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That is a good point... though I really don't like either choice. :D

Yep, I can see them getting excited data mining people's social networks. However before they do that they need to get the social network...

Personally I think we shouldn't move away from the concept of: URI resource, just for some short-term gain. I think that metaphor will be a lot more useful in the long term. What w…

he he... I do that often for Wikipedia... even though I don't get why Wikipedia hasn't implemented a nicer looking URL (in particular removing the middle /wiki/). :(

What was the historical reason? I know that originally the actual domain name was written from "largest" to "smallest": com.google, for example. I find my perfectionist side slight…

For a start we should try to get rid of all those www: that will be the greatest help. The rest should be pretty easy: a website can always set a forwarding link so that, say: www.…

I am not sure about that. Though I do think there is a certain feeling of elitism within Google, like all the brightest people are inside (which to be honest it's probably a pretty…

True... though "clone it and eventually users will come" was Microsoft strategy, wasn't it? :D (ah, Microsoft, if you had only patented it! ;P ). But I'd be careful to consider Goo…

Personally I am more worried of a big company dominating more than one space. Say, I'm happy with PS3 to beat Xbox 'cause Sony is not a threat anywhere else, but Microsoft got the …

I feel a bit sad for Rails (yes, I know he will continue contributing, but I doubt it will be anything close to what he did in the last few years, when that was his main job). But …

Oh, you should fix wikipedia then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton which is based on this: http://www.cbo.gov/budget/data/historical.pdf as confirmed by factcheck.org: ht…

Oh, I definitely agree that their impact was weakened by the exclusivity... for a start because Android would have been less popular. My guess (and it's purely that) is that the de…

Actually you can say "las juesas". :) In Italian it is true that the last letter is not a perfect indication of gender... even for people's names (e.g. Andrea should be a male name…

Nobody is arguing that American companies can't compete, or that America isn't a great country. But the UK was an innovator once, and so was Italy before it. That said you could ve…

I'll take your word for it. My impression of cause and effect was that it started pretty much from the beginning, when Obama tried to push for economic stimulus first and universal…

But you are comparing apple and oranges. You are comparing Microsoft today with Apple in 2007. There were a _lot_ of people doubting Apple would succeed if they ever tried to move …

Why are SS and Medicare the biggest drivers? Didn't Clinton leave you with a surplus? And didn't he have to pay for SS and Medicare too? What's changed since then and now? Anyway I…

Obviously it's not a good idea. But I would imagine that the answer if you can't fill your pot holes is to raise taxes, not hope that the future will bring something better. If dur…

Yep. I surely had high hopes on Obama. What's worrying me is how much opposition he has found and how much power he lost. It was enough to talk about socialism and having a bigger …

... or maybe that you did something right in the past. By that meter then Nokia is doing things right too.

Either Roosvelt?

There's a certain irony in hearing someone from the Reagan government talking about China's fast train. If you so much as suggested something like that in the USA you'd be billed a…

Lol... ok so... at what point---oh wise one---do police pay become worth? Because the article speak of basically few officers and no detectives. And what happens if we don't find a…

You make it sound easy. Apple would have loved for nothing more than having their phone on every carrier. But at the time they were a nobody in the mobile arena, and not only was t…

I agree with the main arguments. Although as others pointed out this is mostly an american problem (though it still occurs abroad, but less so). But I find this argument naive: "Bu…