False: Linux is not windows, you can give it for free, people wanting windows will have to pay for windows. Linux it's a fair competition, not a free giveaway of the same product.

As somebody working on the remote sensing/mapping/gis field for 10+ years. I tend to agree.

It's a long debate, but clearly the new concept of "paid api" it's confusing.

I perceived gmaps as a free tool in the beginning, but now, as they charge, it's no longer a tool, but a competitor.

Many hi definition data available "freely" on google maps/google earth, it's the result of a private customer paying for that data, and the by some weird agreement between the companies that run the satellites and google, the information ended up "FREE" on google maps.

A real life story:
I paid 250+K for 1 meter imagery (ikonos) for a project that was covered in google maps using old 30m imagery (90's landsat). Months later google has the 1m coverage i ordered and paid for, available for FREE to anyone else.

So i'm not only competing against google, but against people who no longer needs to order a quality work, since now it's there FREE.

Duh! That's certainly UNFAIR.

Oil needs a proper environment to stay as "Oil". When i read "below earth's crust"...well, your conspiracy theory is kind of weak to say the least.

You are implying that you can find Oil in a 300+ Celcius degrees environment, wich is unreal.

Godspeed Dennis.

Not exactly "news", both dd-wrt and truly open source open-wrt has been out outperforming stock firmwares for 5+++ years

Nah we can't call that a creative error page :P

"A hacker could collect a large store of tokens by first setting up a Wi-Fi access point with the same SSID of an unecrypted wireless network....."

OMG REALLY!?

When insecticides and agrochemicals in general got labeled as BIOCIDES, it was the first warning signal that our society was dumbing down at extreme pace.

When the sole mention of uranium or arsenic (in natural state) started to sound alarms for some guys who started to "look for the culprit for that dangerous chemicals to be present in the water...must be the mining industry!!!" [of a remote hydrothermal area and the water in question was surging just meters of a volcanic system]...that day i lost all my hope. Society is stupid...or science has a comunicational problem w/society...or it's just the whole human race is doomed to be stupid forever.

Fear....always fear....do you know a better control tool than fear?

In soviet Russia Speculations from wikipedia issue orders to you

"The Southern Thruway" is a short story by "Julio Cortazar" that depicts the microeconomy and social interaction of a group of people struck in a days long traffic jam in Paris. He wrote it around 1960-1970.

Sometimes reality turns fiction obsolete....

I think the idea is to show that some advances are not money dependent. It's interesting to see a development on the enzyme/protein field, it's encouraging and sounds like it's moving in the right direction.

Not so special, i can count 3 more cases like yours (physicist, mathematician, geologist) in a pretty narrow universe of occurrences (people whom i am intimate enough to know they were/would be diagnosed ADHD if tested)

Yes, an "active" kid means you have to play with him/her, run, jump and do a lot of "kid" stuff.

Some parents want to push "Fast Forward" button to skip that part of parenting. And a ADHD diagnose helps a lot, specially for a generation that have a "pill" to solve every problem.