I think it makes sense - you'd probably be driving the car in for the inspection, so it'd be nice to have some sort of confidence in your seatbelt for that drive.

But whereas the NBA can enforce a salary cap for its players, who would enforce the salary cap for CEOs?

Shareholders presumably, if they cared to.

US congre... Oh wait. There is no way something even way milder like making them pay taxes will fly.

I don't think the studious hermit going over every line of open source code was how it was supposed to work either though.

It's more just that you have lots of groups exercising the code and looking into various portions of the code - if every group decides "Yep, the portion we use/looked at is solid", then you gain some confidence that the code does what it's supposed to. The more groups using/perusing the code, the more confidence you gain.

Greyhound is where I got the inspiration from.

I was being facetious.

Or fecetious...

Wow, so you're saying the UMP game in Starcraft 'Break the Condom' was actually fairly accurate.

I've got a friend that had her account deleted for awhile and then logged into Spotify; apparently, Spotify silently reactivates Facebook accounts if you use the same email for both services.

Had exactly the same happen - which was rather annoying. Spotify's loss was Rdio's gain.

I was a big fan of Rdio until I realized they publish a list of your entire music collection publicly under your username. I found that out by googling myself one day, and I closed my Rdio account immediately thereafter.

Rdio offers "Protected Accounts"

http://blog.rdio.com/us/2012/09/now-available-on-rdio-protec...

You can set it to private.

I'm wondering the same thing. I mostly enjoy articles from Medium, except that they seem to frequently present foreign-language articles that I can't read.

Just a note:

If they’re going to reinvent the whole thing, I’d just go for three dots. One dot for low service, two dots for ok, three dots for none, and no dots for none.

I think you meant "...three dots for excellent" or something along those lines.

Great idea though!

Good point - fixed

Yep, they keep a history of chats even when you're using Pidgin. This is pretty easy to confirm...

How do you confirm other than looking for chat logs within Gmail? I don't have any chat logs as I had all conversation logging disabled before this update.

I am connected via Adium pretty much all the time, and talk to multiple people every day.

Gmail shows me one "chat", from years ago, which consisted of me and a friend trying out the chat-from-within-gmail interface. Nothing else is in there.

I think the third paragraph explained their thinking:

    While they offered a relatively short sentence, 
    prosecutors were absolutely determined to get a
    felony plea and some kind of prison time, according
    to sources cited by The Huffington Post. They wanted
    those results because they believed it would justify
    their bringing charges in the first place, according
    to HuffPo.

"According to HuffPo" is not a credible citation. If we're going by rumor and innuendo, what about the claims that MIT was the one pushing for jail time?

If it really was just to justify the whole circus then the outrage towards the DOJ is warranted. It's silly to let pride and spite ruin someone's life.