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If you have a smart TV you probably want to browse the web on it.


While there isn't anything special marking the edge of space, the generally accepted definition is 100km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_space


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_sovereignty

Makes me interested to see what the treaties say as I'd be surprised it no one thought to limit the control of countries to allow satellites to pass without permission or allow space vehicles in general.

Though as you point out there is the Karman line convention.


It's so easy to access all kinds of information from home nowadays, it can be better at fulfilling my curiosity than going out.


I think that is a key problem in the Internet age. I would argue that cigarettes were so powerful because they make social interaction easier.

The Internet brings the cost of social interaction -- communion -- far lower than cigarettes ever did.

Because it is so valuable to so many people, lowering the cost of communing can incentives some terrible things by accident.


The you're not curious about the right things. Or probably more accurately, you're an exception. Humans are social animals.


Google is already storing urls to those files.


This is a nice example of simple evolutionary algorithm. Next steps could be separating crossover and mutate operations, selecting more parent pairs for crossover and applying mutation in a more random fashion (not with every crossover).


I'd use random data to make it hard to compress. You don't know if there won't be some link layer compression along the way.


That doesn't really fix the problem, what if that random data happened to compress well? The solution is to not compress anything while downloading.


"Random data' [1] will not compress well [2].

[1] high-entropy in any of the usually-available ways

[2] for any compression system actually deployed, as opposed to one contrived to match specifically the 'random' source


A large quantity of random data is incredibly unlikely to compress well.


    most people are not intelligent enough 
    to use modern tools (computers) effectively
Most people have never been taught how to use computers effectively.


This is great. Nobody ever travels from airport to airport, yet every flight search engine insists that you enter departure and destination airport names instead of places you actually want to go to. How am I supposed to know what airports are nearby a place I've never been before?


FWIW, Orbitz will allow you to search for flights by city names rather than airport codes. I'm not sure how it decides what airports serve a given city, though.


Maybe Orbitz works better in US, but I just tried it with a small selection of English towns and it basically failed spectacularly. flightm8 on the other hand would happily tell me the nearest airport to Leatherhead and Whitby.


Id games have lot's of artwork, levels, etc. that is not released under GPL. In minecraft it's users that create the content. Id can release their engines under GPL without harming their sales.


I'm not sure why, but the page is in Korean. Here is an English blog post: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/3250656#blog


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