And where is Bell Labs now? Exactly.

The German project is for hand shredded papers. Reconstructing machine cross-cut shredded papers is a vastly more difficult problem.

Except that any router passing your packets might choose to re-fragment or recombine your packets, destroying your message.

Wholly metric, eh? What are your speed limits defined in? MPH. What do you report your weight in? Stone. What do you buy your beer in? Pints.

Sorry, until you've fully converted to metric your argument is a bit hollow.

He was already pretty rich when he left Microsoft and founded Valve with his own money.

It's not the bridge as much as the district that's running a deficit. The bridge tolls help to subsidize public transit (buses and ferries), so I imagine that's the reason they're losing money.

Not only that, but this paper seems to assume a fiber optic cable exists that runs straight from one exchange to the other. In reality, depending on where the relevant cables are and how the traffic is routed, a very different set of locations are optimal.

Yes, but the F1 car also costs many millions of dollars. I don't think it's as easy as you make it seem, especially for a car they want to sell for $20k.

Big advantages for me outside of isolating crashes:

1. Isolating misbehaving webpages from the rest of the browser. In Firefox, runaway Javascript on one tab can slow down or freeze other tabs or the whole browser.

2. Solve the memory leak from fragmentation problem. Closing tabs in Firefox often doesn't decrease the amount of memory consumed.

Agreed. They are working on multiprocess, it's called Electrolysis. It's very quiet, so I imagine they're behind schedule. It's also my impression that it's a very small team.

Amen. Life in the 50's and 60's was awesome. The Vietnam War was great. So was keeping blacks from voting, and women in the kitchen. McCarthyism, also wonderful.

Companies were so good then. Like the tobacco industry. They made such great products, and did so much for the community. No bullshit at all.

Rose colored glasses much?

Yes, but the iPhone jailbreak: a PDF vulnerability that lead to arbitrary code execution. Preview.app may not be as safe as you think.

Please name the trend-setting new products created at Microsoft before Ballmer took the helm. I can only think of one: Microsoft Bob.

Or, you know, you could fill the freighter with cheap fertilizer and diesel, and run it into the Brooklyn Bridge or the Statue of Liberty. Why use such a complicated attack when a much simpler one is just as effective?

For those interested, the Planet Money piece is here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103657301