Yeah, I chose 10 years. Mom died at 62, Dad at 72. I'm 56 and have high blood pressure even though I eat healthy and walk a lot.

I turn 55 next month and drink insanely strong coffee and have been doing so since I was 15. Just sayin'.

Indeed. That'd be my vote!

"They do _not_ need that to refine their searches. If I search for, say, "Oracle auto-tuning", that's that. I expect the same result regardless of what my IP is, regardless of whether I searched for "WebSphere XA configuration" before, or "Fluffy tail buttplugs" or whatever. You can tune the search with just the search string. You don't need to track me for that."

First, I'm not defending Google's right/desire to keep any of this data...

That said, you are wrong. Search results are not idempotent, they change depending on your language, which data center you're talking to, and they will certainly change over time. If I search for "chevy parts" and then I immediately search for "impala", I'd rather see pages about Chevy Impalas. If I had just searched for "african wildlife" then I'd rather see results about the animals. If I search for Bush from U.S. I'd expect more weight given to pages about the President, while people in other english-speaking countries might get more landscaping pages.

I have two Newton 2000s. One I still use from time to time, and I also love it. I have long wished that either a good linux port or scaled down OS X distro would become available for it - ell that and WiFi of some sort. Sadly, Steve Jobs said that he hated those little "tappy things", so I doubt they'll ever revive the product line.

Synthetic sapphire is way cheaper than that. I bought one about an inch across for under $10. Real synthetic sapphire too, leaves a horrific gouge in quartz if the two come into contact.

1) Name: don't care what you call me, just call me. JOKE (TM).
2) Rank: Law student
3) Serial Number: need to get someone to read it off my back.
4) Favorite Golden Girl: you first
5) Favorite Color: black - it goes with anything and it goes with everything eventually.
6) Favorite Musical Group/Type/Artist: atm listening to Rammstein's latest 'Reise, Reise'.
7) Favorite Pasta: decent pasta that I didn't have to make.
8) Brief Paragraph Describing Yourself: Let's see - I described myself before, wasn't that enough? I could always let you use your imagination, but that might be disasterous.