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As it turns out, being a physicist is rare, as is being a surfer, so finding a physicist surfer is unlikely, but that alone doesn't speak to the correlation of those skills.

In your surfing example the surfer is at risk.

A large number of astrophysicists (especially the ones with a Astronomy bent) tend to be of the hippy/surfer crowd.

Wikipedia links to a very interesting description of an accidental attack to a surfer in 70's.

A surfer might say the same thing about you just sitting on a towel (or whatever you do at the beach).

In what sense is that still beneficial to an ordinary web surfer?

The real benefit of a login form is you can easily seperate the casual nosy surfer from someone more interested in hacking your site.

That magic cookie would be sent to every site so that cross-domain sites in the same network could establish the browser as the same surfer.

A slight learning curve, but worth it for the power surfer.

Being a physicist and being a surfer are not particularly correlated.

A Venice Beach surfer cashes in with an iphone app.

I was just thinking about this today - how I'm always cut-and-pasting file paths from ag (silver surfer) results at the console.

I'm imagining a surfer zen master saying, "dude it is not the size of the screen that matters, but what is in the mind."

Or the original Ninja Gaidens, Silver Surfer, Battletoads...gamers have it easier these days.