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Previous HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2618316

These days, wouldn't this be more the domain of the "copyright czar" (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/intellectualproperty), Victoria Espinel?

Not to go off-topic, but there are absolutely programs (and some may even be CS programs) which require "3 major papers" in lieu of a doctoral dissertation for award of the PhD. This surely has its disadvantages, but I have known colleagues--especially if they're headed into industry--who feel this is more representative of the type of work they're expected to perform and gives them a leg up on students who must manage both.

He's not running with GC permanently disabled, he's only disabled the automatic GC because of the huge overhead required (claiming 1-second pauses every few seconds). He also mentions it's trivial to enable manual GC and run that via setInterval/setTimeout/what-have-you.

Indeed, iGoogle is on its way out, another "more wood/fewer arrows" casualty: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/07/igoogle-will-be-dis...

There are some frustrating limitations. In my region (Philadelphia), they will literally have one street with full service and on the next block, they'll only sell you DSL. They announced not long ago they were "scaling back" their buildout, I suppose declaring something akin to "Mission Accomplished" when I still cannot get FiOS from them and, inexplicably, my neighbors not 500 yards away can.

Not endemic to PHP, of course, as it seems MSFT took the same approach with a recent ASP.NET security update. The workaround described in their KB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2661403) is to add a similar configuration override and they've set the limit arbitrarily at 1000 form keys. Which vendors did not dodge the hash algorithm problem and what's the updated algorithm you're referencing? Who's doing this right?

which hasn't stopped anyone from using it in their own apps anyway (e.g. Facebook)

Switch to Profile view, click Edit Profile, and click the (probably shaded/barely visible) "Send an email" button underneath your profile picture. There are a number of privacy options here, although, notably, "anybody on the web" still means "anybody with a Google profile" (or at least I couldn't get it to work unless I was logged in).

Senders see a popup window and indeed G+ does not reveal your e-mail address, which is as it should be. Receivers get an e-mail entitled something like "Message via your Google Profile" with the sender's Gmail account's from name/address.

My comment on G+ encouraging the use of your "real" identity was just meant to highlight that apparently Twitter is the outlier as far as social networking sites go, with regard to whether you can have a completely anonymous (or pseudonymous) conversation via PM. With G+, it seems clear they just want you to use GMail.

How often does one refer to somebody by URL? You may have noticed (I have, anyway) that FB now "helpfully" defaults to an @-mention if you start typing a person's name, essentially offering it as an auto-complete option.

As long as G+ doesn't go down this path, I can live with it, but I don't like that a "mention" automatically implies "full access" to whatever has been said, especially given that the choice of whether or not to share a particular post with that person is presumed to be up to the author of the post, not anyone else who was also included.

The "send email" button, which is disabled/confusing to enable on most profiles, probably fits the "direct message" bill. Having a G+ profile implies you have (if not necessarily use) GMail, after all, and G+ does claim that your actual e-mail address is not revealed to the sender, either.

On the other hand, I could conceivably see a need to converse pseudonymously via the service, but being that G+ has taken the FB-like approach that urges users to create profiles that mirror their identity "as you are known to others," they probably do not have any urgent plans to implement a separate messaging service on top of G+ when they see GMail as a natural replacement.

Adding to this, if I comment on FB about any other member and use the @-mention feature, but they're not authorized to see the original post, they won't be able to read what I wrote or what anybody else did either. Compare that to G+, where a +-mention actually grants access for the post to the mentioned user whether they originally had it or not.

Imagine planning a surprise birthday party, where someone +-mentions them, even by mistake. So much for surprises!

well, us mere mortals will have to stick to international treasury ETFs like BWX or fear plays like good old GLD/VIX.

even if you could directly invest in greek bonds, you probably would not want to do this...