The blogs are my biggest problem with Google. If I'm searching for something technology or video game related and my search query happens to resemble an old news headline or phrase, I end up with thousands of blogs repeating the exact same story with slightly rearranged headlines. And god help you if your search phrase is part of some song lyric. Why do that many lyrics websites even exist?

From the car's website:

"How about automated steering, or some kind of ‘fly-by-wire’ computer stabilisation? No – the rules do not allow it, and quite right too in my opinion. In order to be a land vehicle in LSR terms, the FIA rules require that the vehicle is ‘wholly and continuously controlled by the driver’. Even if the rules did allow for a computer system, should we really be running a car that needs a computer (which will be untested in this prototype vehicle) to keep it safe?"

Kind of crazy that a team developing an open-source supersonic car is afraid of using computer control assistance methods that have been around for decades!

Because we need more UI changes for the sake of UI changes. In Firefox 6/Chrome 14 tabs on the side will be the new "thing". Firefox 7 will move the URL window onto the scroll bar to gain another 12 pixels of vertical space, since nobody actually uses the URL bar. By January 2012 Firefox 14 will have moved the Firefox button on top of the minimize/maximize/close buttons since Steve Jobs says nobody runs programs in windows anyway. By March 2014, we will have come in a full circle and both Firefox 65536 and Chrome infinity will both have tabs back below the address bar and old school square IE6 navigation buttons.

Most of us just call it "socializing" and being part of a "community"

I'd guess that most of the edits at this point are on user talk pages and other partially hidden areas supporting the wiki-bureaucracy. Just based on looking at highly active users' contributions, there tends to be a few article edits for hundreds of edits to talk pages and arbitration pages and user pages that almost nobody ever sees.

And of course, userboxes. Userbox edits probably make up the rest of them

I realize slashdot is into the whole libertarian dog eat dog business thing, but it's really in Groupon's best interest to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen, in particular when they're dealing with so many smaller businesses that might not have all that much expertise and probably aren't totally familiar with the business model. Yeah, the guy shouldn't have done the deal in the first place, but he didn't know what he was getting into and it looks really bad for Groupon to be running their own customers out of business (and it's a pretty terrible long term strategy)

Goddamn. Maybe he should try deleting some donuts from his diet before he goes off deleting everyone's video games articles.

'This will affect how enterprises plan their services... whether they host their own services or whether they use cloud vendors,' Labovitz says. 'The enterprise needs to shift its thinking in terms of [service level agreements] and the way it measures, monitors and secures its networks. That all used to be focused on connectivity, but now it needs to be focused on content.'"

I read this through 3 times and I'm still pretty sure it doesn't mean anything at all

I feel like this would totally destroy rhythm based games and fighting games where even 30 or 40 ms lag is noticeable to the average player because of the way the timing works. Aiming in shooting games would probably feel too weird to be very enjoyable.

Imagine some sort of cloud gaming future in like 2050 where vast swaths of game genres have been killed off by the lag inherent to the game systems, and people play nothing but slow paced adventure and puzzle games!

The way units are generally written out "10 pounds kilograms" sounds like you are stating 10 lbs*kg which doesn't make any sense. The problem with these search engine comparisons is that the people reviewing htem usually have extremely narrow ideas of the results they want while these search engines are built for a very wide audience. I remember when there was an article about Cuil and the reviewer was pissed because the first result was about the United States mint and not the leaf.

You can do some totally awesome things with smoke rings if you rig up a smoke ring maker to a signal generator or a computer and then define various smoke ring generating waveforms/pulses. You end up mixing fluids and electrical/circuits and smoking into one project.

I have no idea what smoke rings are relevant to however.