Just curious... why doesn't wikipedia create a new hostname (e.g., "safe.wikipedia.org"), and then create a process (it's good at that, right?) for promoting content into it?

Then, schools / parents / etc. could blacklist the "main" site as much as they like, and whitelist the "safe" one, WITHOUT altering the main site at all?

As Roy pointed out to them on Twitter, this is a blatant violation of the spec; DNT is designed to reflect the USER's preference, not a default.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-tracking-dnt-20120313/#determining

"""
The goal of this protocol is to allow a user to express their personal preference regarding tracking to each server and web application that they communicate with via HTTP, thereby allowing each service to either adjust their behavior to meet the user's expectations or reach a separate agreement with the user to satisfy all parties.

Key to that notion of expression is that it must reflect the user's preference, not the preference of some institutional or network-imposed mechanism outside the user's control. Although some controlled network environments, such as public access terminals or managed corporate intranets, might impose restrictions on the use or configuration of installed user agents, such that a user might only have access to user agents with a predetermined preference enabled, the user is at least able to choose whether to make use of those user agents. In contrast, if a user brings their own Web-enabled device to a library or cafe with wireless Internet access, the expectation will be that their chosen user agent and personal preferences regarding Web site behavior will not be altered by the network environment, aside from blanket limitations on what sites can or cannot be accessed through that network.
"""

Actually, Jim Gettys has called for the adoption of SPDY (alongside the wider deployment of HTTP pipelining) to help mitigate bufferbloat.

I think you mean among the teen-boys-with-too-much-time-and-Internet-access community. Australia's technology communities have bigger collective fish to fry.

Jellyfish heaven
In the big blue sea
Where it's too cold to surf
And it's too warm to ski
Jellyfish Heaven
Is full of dead
Jellyfish

People always saying
"I won't eat jellyfish
'Cause they ain't got no bones
And you can't make a wish"
People always shouting
"Don't go swimming near those things!"
But when they're close to dying
You can hear them sing

Jellyfish heaven
Is not like Japan
Jellyfish heaven
Is not like Thailand
Jellyfish heaven
Is a lot
Like LA

You *do* realise that the Intertubes go further than the US border, don't you?

Uh, I loves the Internode, but they don't own the kind of infrastructure that's important here -- last-mile.

This is a standards effort coordinated between the IETF and W3C; see:
    http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/charter/
    http://www.w3.org/2010/12/webrtc-charter.html

While Google is certainly involved, it's a lot more than them, with folks from many companies (including Skype, at least pre-MSFT) participating; see:
    http://rtc-web.alvestrand.com/home/participants

"However, as the article explains, Google sees enough value in WebP to add it as a supported image format for Picasa."

s/Google/Microsoft/
s/Picasa/Windows/

Nobody's calculated the terminal velocity of an iPhone 4 yet?

Slashdot, you're getting sad in your old age...

Because the Web is more than a browser.

Fanboy? check. Paranoid delusional? check. Assert lots of absurdities with no basis? check. Good to see the Slashdot editors are maintaining their standards high here.

Speaking of high...