You can always game the system. Remember search engines will only find your name if it is indexed. So all you need to do is create a bunch of websites and pages about yourself that are clean and sanitized as per your requirements on websites like LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace/Twitter, and some interesting blog sites that have high rankings as per ranking systems and high traffic such as Alexa (probably). Perform some search engine optimization on your webpages and profiles such that these sites come in the first page and textfiles.com is pushed back 2-3 pages. No one goes beyond the first page if they find the main stuff in the first few links. Remember that's why Google gave the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.

Of course, if someone wants to they can find every detail on you, but you can divert them intelligently by using the internet. Think it over.

Or your future boss can outsource it to some peanut-salaried person in Eastern Europe or Asia or Latin America or Nigeria.

Nobody likes pissing in their own pool.

Maybe they were running Windows Vista ?

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NEZ's wife thought "SEX@Home" not "SETI@Home", unlike NEZ.

Sorry to remind you that M&As mostly for huge corporations such as Oracle are handled by the likes of Goldman Sachs and their brethren, who as we all know are the quintessential causes of the financial crises (yes, plural) of today. To think that they knew beyond their own arrogance is to ignore recent history!

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They run a very minimal type of browser, and do not have extensions, so you're point here is not valid. Blackberry and/or Android are full fledged operating systems where sandboxing is easily implemented whereas browser is just an application and sandboxing an extension while still giving it access to every web page's content is a little harder to implement.

Well, Yasser Arafat got one didn't he. So why not Theo ! After all he and his team did build OpenSSH which you use in Linux.

Well then we should nominate Theo de Raadt for it instead.

The real trouble is that most extensions are in javascript and javascript is not a language that emphasises security. The fact that there is no way to perform a "use strict;" (as in Perl) is for starters a way to get access to all the other global variables in other scripts.

I have written a Firefox extension, and the Mozilla Developer API allows you to load any script at runtime, and also gives access to all the possible extensions that are installed, thus giving you an idea of where they can be located on the disk, and then loading those files and manipulating the content on the fly. Because of the lack of strictness in javascript as a language, if a global variable XYZ is in one script, it can be manipulated by any other script as well. Fundamentally it is a problem with Javascript and not with the Mozilla API. The API is excellent and allows you to do a lot of things. Any solution to sandbox each extension will just lead to eventual bloat.

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That's because SourceForget.net is not pure .NET!

Yes, as we can see very well in the financial industry today. "Algorithms" and complex "trading strategies" implemented without understanding the fundamentals.

1. Netscape wasn't a public company as well run as Google is today.
2. Underhanded moves can be pulled by anyone, and Google is as smart as if not smarter than MSFT, which still has a lot of old blood from the 80s running the show.
3. Microsoft could also end up trying all the time to play catch up to Google, just like how Linux Desktop is touted as always(not my opinion) playing catch up to Windows or how Windows plays catch up to OSX and still ends up shabby or how Mono plays catch up to Microsoft C#.

The whole bing(TM) backronym of Bing Is Not Google, can also mean that it can never be as good as Google.