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"products of large companies traditionally suffer by having to strategically support other products of the same company. This is a major reason why products of large companies often get beaten by products of smaller uncommited ones. If Google has truly decided not to go this route with Chrome (or any of its products), I think is pretty great." - alexandros marinos

"there is a way to derrive an unbiased random number, even if everyone else is cheating. take this:http://everything2.com/title/C... extend for N participants and results from 1 to N. Given this, a lot can be done." - alexandros marinos

"the phone seems very good in general, but Android is too much of a draw for me to get this even if it has superior hardware." - alexandros marinos

"granted. perhaps 'a better theory than what came before it' might be a better description." - alexandros marinos

"Sometimes you have to go against the grain though. After all, evolution is true, and marketing it as 'this is a great way to supplement your creationism' (which Darwin actually did) may not exactly go over well or be the most honest approach." - alexandros marinos

"To be fair, there are 14 that are authored by multiple authors. Perhaps a few more females are hiding in there?" - alexandros marinos

"Your point is valid, translating existing games which are built on a set of assumptions (physical presence -> unique non-communicating players, physical deck + shuffling -> unique cards and true randomness) may not be translatable to an online experience in a sustainable manner. I was refering to the general problem of not being able to trust the single point of control, which applies to all types of online gambling. In this context, I was wondering why games that can be gambled on have not appeared that work in a fully distributed manner." - alexandros marinos

"I wonder if a provably unbiased distributed gambling application cannot be made so as to guard against the potential for such attacks. Generating random numbers in a distributed and uncheatable way is already possible, I wonder what is holding this back." - alexandros marinos

"just because I mentioned the problem does not mean I have the solution :). If I had to venture a guess, I would say it would look much more like a distributed identity/trust model than the current semi-centralized DNS solution." - alexandros marinos

"Whatever level the nevessary action needed to be performed on, it needed the big boys (and girls) to get involved. And the chance has been lost for this round it seems. Thinking about your solution a bit more though, and it does sound good at first, what happens when the black list starts approaching a material percentage of the total of usable domain names? are we eventually going to blaclist the entire domain-space? This is just another reason why DNS is very, very broken." - alexandros marinos

"Aside from the obvious stupidity of the 'established players', i have to say, that is one hell of a bootstraping technique." - alexandros marinos

Excellent work! - George

"odd.. Although microsoft has been an innovative company at least during the 90's, it seems open source outplays microsoft on all five of these strategies. Would explain a lot." - alexandros marinos

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"Touche. I read that 'and' as starting a new unrelated characteristic where 'ground' was bridge level. Reading it again, you are right." - alexandros marinos

"...the sorts of things that actually justify beliefs (evidence, argument) I think this is where the divergence of opinion is. The Pope sees faith as a different source of beliefs. Assuming the Pope is an honest catholic, he considers his (and his follower's) faith superior to that of all other religions. To him, "everyone else just doesn't get it"." - alexandros marinos

"A very valiant effort. I am concerned about the false positives/negatives though, and the article dod not say much in the way of that." - alexandros marinos

"just did. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008......" - alexandros marinos

"come to think of it, sun may be the only company to have the entire stack of technologies in house... chips, servers, os, VM, programming language, development environment.. cloud computing seems an obvious direction.. perhaps they are doing that already?" - alexandros marinos

"I think the coder of this service replied with a similar example. Apparfently he started from customizable js websites and did ads later. I hope he moves the website thing to an open source project." - alexandros marinos

"Stack overflow is tying its innovative QA format to its subject matter in a way that results in both lost opportunities and dillution of their initial mission. Instead of encouraging the qa format use in different subject areas by either segmenting the current website or creating a network of websites, they are insisting on this 'programmer-only' mindset which necessarily expands the amount of 'allowable' material to anything that could conceivably be thought of as a programming question, including 'programmer jokes' and what not. A good idea would be to spawn different sections for application-related questions and maybe humour as well as anythng else they see as a viable section and then let the users decide which question goes where. That way you have both increased focus for each section and wider coverage." - alexandros marinos

"Amazing idea. I guess user interfaces for websites could follow a similar route some day. You specify the parameter range for the appearance of a website and the system finds the appropriate settings for a given demographic/geographic segment/time of day." - alexandros marinos