Damnit, need to actually use the preview button. Should have been "I'll have your non-mouse using hand!"

I submit we go back to fiefdoms. You can all be my lowly Farmville peasants and don't even consider taking any of my internet potatoes so you can "feed your family", non-mouse using hand!

Agreed. There were some true gems in this there though:
1) This guy is the 29th ranked Facebook user. - WTF does that mean? 60% of the time he works every time.
2) Zynga is worth $12 billion. - Maybe in Zimbabwean dollars.
3) "Rutkowski asked Schmidt what Google was doing with “Web 3.0” and Schmidt replied Web 2.0 was just a marketing term and that he was “the inventor” of Web 3.0." - I'm pretty sure he got trolled by Schmidt.

Taking a quick peek at the Founder Institute's web page it looks like the type of business Tom Cruise was running in Magnolia. This is getting filed in my "Check these asshats predictions!" folder to be opened in 2015.

Do you worry the Australian government will use that leverage to control the Internet more than they already do? I remember there being stories about them blocking a lot of websites and wanting to censor various things. Perhaps, having good access with good crypto with Tor or other routing mechanisms will outweigh any pestering they try to do. Who would run/administer the actual network?

Shit, replied to the wrong comment...abort abort abort!

Do you worry the Australian government will use that leverage to control the Internet more than they already do? I remember there being stories about them blocking a lot of websites and wanting to censor various things.

To the references Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/11/china-us-human-rights-double-standards/print
To the Chinese report: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/us/2011-04/11/content_12303177.htm

Nice to see FARS News is taking some cues from the highest form of American journalism. I always knew that deep down they were jealous and wanted to be just like us. Kudos to you FARS News!

Seems to hold true on both ends of the wire: Hackers Pay 43 cents per Hijacked Mac

In the Youtube video posted above the colonel does not mention stealth as an inherent feature of the aircraft. He did, however, mention its jamming capability. He also said the jammer is effective against "legacy" US radar.

Your co-workers can definitely help out with this one. You know those tricks that people use to figure their stage/porn name, take your middle name and the street you grew up on, combine it, and voila, instant new name! Go to each workstation and do that with the person that is sitting there, instant workstation name!

It seems the ban applies to the press (ie. the media) that are covering the game. Those people actually are entering into a legally binding contract when they enter the stadium and begin covering the game. Much needed clarification is given by a Nashville Is Talking article with updates, their producer did what Slashdot should have done about 7 hours ago and actually read the f'in policy. Here is the actual Southeastern Conference Media Credentials EULA thinger.

Well, I guess it would be a 'use tax' evasion. The number of entities who do make proper declarations is higher than you might think when consider B2B transactions. This is from a research paper I wrote last semester:
"Though, business-to-business compliance is estimated to be much higher (Bruce & Fox, 2009). Estimated losses of revenue at the national scale as a result of non-compliance in 2007 are $7.2 billion. Losses are expected to grow by 36.3% to $11.3 billion by 2012 (Bruce & Fox, 2009). "

Bruce, D. & Fox, W.F. (2009) State and Local Government Sales Tax Revenue Losses from Electronic Commerce. Retrieved from http://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/Execitive%20Committee/Previous_meetings/4_13_09/SSTP%20e-commerce%202009%20REV041309.pdf

(there's your bloody citation ;)

There are certainly a lot of factors at work. That said, are there YouTube versions in some of the developing third world or second world countries? I agree that limiting the distribution to subset of countries definitely opens the door for local video sites. Or what about YouTube or Veoh actually expanding to serve the other markets that way the ad model could be better adjusted to serve the local market?