murz

From the "About" page (http://bandilab.org/about.html):

The main goals of the Bandicoot system are:

- efficient implementation of the relational algebra

- clean language for programmers (rather than "English speakers")

- easy to understand transactions

- open interface

- small code base

> Its Microsoft

The test262 suite was actually published by the ECMA international standards body, although Microsoft did contribute their tests.

The direct link to the suite is http://test262.ecmascript.org/

And the announcement from ECMA international is at http://www.ecma-international.org/news/PressReleases/PR_ISOI...

That's not exactly correct. According to the article Hertzfeld was the key interface designer behind the Circles UI in Google+. The Google-wide visual redesign is the result of a lot of people's work.

> Perhaps allowing them to interact with Facebook

There's no way facebook would play along with that.

From the horses mouth: "we believe that being open about these security issues helps users better protect their information online."

The attacks relied on the victim's naivety and lack of knowledge. If you read the blog post [1], I think it's pretty clear that the purpose was to educate users on how to improve their security when using Google products.

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ensuring-your-informa...

older, more active discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518609

Last year ICE seized 9 other domains too (also mostly video streaming). Details here: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/01/business/la-fi-ct-pi...

I'm curious what the sources would have to gain by leaking this information? In the Reuters article it says they had "direct knowledge of the discussions", why would they risk their jobs to leak something like this? I don't get it.

> You suck at estimating!

Took me a while to learn that one, but it's so true.