without having a qualified pilot on board (basically someone who knows their way around the reef) so the vessel doesn't crash into anything.

I can't speak for other countries though, but in Australia we're definitely using AIS data as part of our safety programs.

After spending about a week searching for a decent netbook I came across this little beasty:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Notebook/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=3191

10.1" screen and a decent amount of grunt behind it. The reviews I've read on it so far seem to be positive and I've ordered one for myself since the only other option was the T91, which you mentioned. The difference in features between the two was more than enough to justify the higher price on the T1028X, although the clincher for me was the screen.

Since I got mine for under AU$900 it would seem to fit the bill quite nicely for you :)

Whilst I like the basic idea the whole article seems dedicated to peddling his wares. Sure he's giving away the basic concepts and some implementation details away but the primary focus of the article is to drive sales to his new income avenue. I would've understood if he built another business based on the concept (that would've shown it works for smaller outfits as well) but from what I can tell he's basically using the Techdirt name to peddle wares on his readership.

Maybe I'm just jealous because I can't monetize anything I've done on the Internet..... :)