Wasn't Berlin the capital of the USA? I clearly recall an American president saying "Eekh been ine Burleener".

Mr. Bush, is that you?

You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it. Right now, the patent offices (on both sides of the Pond) are the problem. If prior art does not stop patent attacks, nothing will. Funding the enemy is the worst solution possible.

Agreed. Allowing 3rd party cookies is just a security bug. It is just like all other cross-site attacks: sensitive data can be leaked to sites that the user did NOT want to visit or leak his info to. Thank goodness there are extensions to work around this bug.

Given the fact that microsecond trading data centres are mostly anonymous (you will have a hard time finding out who they belong to, who is doing such trading and those firms want to keep it that way), this must be a tip of a snowflake, not even a minor iceberg. While this is an insane amount of money, the real richest people probably own a Godzillion more, but have "structured it away" to keep it secret.

So you can screw {h where h in World}. Like the poster said, that is quite unethical. I never understand how people can confuse "free market" with "free people", as they are usually opposites.

You know, to be able to insert something between two existing lines.

Repeat after me: "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good". Gee, read the manual!

I read about it a week ago, but I think nobody could see it back then...

On the contrary. It was the W3C who announced there would never be an HTML5. It was the WHATWG who took over the task that the W3C bluntly refused.

That is an interesting one. As far as I understand it, they did not steal from individuals, but from the bank. Off course this is the same as grabbing from someone else's savings, but so is fractional reserve banking. So in a way, if your bank does it, it is normal, if someone else does it, all of a sudden it is criminal.

When I was camping in a forest, I saw somebody who had mounted a wall socket on a tree, put his shaving mirror on top of it, and plugged his (rechargable) electric razor into it and shaved himself, so it looked like the razor was powered by the tree.

I think the term slipped in because in the choice between "Venture capitalist" and "Vulture capitalist", the latter clearly sounds more appropriate (vultures already arrive if the animal is not dead yet). "Venture capitalist" sounds as if nothing is wrong with it.

Speed ridges only work at subsonic speed, to make the boundary layer turbulent so it "sticks" better to the surface. A rocket is not a golf ball. On the other hand, wrinkles only have impact on the speed and distance it can cover, not on the deadliness.

The thing that is hindering everything else is our money system. We should have a money system that forbids speculation, and where money is created by a democratic power source for actual value, NOT created out of thin air by some (central) bank. That would save healthcare, the environment, and no recession needs to be "solved" by the military either.