With investment proceeds inherently uncertain, in a defined benefit scheme (ie where the pension is agreed up front and not directly related to the amount contributed nor the returns) someone always gets screwed. Its usually the taxpayer as the schemes are usually too generous, but sometimes its the employee.

Nice link!

I've not followed this story in detail, but one thing which could explain why the brakes do not counteract the engine is if they were initially applied gently - over a period of time the brakes balance the engine acceleration until the brakes overheat and become ineffective. At that point, stomping on the brakes does not help and you crash. If you have a stuck throttle and can't get the engine off/in neutral/disengage clutch/etc then apply the brakes hard and you will stop promptly.

Its not just you. The +5 child post is only visible if the parent is not abbreviated. I want to see ALL posts, with low-rated posted abbreviated, as per my comment settings. I've tried to be open to change, but I am really starting to dislike the recent 'upgrade'!

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As the page is slashdotted, I just wanted to post how it is done here:

For GMail, he added an image to his own GMail account, which he set to "visible for everyone". On his own site he added an invisible img and tries to access the image in his GMail account. He then triggers a javascript function depending on the outcome of the img inclusion (onload or onerror), so he can make the decision, if the visitor of his website is logged in to GMail.

For Facebook, Twitter and Digg he uses http status codes. He tries to access some URL (https://www.facebook.com/imike3) via javascript and depending on the status code he gets, he can decide whether you are logged in or not. This attack doesn't work with IE or Opera, because they do not trigger the onload/onerror events when receiving invalid js.

Spot on about Android being best OS with any real future. Sadly, it is clear that Nokia is not going to give Meego more than token support and will continue its doomed attempts to turn Symbian into a usable modern smartphone OS. Android does have Google 'lock-in', but it is much more 'gentle' and avoidable than with any other platform. For example, Android is oriented to using Google services, but with minimal effort you can get around this and you know Google won't sue or harass you if you do.

I'd love to see Nokia push Meego forward and offer great smartphones. But sadly I think they will give it minimal resources and continue to push symbian instead. Their market share will continue to reduce as good phones like N8 are dragged down by the poor UI and limited apps base for symbian.

+1 informative, thanks

Fair points. Wave may indeed be successfully used in collaboration products like Pulse, and that would be good. But for me that would still be a very disappointing outcome and is what I had in mind when I wrote 'languishing in obscurity'. The great promise and potential, which sadly won't be fulfilled, was for collaboration and communication across broader communities beyond one company or group of friends.

I agree the implementation was lousy. Unfortunately, now that Google isn't backing wave, fixing the implementation will not prevent wave from languishing in obscurity. By its nature wave is only useful if many of the people you know or work with are signed up. Open source can fix the implementation, but its lousy at marketing.

Spot on. If IPv6 had a practical upgrade path I would have implemented it in my business networks and on our websites. But it doesn't. For those of us who have ip4s for our websites and offices IPv6 is all pain and no gain.