The abstract says that saccharin was tested. That's a very easy to get substance.

Some people don't like having their porn search history attached to their account.

I'm pretty sure this is a feature, not censorship.

Imagine being at work and searching for something like "white power cord" or something. Now, yes, you could go to Google Shopping to search for it, or turn off Instant if you're going to be searching for things like that, but most people won't, and do you really want your company seeing you search for "white power?"

As an example, I'm going to be raising some chickens in a while so I was looking up "how to test for salmonella." The instant search suggestion when I typed the "s" in "salmonella" was "STDs." I'd rather not be seen searching for *that* at work.

It just makes sense that Google would avoid doing things that'll trip up your company's web filters if you're searching for innocuous things that temporarily turn less innocuous due to Google's own features and default settings.

Need to find Osama bin Laden? There's an app for that.

Correct. Use I2P (with I2PSnark) instead. The entire torrent stays on the mixnet. It works better because it doesn't rely on exit nodes, only relays, and more people are willing to run relays.

Even in '98 I was able to get Slackware on 9 3.5" floppies IIRC.

Maybe you typed "Fnord" instead? :)

I do not think this [phrase] means what you think it means.

Idea/prediction markets are actually a hotbed of research, and there are several different theories about what could've happened with the terror attack thing. In any case, it was less about specific terror attacks and more about stability indexes for different parts of the world, etc.

By the way, there's awesome open source software under active development for running your own prediction markets and experiments with prediction markets.

Man, Tech.coop looks awesome. Thanks for the suggestion, I might join it shortly!