Well then! :) In Holland, often the budgets for stuff like this is too small to do anything significant so I think it's nice that they found a serious sponsor for once and get some attention. Besides, it's a good subject. I can't wait for electric vehicles to become a regular phenomena.. Never gonna buy a car or motorcycle on gas again.

If you watch the races and follow the endless preparations you'll see that it's not just high tech vs high tech. It's just as much about creativity, timing, endless preparation, testing, determination, planning, blood sweat and tear and plain ol' elbow grease.

Being Dutch, I feel a little proud that our tiny country has come so far in these races, between all those high-tech equipped teams :)

Home computers were only just there; the ZX Spectrum was introduced in 1982, the Commodore 64 in '83. Personal computers existed since 1975 but were way too expensive for most. There were only about 200 Apple II's (1976) sold. The original Macintosh from '84 costed $2.500, a lot of money in the eighties.

Sure, sales took off in '84 but for programmers to spawn it takes time to learn to work with computers and to program. In 1984, personal computers just started to spread among the population, from *zero*. All together, if you leave out home computer programmers, I think there were very little programmers around in 1984 compared to now and most of them were just leaving the punch card era. The remaining programmers worked with VAX alike computers that didn't use color, mice or sound.

or should we conclude 'just as reliable'?

were there in 1984 anyway?

Sure, but the article is about 'unfriending' and finding out why unfriended you and why. If the spouse didn't notice it's the new lover that is allowed as a 'friend', it's unlikely that this spouse will know who this person is. So if this new lover unfriends the spouse, not much will become clear.

You have a point that this is a possible, even commonly used strategy. For example, there is a old guy who hates my guts. I'm fairly sure we follows me on youTube, because I have posted a video of him flying way to low over our house. Then again, it's still unlikely that he will ever 'unfollow' me.

Agreed, but that's something you already know. You don't need the online tools from the article to figure it out.

.. doesn't 'friend' you on Facebook in the first place.

Flash is not that 'closed'. Anyone may generated .swf files without paying Adobe. They are not very popular but alternatives exist. I remember a certain Ming project http://www.libming.org/

I'm sorry but I live in Europe and these fugures seem quite optimistic, to put it mildly. Do you have data to back this up?

Have it your way but I would bet on Google.

Darn! [skims the article] Wait a minute, I'm talking about page hits, not what investors think it's worth.