Are we getting .blog yet? Actually that fad's kind of gone and Facebook is the new blog, so maybe .social . How long can these TLDs be?

It's not dead as long as people keep posting about it. Maybe people should LET IT DIE (emphasis added for emphasis) rather than continuing this ghost's existence. Not doing so is the only reason why this didn't fade away years ago, and it's the only reason why it's still being mentioned. It will never release. This is not your religion. You do not need to believe in this fantasy.

Perhaps I'm irritated more than I ought to be, but really, just let it die already. Please? I shall now go add the word Duke to FeedRinse and leave you good sirs & ma'ams (...?) to what I hope is a good day.

After the monumental amount of seriously obese people on OkCupid and other dating sites I seriously considered creating a dating site identical to this BeautifulPeople. While it's a shame that the idea has already been done (of course), it's good to see that the idea would have been a successful one.

Then there was the bait and switch that I had on OkCupid... some people have a very loose definition of "athletic". Anyway, I fully support the idea behind this particular dating website.

As of the time of this posting it's sleeting, and we face the prospect of 30+ MPH winds along with ~6 inches of snow.

On the subject of a battery back up system for a house I have to say, "Duh, I wish it would have been done sooner." It's a little unpleasant to think that my evening could be a long, cold night with howling winds and sleets of ice.

..but hey, maybe we'll get lucky.

Of course the safety of the batteries is a concern, but right now I just wish this would have been standard a long time ago. Heck, solar roofs and possibly wind power should have been standard a long time ago (reducing, not eliminating, the reliance on a public power system), but that's a whole other rant.

I kind of like the idea of having an avatar that's similar to me. Weight, muscle, general appearance, and how the world could affect the avatar are all interesting idea.

The patent also mentions pedometers and similar tools. Wii Fit was a start, but a system such as this one could encourage real-world exercising in order to see changes in your avatar and even to receive certain Achievements. Now those would be some achievements to show off. :) The game could theoretically guide the person toward a healthy amount of weight loss, which is monitored by the tools (eg; a Wii Fit board rip off, a pedometer, and so on). This is an ideal situation that assumes that no cheating is taking place.

I could see such a game asking about asthma (or the like), but it clearly goes too far when talking about pulling in medical records. There are some obvious reasons for considerable concern, but there is also some interesting potential here.

Right. Exactly. Personally I used to be anti-Ad Block Plus (I may have posted such a comment here quite a long time ago, actually). Even I broke down and got ABP eventually.

It's not that I didn't try, it's just that it became more and more laborious to individually block the offending ads. Obvious cycle is obvious, right? People use ad block, causing services turn to the irritating ads in some desperate act thus causing more people to begin using ad blockers. The problem is that ABP is a nuke, and I can't be arsed to go individually picking through them anymore.

On the bright side I've found that Element Hiding Helper is useful for blocking "features" of a website that aren't ads but that I find to be irritating or useless (I'm looking at you, Youtube).

Chrome is a fine browser in so far as performance (aside from that whole tracking thing). I'd use it - or more likely SRWare Iron - if it had ABP and X-Marks, and preferably some anti-tracking add-ons as well.

Ironkey is the first thing that came to mind as well. It has all of the tools that fill the requirements of the OP, and it has an automatic back up service.

The alternative is to do what I do, but it's not as user friendly. I have True Crypt on my USB stick along with, of course, a TC volume that contains all of the real data. In my case it's just a bunch of class work, but I suppose you could also put a small program in there that saves passwords. Granted, you would need to go through the trouble of starting TC, mounting the volume, and then loading your program that saves passwords. Frankly an Iron Key would be significantly more convenient as IIRC it has a password saving utility.

By the by, I keep my class work encrypted because I don't need to get nailed for "plagiarism" because some sod found my key and turned in my work (with their name on it) before I do. Improbable, but possible.

Actually I don't think that the test is irrelevant at all. There was an experiment with a group of college students to simulate the effects of being in jail. Both the guards and the "prisoners" were all volunteers, but the experiment degenerated so far that the experiment had to be stopped. You can read about it here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment but the gist is that both parties fell so far into their roles that there were abuses and psychological problems.

Given the correct setting a test such as this one to simulate the trip to mars would work wonders. I'm a space nut AND I'm a psychology major, and I for one would LOVE to take part in this experiment.

I agree completely. The real issue here is this person's inability to stay away from this Dana person. This shows a clear inability for the stalker to leave things alone, and that's the real issue here. What we don't know are the details behind the restraining order that may complicate things, but it is what it is.

One positive thing that could come out of this news piece is that others can take notice of the behavior and its repercussions. Other than that it's kind of a pointless buzzword article, in my opinion.

I was one of the people who had a nightmare of an experience with Vista. I still use it today and it is significantly better than what it was on launch day, but at the time it was the worse thing to ever happen to my computer. The system froze while the O/S was loading (at the "progress bar" animation, before seeing the login screen). It crashed. It blue screened. It required hours stacked on top of hours just to get to the desktop.

This was on the same hardware that I'm running today with the exception of my 3D card.

My problems were directly related with Vista's lack of compatibility with my hardware. Had I done more research I probably could have avoided the huge headache by discovering the incompatibilities and not purchasing the O/S. That's just the way that it goes. I didn't do the research because my hardware is pretty standard and I made the mistake of assuming that it would work.

It was great for some. For others such as myself it was a nightmare. These days Vista runs fine, although it consumes a huge amount of resources to sit around and "do nothing" (preloading of apps and the like, I know, I know).

"and we... have tried them all." - She looks like she's about to cry when she says this. What did they do to these people!?

I have to agree with fred here about selectively displaying ads. There was a time in the somewhat distant past that I publicly denounced Ad Block Plus as "evil" and stated that it was not a big deal to show certain types of advertisements (eg; Google text ads). As I'm sure you already know, I now run ABP and I have for quite some time.

It's like Fred here is saying. The ads simply became worse and worse. This lead to installing ABP, which I know is a primary reason why the ads became worse in the first place. Vicious cycle there. Originally I selectively allowed certain types of ads, but you know, I got sick of baby sitting. I became cynical, "Why should I have to baby sit these websites when all they have to do is stop using the trashy ads?" Now it's just "on" and stays that way.

All of this yammering about the plugin and not ONE place to actually get it from. Concept is concept. Nothing more until I can actually install the damn thing (without compiling source, if that's even available, because like bloody hell I'm going to get some friend on Facebook to compile source code).

I completely agree with Anonymous Coward's comments. I, too, remember the offensive and blatantly ignorant comments from the people at Mozilla, especially in regards to multithreading Firefox. Personally I find it very unfortunate that Slashdot and other technology sites are reporting on this sudden change of heart without bringing up Mozilla's past behavior. It is biased reporting and paints Firefox & Mozilla in a far too positive light.

Also, I was unaware that Chrome now has extension support. I know that it has rudimentary Greasemonkey support but that's far from full extension support, and from what I can find (via Google, of course, heh) about it online is that extension support is still in the testing phase.

While the 3.5 upgrade is a welcomed improvement it is still not Chrome. If / when Chrome actually gets full extension support I will be switching browsers. I said that when Chrome launched, assuming that I can get AdBlock and Foxmarks, I would gladly change browsers and I see nothing here to change my mind.

Granted, I may do so through SRWare Iron rather than Chrome itself.