I would never want to speculate, but I speculate that CNN's ratings will be back to their abysmal levels in a few weeks. :)

Note that you can't use hola for anything except the browsers it supports. (As far as I know.) So it's good if you want privacy only in the browser.

I wonder: this kind of malware doesn't require admin permissions, does it?

This explains everything :).

I think that Microsoft would make more money if those "500 million!" XP users woke up one day, realized their 10-year-old XP tower no turns on, and were forced into buying a newer PC.

Problem is, this is not a great time for that. Should have waited for Windows 9 to be released. ):

I haven't finished the article yet, but so far:

> Microsoft XP

Haha!

> Microsoft is dumb

Haha! I guess so. :)

To be fair, the author probably hasn't used a PC in years.

Given what we've seen, I'm not inclined to believe that the UK government will use this newfound power for good.

You can have an async implementation and synchronous code. http://meteor.com does that part quite nicely. The compiler or runtime should be handling this kind of cruft for us in most cases. Just because using Brainfuck might result in theoretically faster code than Ruby doesn't mean we should be writing our server in Brainfuck.

Would be interesting if Twitter created their own bot to make it seem like they have more active users than they actually do.

That reminds me of the payola concept where record labels would buy CDs to bolster first week record sales.

This is a well known way to get on to the New York Times Best Seller List.

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

Or where Facebook sells fake likes...

Scientologists buy L. Ron Hubbard books and return them to be sold again and again and again.

which is why the Beatles got on the charts so fast.