Strong correlation between the time window and sequence of films in the queue would ID the students.

Thanks for the correction.

On your line to a for film school- NF would notice a group in a zip code or a short distance from one another all selecting the same films- adding external data sources to this should be able to determine if someone is in school and if so what classes they are taking (see the ability to tie movie reviews to facebook data sets).
Further, the longer someone rents from NF the larger the dataset is, so a more complete idea of what the person likes and dislikes should pop out, and something like a film school course rentals would become noise.

Actually, from a movie studio's point of view, I'd want to data mine the NF data set to see what types of movies actually do well, cross broad demographics, and so on, and then make the crappy movies based on that criteria.
I'm sure the investors would demand that.

But, now depending on your movie selections a good system will be able to defer those bits of information.
Data leakage happens; just computers made it easier to do the grunt work.

Tim,

Please read the story yourself;
It's not Firefox that Vista tries to change but IE8. Google's toolbar caught the action in IE8 and alerted him to the change. He then said that there was no alert option offered in Firefox's Google toolbar.

Try a local gym, take a group class and start off by trying to memorize everyone's name in the class. From there, just start talking with people and making friends, give them your Facebook profile (if you have one), and start going to social gatherings.

I would also suggest a local bar- regardless if you drink or not (and if you do, I strongly suggest joining the gym to burn off the extra calories that you will be consuming). Some bars have a vibe about them that bring out the eccentrics- find one and try it out. (I can think of a few here in Boston where half of the people on a Saturday afternoon are reading books along with their beers; or talking philosophy, glass blowing, and IT security).

My final thoughts are: Library - volunteer your IT skills (plus Library girls are cute & hot); join a museum and see if they have singles night (always great).

Also, don't be afraid to make a few guy friends. They can be great wingmen and people to talk to about bad dates / breakups.

One of my friends from college was a game tester for Sega back in the day (still in the biz). I remember the conversation about the oddest stuff he saw during his tenure and his response was "Barney (for the Megadrive / Genesis) would self play" if there was no input from the user after a minute or so.

I wonder if that prior art is listed?

Fueldump, with two trick jumps, 2m23s.

Now, what I really want is ET to be updated so it can take use of the multi-core CPUs that I have and not bog down with large open spaces.

With Roman Numerals.

Also having grown up in Morgantown, I can say that the student body did use it, specially those who lived at the tower dorms and had classes downtown or who where just to lazy to walk to the Engineering school nearby.

Also, what do you mean by the inflexibility of trains? the PRT would send a car to where you'd want to go directly, where as a train has fixed stops. Yes, the PRT is on a limited track, but it covered the campus well enough, plus down town. On the plus side you didn't have to deal with parking, which as anyone knows who's been to Morgantown, the parking just plain sucks (even worse than Boston or New York).

Actually, the major problem with the US is distance.
Japan is the size of California, France is 4/5th the size of Texas (size of France / size of Texas).
We've spread out- look at the cities of Asia and Europe- fairly tight; but they too have the same problem of broadband out in the country side.

That said, there still is no excuse for the crappy service that we live with, and the competition should be encouraged by ending excursively.