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holy cow, I served with CDR Lahti on another ship 10 years ago!

I've been wanting a SSD for weeks now. I think hard drive speed is why Windows XP is running so slow for me (via VMWare on my Mac). Downside is I've got a 320 Gb hard drive so need…

I don't have a reference readily available, but I believe I heard/read recently that their revenues are in the $xx million/year (maybe $15M?).

Google was such a massive success that any search startup with a chance of being a "Google killer", or even just a worthy competitor, seems to be finding investors. If 1% share is …

Glad to hear that the rumors in this article might be unfounded. I was hoping to get one of these in time for the holidays, guess I'll have to wait till next year..

I visited the site because I saw their commercial on TV. I imagine most folks will hear about it through their marketing campaigns. They have plenty of smart folks over there - is …

Okay they fixed the problem. I'd delete my comment if I could but I can't. No need to take away any more of my karma! Thanks.

All I'm seeing is: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: query() in /content/public_web_sites/www.inc.com/reflex/lib/dbi.class.php on line 152

Their website is functional and actually has quite a bit of content on it - including many years worth of letters from Buffett to Berkshire shareholders. I'm sure the site would be…

Your points are all true but printed snail mail is still more mainstream then PGP encrypted e-mail. Despite its age and the fact that it is grossly inadequate, snail mail still has…

I love the idea of a printed letter API (like what postful.com has) as a solution to send automated letters to people. First one that comes to mind is to send a letter to someone i…

I remember seeing the Google piece and thinking it was a good idea then. I can see the progression now: 1) local farmer rents out some goats as an experiment 2) seeing positive fee…

I LOVE HEROKU. In the process of migrating a large app to the cloud via Heroku. (We have other apps already running there.) The guys there are awesome and very helpful, and the ser…

You can definitely host tiny apps for free. If they are fairly low traffic sites with small databases (< 5 MB) that don't require SSL or more than a daily cron, they should fit wit…

WOW. Google is fundamentally changing the business model of many companies. This is a great example. To Google this is all data, and their goal is "to organize the world's informat…

Just to follow up - the stream has gotten a LOT better - watching Chris Anderson now. Awesome!

I think the special interests donate to folks they know they can influence. (Everything in government is about getting the votes they need, right?) Which may be why Obama got a lot…

So funny how Republicans use the word "freedom" (as in "Internet Freedom Act") when they're actually taking freedoms away (like Net Neutrality)

I've been trying to watch and the video has been pretty choppy too. Not trying to hate or anything, but I'm pretty bummed about this. I was really looking forward to watching it.

>> But before I let you get too excited about this, a warning: Morgenstern doesn't tell us what Gödel's loophole was! Wow, that headline was quite a tease!

Is it really that ridiculous? I'm not a lawyer, but I can see both sides to this. The whole purpose of a trademark is to protect your brand from anything that could be construed as…

>> oh, my bad. its rails, it fails to scales! UGH

There are a bunch of sites that offer some kind of functionality like this. Some well known apps (like Tweetie 2) let you do it as well.

Documentaries such as "Recount" and "Hacking Democracy" have made me sick to my stomach - and for a while now I've been questioning the fundamentals of the 'Democracy' that we have…