Er... s/yahoo/ebay/ ; s/Per/Perl/. Stupid pre-caffeination-time aka mornings.

I think ebay has backed them financially (like own 25% of Craigslist), but otherwise have nothing to do with them. I suspect yahoo has plenty of Per and certainly lots of other tech, maybe they should match the donation :)

or: but I did not shoot the sysadmin

Someone should tell him about the n900 w/ Maemo5. Now THERE'S a good OS. Not quite as good as pure debian... but much better than Android. Unless of course Linus WANTS to port gitk (or any other GUI tool) to the Android GUI library instead of well... just _running_ it.

Either your sarcastic-meter is wrong, or I agree with you completely!

I googled the "new" First Click Free program and see references to it from 2007! (probably before that). So that part has been around a long time. So what is actually new? Well since the BBC doesn't post their sources because they are old-media, here is the 5 per day feature in the First Click Free program announcement. So the loophole that they are closing is being able to do the first-click over and over all day (defeatable the same way other tracking mechanisms are defeatable, i.e. not logging in, disabling cookies, etc). I didn't find that to be clear from the summary or TFA.

Though it probably took the scientists a long time to do this study, I bet it took google earth's sources even longer to only include images of cows pointing northward!