Well that does add some pretty incriminating context.

I am guessing the people who brought him up on charges have never actually read a science textbook. Sure its a little winded and takes a while to get to it, but by reading the average science textbook from jr high and above you can figure out how to create some pretty dangerous chemical reactions that should scale fairly well. Knowing about something and being jailed for it it thought crime. Trying to set limits on the human condition of curiosity and interest could pave the path of a dangerous road.

It would probably be better if the focused their energy on closing security holes and doing their best to stop their consumer operating systems from being the low hanging fruit for botnet makers. I have heard than an ounce of prevention is better than a massive security project to remove the ass of a tick or something to that effect.

Go daddy is still a bunch of aholes with questionable hosting practices and one of the worst customer portals focused on upselling rather than delivering services. I moved all my domains from them quite some time ago. Recently they were acquired and they have created artificial dns brownouts to sites experiencing additional queries because they have a boost in traffic. They are using this to sell additional services. If you value your internet service you will move away from them even if they no longer support sopa.

Have they actually had anything to show at CES worth looking at? Seems like throwing good money out to show bad products is a bad idea. It makes sense that they should make better products, but it looks like they are just going to focus on saving money.

I love it when the words stanford and experiment are used in a sentence, it gets so much better when the word prison is also added.

I actually know a guy who wrote a nosql distributed datastore 10 years ago.

Open source screen reader http://live.gnome.org/Orca This package can be used to operate a computer for people who are totally blind, read content etc etc.

XBL has now just caught up to PC gaming in 1995.

There are many applications that do this for people already. I would rather go out of my way to turn this functionality on, rather than go out of my way to turn it off.

It would be nice if OSX was sold and supported as a product separate from their hardware. I am using a macbook right now, the hardware is adaquate but the operating system is the reason I bought it. If apple had a hardware logo certification ala novel, a logo cert that actually meant something I would be more likely to continue using osx as my primary operating system on non apple hardware. Apple hardware has almost completely lost its draw for me. The RMA process is slow and clunky, their corporate hardware support is abysmal and their hardware has one of the highest failure rates (second only to sony vaio laptops) I have ever experienced. Hardly what I would consider worth the premium. On top of that there is the mousing options. For that much money I would expect to have a hardware interface that is intuitive. Removing all mouse buttons from the laptop is the exact opposite direction I was hoping they would take. So far I am unimpressed with this hardware revision. I hope the next iteration of OSX becomes a bigger selling point because the look and feel of the hardware is nowhere near worth the price.