Or, in other words, [citation needed]. (also, is [citation needed] a meme when discussing Wikipedia? ) There's a wide variety of material that will result in reverts or blocks that isn't really vandalism, though. Behaviour that's disruptive, trolling, a breaching experiment, etc. will elicit roughly the same response as vandalism, and that needs to be taken into account both for automatic vandalism-repair systems (should this process treat it as vandalism?) and for making the statement that vandalism is ill-defined or that it's used for corrupt purposes. My guess is that some people are lumping the disruptive behaviour, etc. into "vandalism" when it really ought to be labelled "trolling" or some such—the response is the same, but the semantics *sigh* (Disclosure: I am an admin on Wikipedia.)

My hope would be that whether they read Wikipedia or not, people would not support projects like this one which place more power in the hands of Wikipedia admins. Such projects by definition place less power in the hands of ordinary Wikipedia users.

Hopefully companies like Google will also question whether Google is deserving of $2M contributions, especially when in terms of democratic process Wikipedia is getting worse instead of better, as admins go off on their power trips with more and more powerful tools.

Read the Wikipedia talk page for the Martin Heidegger article and you can see that parts of Wikipedia are infested with Neo-Nazi sympathizers who have the protection of a particular Wikipedia admin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Martin_Heidegger

Why don't we comission a new Korean War Memorial sculpture, smash Mr. Gaylord's sculpture to bits and then mail him the pieces?

Yeah... it seems life was better here when we let those in arguments that will never be settled fight among themselves instead of letting them fight us in their home land.

It takes about two hours or more to drive from Dulles (DC's satellite airport in No VA) one-way to DC :P
I'd be amazed if there was a farm within 2 hours one-way from DC with nobody else on the road. Farm with beef cattle anyway, not just horses and a truck with farm plates.

I showed that link to my buddy. He responded with this link:
 
http://www.videosift.com/video/TED-Augmented-reality-using-Bing-maps
 
Which makes the google demo look like something from 1996 in comparison. (Skip ahead to the 4:20 mark for some jaw-dropping live video overlaid on top of 3D interior shots of pike place market, generated from user pics. Mix that sort of data with technology like this and with enough computing power you could probably render a decent 3D model of the habitated world in a few weeks.

Never ran into this either in 4.0, though given the nature of airplane flight it'd be pretty tricky to hit the ground at *exactly* straight down. I was pretty young and definitely tried out all the different ways of crashing things.

Grandfather had an early post war IH truck. Reportedly capable of towing 12,000 lbs. with no fuss.

I can already see all the comments how MS would be favoring IE with this (summary conveniently left that one out), but as it is they're promoting the other browsers almost double more.

I think you'd need user testing to determine that.

Do people choose the first one on the list or do they read the whole list and then maybe select the last one more often?

And the current system works fine, so that's an argument for government hands off, right? Or maybe it's an argument for tightening credit/debit card security? I mean, the crypto for transmitting credit card numbers works fine as is...

Then the pirates will have the online distribution market all to themselves. Yeah, I'm sure the legit content distributors are going to like that.

Any sane large organization should realize that it will have security incidents. I see an abundance of organizations online today. So this is an argument for... what, exactly?

Uh-huh. And the US having control of the root zone engenders trust exactly how? I see this as a great argument for less US gov involvement.

Did you buy managed service? Let them manage your system or else find out what's causing the problem yourself and report it. If you think you are better able to manage the system than they are, examine the logs yourself when the system is up and figure out what happened. You may have to boost your logging level and install/enable some admin tools, but if they think they can determine the problem by looking at the logs, you should be able to do it also.

You should not equate all animals with your pets. The animal world is actually a very violent world.

Ooooh yeah... Boom chicka boom

I'll just stick with Saurian Brandy.

But now nerds get to make funny comments about it.