I bet you could help those people quite a bit by selling the computer you're using and donating the proceeds.

We might appreciate it, too...

I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the Torrent protocols, but it seems like this group would either need to be in one of two groups:
A.) Connect to a swarm as a "spectator" not uploading or downloading any data.
B.) Connect to the swarm and actively upload/download.

If A., it seems like it would be hard to prove that any IP logged as participating in the swarm is actively engaged in any malicious behavior. If B., aren't they (the group) guilty of the same crimes of which they're accusing these other people?

I guess I just don't see how they could assure the courts of a crime being committed without having to participate in the exact same action in order to prove it.

I guess most people aren't worried about incontinence AND sperm production, but I would not want a wireless transmitter hosted that close to my reproductive factories...

Agreed. I thought the black hole would envelop Earth much more quickly than this.

I think you're committing the same sin of which you're accusing the author, just on the opposite side of the pendulum.

Saying that all DRBMSs won't "cut it" for modern applications in any domain is pretty narrow-minded. It seems like a simple rule of thumb to me: put relational data in an RDBMS, put key-value data in a Key-Value DB...

As an aside, having worked on the Information Retrieval side of bioinformatics for the past few years, I've found that the complex side of bioinformatics is generally in the computation, not the retrieval. I've been well-suited by a single RDBMS server up to this point, though I have played around with MemCached for a couple of web apps.

"Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and all nations have been ashamed of them."
- G.K. Chesterton

Even in Javascript you have the opportunity of embedding timing data from the Key Press events into the typing data.

Regarding the visibility of typing patterns, any in-browser chat/forum will likely use Javascript on the client side. JS provides access to the Key Up and Key Down events in text boxes; adding time stamps to those events is trivial. And I agree that being a 40 year old man doesn't make you a pedophile, but I think, probabilistically, that being a 40 year old man in a "Teenz Only!!1!" chatroom may rightfully raise a flag or two.

'Gives a whole new meaning to "Freudian slip."

SRWare Iron is a solution to your Chrome privacy concerns - http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

It's a build of Chrome without all the privacy-infringing "features."

I've been waiting for years for someone to get Compositing working on >2 monitors. Unfortunately, all of the solutions mentioned involving Compiz are off-limits to anyone with more than two monitors.

But fishing line is a big problem in protecting marine animals; it seems like intentionally stranding hundreds of yards of the stuff might have some negative impacts on the surrounding aquatic life.

Their site states "300 degrees" (F?).

Ironically, they also sell a safe into which you can put your super-durable DVDs. They list as one of the justifications:
"Fire. The DVD can withstand temperatures as high as 300 degrees. Unless you can make sure that your house doesn't burn down at more than 300 degrees, you need the DVD Vault."

Agreed. I was shocked they were going to sequence that many genomes. The article is also tagged "gene expression." This research has nothing to do with sequencing or gene expression analysis; just analyzing one-nucleotide mutations in the genome.

"Every man speaks of public opinion and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opnion. Every man makes his contribution negative under the erroneous impression the the next man's contribution is positive. Every man surrenders his fancy to a general tone which is itself a surrender." G.K. Chesterton.