On my Galaxy S, the instant search has yet to register all my keystrokes at a normal typing speed. I have to press the first letter, wait 3-5 seconds for the search to load up, and then continue typing.

I know you were addressing transitions specifically, but the instant search feature is something that's supposed to add to the fluidity, not detract from it. And 1 GHz should be plenty to capture my keystrokes (on a hardware keypad.)

And while pork is an important part of my diet, I can do just fine without it, thank you.

Ah, pretty much the same conclusion NPR came up with. And, coincidentally, they came up with an answer to your question

Discuss different approaches to shuffling and re-ordering a deck of cards. If they can't get excited about that then they don't deserve to be programmers.

Actually, they'll probably just do it the old fashioned way - pull her boyfriend into the bathroom and show him in person.

What laptop thief doesn't put tape over the webcam until wiping the drive? It seems like every week I see a new thief caught by having his picture taken; blocking that would be the first thing I'd do.

Who cares who owns the exit node as long as the same entity doesn't own every other node in the circuit? And as long as you don't transmit any traceable information in plaintext?

What number is that?

I thought the same thing - I expect to see Google shopping results third in product searches just like I expect to see Google image results about 3rd in concrete-noun searches. It's another very specific Google search that's integrated into Google web search. What boggles me is that Scmidt denies it like it's illegal or something. Like you said - it's not "cooking" results. It's integrating services. (Of course, and it's true, "integrating services" has been illegal since the 90s, apparently. Ask Gates about that one.)

Actually, when it comes to disposable radio pop, the labels do almost all the work including writing the music and lyrics and generating the buzz. The "artists" are little more than frontmen. So actually, in many cases, it does make sense to let them keep the rights.

(On the flipside, indie artists truly are artists most of the time and pay their dues, and in turn a lot of the new indie labels let the artists keep the rights to their songs.)

I don't actually know where my congressman's door is, and without the internet I'm not sure I'd be able to find it.

He must have been on some serious shit to be burning in a vacuum.

Amid all these internet-blocking stories I still haven't found an answer to how dictators prevent satellite internet connections, or even if they do. I know how they could block them if they wanted to, but does anyone know how they actually do it? Or if they even bother with it?

You don't seem too familiar with human nature - the average person can't handle excessive freedom, be it economic, political, or software.

And, as everyone knows, Amazon has the demand chain fixed.