The two major updates so far this week: Google Chrome, which now renders faster, and flickr, which has significantly more complex and larger graphics. As things get able to and display process more, more is asked of them. We aren't targeting 580px wide simple HTML, no CSS and 15 color gifs. Nor are we targeting a single platform and the simple display of information. Even if you're just displaying stuff, if you're doing it right, you're divorcing content from presentation and sending a handful of files for each page: each a solution to a problem that was at one time annoying. Or "solved" poorly with the likes of early Frontpage or Dreamweaver.

I have a feeling that will be the downfall of Canadians in space. Can you imagine gravy covered cheese curds bouncing into equipment in zero-G?

Thank goodness that people sending photographs of their genitals to other people don't have any impulsive friends, make poor choices in who to hang out with, or have ever befriended random people on the net and quickly deem them friends.

Teens in particular are well known for making choices based on long term thinking and a strong sense of never engaging in revenge or social warfare. First world schools are a shining beacon on the hill for compassion, empathy and an overwhelming sense of equality and egalitarian concern for the mental well being of others. You are right: these people would never engage in behavior that damaged another peer. Skilled bullies and social climbers are never popular in middle school and high school, and embarrassing events are quickly hushed up.

I may be wrong, but I believe they do get fined and the fault recorded. Gaming associations are intended to close down establishments who have too many "mistakes" like that.

Now, I have zero experience with the reality. The way the article reads, it seems that the Nevada’s Gaming Control Board swooped in to oversee things closely. The jaded or masturbacynical will see this as "the system is rotten, they are there just to protect the casinos run by the *man*, man!", and the naive will believe government enforcement always works for the innocent person. The reality is somewhere between Goofy and the "we are nihilists" crowd's view, and egregious errors are corrected according to regulations.

Which really hits the thing this article never covered (or I missed it). Sure there's legal prosecution going on now, but were the winnings illegitimate according to the Pennsylvania and Nevada statutes?

And pagers, smartphones, laptops and computers. Which would only have about five customers. Then the PC, which would only have about 250k sales in the first five years. The videogame industry was "dead" when the NES came out, and videogames are only for children. And so are movies about comic book characters. And cartoons on television.

It has nothing to do with "Nerdy". Society simply shifts focus: Calvin Klein revolutionized the prosaic jeans and men's underwear market and turned them into something people would pay decent money for. Popular foods, fashion and social conventions are always changing. Food suddenly starts getting delivered, and a few years later, nobody thinks anything of it. There were newspaper articles warning people never to buy anything off the web, and how internet retail was a fad. Now those newspapers are websites and sending bills to subscribers via email.

Of course people can easily accept Google Glasses, plus the dozens of other companies making them. We got used to the Walkman, and jamming small speakers next to your eardrums and blocking out the outside is far more strange and alienating. Yet it's still common today, through 30 years of changes in what those headphones or earbuds plug in to.

Or you can use your nice fission, fusion or orbital solar conversion (which does *not* fall into that last category), and make hydrogen. Why? Because then you have a transportable energy... as opposed to transmittable energy, a la power lines. Vehicles, especially those pesky planes, do poorly with extension cords.

To reproduce modern tech with a new energy source, you need to have a transportable energy "fuel". If you have a solid source of power, you can generate hydrogen and carry it from here to there, using it along the way. You're going to be doing it somehow, since the internal chemistry of rechargeable batteries is basically doing the same thing (making transportable energy). Hydrogen just allows separate (and hopefully more efficient) creation, refueling and use processes, rather than putting it all in the same unit, like a rechargeable battery. You can certainly refill an empty fuel cell faster than recharge an empty battery.

Are you sure you'e not comparing it to Sunshine laws? What you're describing sounds like the already existing set of laws that demand most government bodies operate transparently and have openly available records (often requiring they be available online for instant viewing for free, in more recent updates). The FOIA allows citizens to request sealed and classified information: it is reviewed against a set of very limited criteria, and if it doesn't fit any, it is released. If only portions fit, those parts of the information are struck out and the rest released.

There is some overlap between Sunshine laws and FOIA, and Sunshine laws tend to be State laws, versus FOIA, which is Federal. But most of what government agencies do in the US is already a matter of public record, and has been such from the beginning (in the past resulting in vast libraries of printed material).

Hey, it worked for Rapeseed oil: when they cultivated it, they renamed it Canola oil.

But the portability and current infrastructure of petroleum energy is tough to beat. I'd like to see hydrogen do it, but there's still the infrastructure cost to ameliorate -- with the next generation of infrastructure tools likely coming out before the first widely used generation is paid for. It's a tough problem, only easy when you handwave the real concerns (or throw in massively improbable solutions like "we just need to change society", the ultimate universal solvent of non-practical discussions).

Considering CCP owns White Wolf[1], wouldn't it be better to compare it to Kindred: the Embraced?

[1] - Yes, I know about Onyx Path, and Rich and Eddy and everything, let's keep it simple; ruleslight as it were.

Yes. It will be hard. You are talking about becoming a gatekeeper of quality and trust. There should not be a short cut to make it easy.

That's kind of the point.

Now that this is a fairly old Slashdot post, I'll toss in a quick thank you for the information.

Beyond the many parents who have chimed in, I'd be running in the front if my wife were on the plane.

I've been in situations like that. And I've run into some really bad things. It's a powerful instinct. Sure your life is valuable: but if you're living it right, it isn't the most valuable thing in your care.

I wonder how this will eventually change the topology of the net. Is Google implementing a new Tier-1 network down the center of the US?

Pure speculation, as I have zero idea what their backend in these cities look like. But I'm hoping by tossing it out, I'll have either confirmation or a fast assessment that it isn't likely.

Right, that's how I'm viewing this. I could certainly have the wrong context here (which would change my view). Opportunist replied to my post saying "if it wasn't a clerk, and instead a bank manager" (paraphrased). No, I still wouldn't care if a branch manager was saying stupid things, even related to finance. There are between five thousand and six thousand bank managers at Bank of America. Some of them are going to say things on their private social media that doesn't jibe with BoA policies. That should not be surprising: that should be assumed. Knowing a bit about the finance industry, I wouldn't care if it was a vice-president: there are a ton of those at every bank as well.

I do think that they needed to put out a notice, "He doesn't speak for Microsoft", but that's only because it was being picked up as if he was doing so. Which is disingenuous of the media (including anybody on social media who should have known better).