What I'd like to see is more extensive than that: If you log in to a website in tab A, then tab B has no access to that (especially cookies) unless tab B is created off tab A (e.g. Open in New Window), or explicitly authorised.

Do you write:

void foo()
{
String result;
if (...)
result = a;
else (...)
result = b;
else (...)
result = c;
return result;
}

or

void foo()
{
String result;
if (...)
return a;
else (...)
return b;
else (...)
return c;
}

Both are common, but compile to different code. Do you code to 'a procedure should live on a page'? How about 'a procedure should have a purpose'? Return errors or throw exceptions? Return values or modified arguments? Kitchen sink constructors? Getters & setters or fluent builders? There's seven variables without stopping to think, dividing coders 128 ways, and I'm sure you could find another dozen or so, taking it to one-in-a-million level. There's no need to obfuscate...

When you prop up companies and banks that "are too big to fail" it's not really a free market.

It's not really capitalism. The government has interfered in the ownership model, not in the price setting for goods and services.

In fact, the sweet corn market where I live has a bubble every damned year - supply peaks in spring/summer and everyone is selling corn cheap then ... supply plummets and the price goes up

That's not a bubble, it's a glut; a bubble involves speculation.

FTFY.

Get another email account externally, and configure your email server to send all your outgoing email via that account (using POP3/SMTP authentication). Comcast might already provide an email account/server you can use like that...

I expect that most of those poor famous artists and scientists were interested in amassing sufficient wealth, but were unsuccessful; very few people choose to be poor.

Microsoft are simply copying what Apple does. IBM and others are doing it too.

They're all hoping that they can get the tax law changed so that they can repatriate the profits without paying the current tax rate.

You adjust the timetable to match reality. The trains aren't any faster, but the timetable no longer lies.

Yes, Facebook is the hosting platform, just as email once existed within computers and didn't travel between them. We don't yet have a Social Media Transport Protocol that allows peering between providers, but one day we will, and Facebook will follow AOL & CompuServe to the big walled garden in the sky. But, IMHO, that day is not in the near future.

If you're a bank or finance company, borrowing and lending on your own account, then yes, customer funds are liabilities. But stockbrokers, lawyers, accountants, et al. keep their customers' funds in a segregated trust account, and Mt.Gox and all the other exchanges should be following this model.

Solar UV

No. A rubber sheet is a flawed *model* for the shape of spacetime; as an *analogy*, it's still reasonable...

Presumably the latter -- they paid $200M for it in 2009. (Ouch.)

... are too specific. The concept of an Atomic Operation is important; database transactions are just a domain-specific example.