Skype leeches a little bit of bandwidth from a lot of organisations, which causes them all to need slightly more/bigger routers than they would otherwise.

Cisco sells routers.

What's the betting that the Skype protocol will get a bit less efficient each year from now on?

You need to look a bit harder, like for all of five seconds: non-portable for £20, portable for £30. Of course, that's still pretty expensive compared to FM.

Except that one of Einstein's most lasting and relevant contribution to modern Physics is in fact general relativity, in the form of the Einstein field equations. Which he published (correctly) in November 1915, when he was 36.

If you're about ten (which I think was Tolkein's intended audience) then as I recall it's fantastic compared to the other books offered to you at that age.

Actually, that's also possible. In theory, it could even be done without a fission primary.

Now, doing it in a controlled and sustained way, that's a bit more difficult.

Some great photos in there.

You don't have to be an aero engineer to know that you don't want your engine looking like that.

I don't think she "committed" to dying until she stood on the bridge above the Rideau and decided to fill her lungs with water.

Here's a quote from the mother of the other guy;

Mark had had a nervous breakdown and he was depressed and incredibly susceptible. This person was there whispering in his ear every time he logged on. In the last email, this person claimed to be a nurse, saying he had medical training, and proposed a suicide pact.

Emphasis mine. The point being, he helped these people make that "commitment".

To put it another way: humans who are not ill have a minimum responsibility not to aggravate the illness of others.

The site advocates doing all the processing on the server, rather than offloading it to the client via JavaScript... can we spot any flaws there?

From here:

Kajouji: I am planning to attempt this Sunday.

Cami: Wow. You want to use hanging too?

Kajouji: I’m going to jump.

Cami: Well, that’s okay, but most people puss out before doing that. Plus, they don’t wanna leave a terribly messy mess for others to clean up.

Kajouji: I want it to look like an accident. There’s a bridge over the river where there’s a break in the ice. The water is really rough right now, and it should carry me back under the ice, so I can’t really come up for air. And if drowning doesn’t get me, hopefully the hypothermia will. Is there anything you want to do before you go? I’m trying to get my affairs in order—cleaning my room, paying off my loan.

Cami: I’ve got everything ready to go. My mom will get my insurance and money, so there will be no worries there. I’ve got my funeral s--- all taken care of. Got rope and stuff ready. Do you have a webcam?

Kajouji: Yes.

Cami: Well, if it comes down to hanging, I can help you with it with the cam. Proper positioning of the rope is important.

Kajouji: Thank you.

Cami: That method is so fast and certain, I can’t think of another way for me. I don’t want to feel nothing.

Words fail me, really.

...I think millions of rogue strands of the same basic stuff that codes for our existence, is a perfectly sensible thing to start making machines out of. And when that stuff randomly and regularly mutates, and is known to put its own survival above our own, even better!

The world is far from garbage. This is mainly due to people who take action upon their beliefs, whatever those beliefs might be, despite the endless ranks of know-everything-do-nothing fools who sit on internet messageboards and whine about it.

Probably the same part of "If you don't like their site, nobody is preventing you from setting up your own." that you're struggling with.

Unless you're funding them through your tax system (and you're not), what right have you got to tell them what they should and should not do?

If you don't like their site, nobody is preventing you from setting up your own.

With the exception of contracts and suchlike (which would obviously be outside this scheme), I can't think of anything sensitive that I receive by snail mail these days.

Everything I really care about the security of (bank statements, personal messages etc) comes over the web, via TLS.

"I'm a PC and the Windows 7 Browser Selection Tool was my idea!"