That's market cap for Facebook and purchase price for Tumblr, so that is "per user" (for the lifetime of the user/company).

I like your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Or whatever.

A quick googling shows that both the Facebook and Twitter API support deleting. I'm tempted to build this.

Looking at figures for Facebook and and Tumblr, it seems somewhere between $5 to $20 per user is a ballpark figure.

- uploads possible without registration
- the bare minimum of logs saved
- after a complaint they keep files online for an "inspection period" of 14 days
- company in Hong Kong and registered in South America... for what reason but make lawsuits more difficult?

Don't get me wrong, I applaud their efforts. But this doesn't look legit, it looks like "let's make lawsuits very hard".

I've flown hobby-level UAV in heavy winds and a snow storm. Even a basic autopilot far exceeds what is possible to a human pilot. Having seen what stunts are possible with those quads, they are very close to being able to perform anything what the laws of physics allow. The only worry I'd have is waterproofing the thing, the increased power consumption and battery lifetime during prolonged, intensive use in the cold.

Blimps aren't effective whatsoever. You roughly need one liter of helium to lift one gramm. Plus, any kind of wind makes it impossible to head for that direction.
A model sail plane should exceed blimps in most categories: power usage, max payload, speed.

IMHO, blimps only make sense above a certain threshold size, which is a very high treshold.

They tested in a VM. Now where's the proof that by itself doesn't affect performance in an unpredictable way?

Thank you.
CM6 can hardly be called fast on the G1, though. I've been running dwang's super-speedy rom, but would rather run a current version. I don't know if I'm missing any of the speed settings (JIT, CompCache, etc.), but toying around with them has not brought much of a improvement.

What rom are you running? I'm still looking for a fast stable rom for my G1.

The wingspan compares to that of a 747...

There's quite a bit of controversy around Iron, but I'm too lazy to be bothered to google the discussions for you, sorry. I think it essentially states that there was no reason for a fork and Chromium performs just as well, concerning privacy.

And as slashdotters, we will take that exact logic as proof anyone not doing Open Source must be nefarious. (Except you Windows geeks)

Yet, with Climate, it is ok. We don't give the same baleful eye to closed source research.

Actually paid == payed. Payed is an archaic form of paid, which is obsolete in most circumstances. Apparently it's still correct in the nautical use as well as for payed subscriptions. Hell even the spell check in Firefox accepts it as legimit.

If you're going to be one of those annoying grammar nazi pricks, the least you could do is be right.

I hardly ever use my iPod with headphones. Usually it's plugged into speakers or my car stereo. In those cases the signal quality seems to correlate to the volume set on the player, but the volume itself is set by the amplifier. Admittedly, kicking the volume up to the player's 100% tends to distort the signal, but setting the player to a level that would be "safe" in headphones is short of the best signal.

As you should know before speaking of good and bad journalism, an unnamed article is considered an expression of the views from the journal itself. This is why they did not call the guy. It's not open to discussion, they think what they have written. And it is a display of intellectual honesty and clarifies the stance of the journal, so that you can take that into account next time you read it.