I use NoScript - I'm not an idiot :-) But instead of Adblock, I've been using Proxomitron with a pretty detailed blocklist file for many years (at work and home). Perhaps not as good as Adblock, but useful for filtering *all* my HTTP connections from any application (even though I use Firefox 99.9% of the time) and auto-supplying my username/password to the firewall proxy at work and dynamically switching between proxies when necessary. It also allow me to funnel remote systems through it.

If it can keep them from catching fire, can't come soon enough for Boeing and their 787s.

I fear there will be fewer and fewer people to argue with and it won't be a good thing.

Next it'll be all the Dolphins, and it won't be so funny then.

In addition, they can be temporarily unavailable. Once, I had to get fingerprinted for employment and it took three visits because I had been working around the house and my fingers had gotten chewed up a little and my fingerprints were unusable until they healed.

I'd hate to be locked out of my system/accounts because I had been cleaning the house or working in the yard that day...

Once you're automatically logged into ALL your accounts at the same time, Google (and other sites) have a much wider pool of available data upon which to link and troll information about you. For example, have you checked your Twitter account settings recently? Twitter automatically tries to connect to your Facebook account - even if you don't have one, which I don't (that I know of anyway). (Damn Twitter panel just sits there with its icon swirling.)

Personally, I prefer to only logon to sites as-needed.

And probably expensive. Why offer a one-time cure when you can offer a life-time treatment - he said cynically.

TFA says grasses might be via source material - "anything fast growing" - perhaps clippings from cutting all our lawns?

Thanks for the encouraging words.

I'm not a shut-in, but have always been rather solitary and okay with it. All of my long-term friends live far away, with the nearest about 120 miles away. My wife was a teacher and had lots of friends, but I was okay hanging with just her for most of the time. I can keep busy on my own, most of the time. I've got home improvements, whenever I get the enthusiasm for that, and have 4 computers at home w/Windows and Linux - one is my MythTV system. I've live in the same city since 1981 and the same house since 1993. I live in a tourist town in Virginia and have (and do) see the things worth seeing, within reason... I'm not into traveling by myself, don't really see the point w/o someone to share it with and I'm not really interested in going out to get laid - dating/sex is (was) fun, but over-rated unless with the right person. I'm not interested in being with just anyone.

Basically, I'm slowly getting my personal shit in order, while I figure things out. I had a *really* good relationship with my wife and she was a wonderful person. She wanted me to find someone else and I promised her I would at least consider it, but she's a tough act to follow and I'm not interested in anything less. I'm not hung up on my past, but am defined by it.

On a really personal note. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died literally in my arms seven weeks later. I heard her last breath and felt her last heart beat. That gave me a lot of perspective on a lot of things - not all of it/them good. The seventh anniversary of her death was Sunday, January 13, 2013 @ 3:00pm so this week isn't good for me.

My wife died in 2006 when I was 42; we were together for 20 years. We lived responsibly, partly because she was 19 years older than me and would retire way before me, so I'm debt-free and don't need to work (ever again), but do because I haven't yet figured out what I want to do with my self/life and I'd be bored otherwise. My house is quiet and lonely enough on the weekends as it is, I don't need that 24/7.

Some things are not so simple...

You just defined Verizon's relationship with its customers.

Don't worry, I'm sure Monster will be selling gold-plated versions of these, at a reasonable price, soon.

I wouldn't be surprised if the university used it as a learning experience for some students. And the professor/tester probably got paid to supervise/test ...

You would think, but read this about the Interdrive crank that uses actual springs to see an explanation of why this logic doesn't work: "for energy stored in the springs, you wind up doing the work twice: once to compress the spring, then again later while you fight against the spring as it expands." I imagine material compression would similar issues.

Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, WSJ OpEd page ...
[ Okay, mainly the very first one, but I'm *trying* to be fair and balanced - I mean "objective". :-) ]