Blog posts, even the newspaper. Is anyone else bothered by the fragment, "records are reviewed in a timely and efficiently", from a government document that took ~six months to prepare?

It's called fascism, and the public is neither sleeping, nor idle. Every time they call the cops on a noisy neighbor, ask local police to step into a home and mediate marital problems, or just engage in "community outreach" we are collectively lubricating the slide... Unfortunately the lubricant is too often blood.

"selling phones directly to customers — has failed" Until they go brick an mortar - bound to do it eventually.

If USA hadn't canceled the constellation program, the perception of exclusivity for Russia would be diminished, and USA would have a big shiny carrot to barter some short term help with.

The statement above becomes even more true across regional markets... Let's just make sure everything runs HTML 5 and we'll be fine, right?

Don't forget the tinfoil hat. That's what they're for after all...

Let's be clear - corporations are run by people. Actions taken by companies are in fact directed by human stakeholders. Many stakeholders see personal gain as the he highest order of business without regard to how the business integrates into society. Stakeholders benefit from the dedication of employees - motivated primarily by the need to remain employed - who sacrifice for the greater good of the corp. Meanwhile, the company is ultimately only interested in margin. The structure itself is inherently flawed when companies are not owned by their workers. Governing a modern corp with some founding principle, spirit or mantra may be a step in the right direction... But seriously; how long before even G abandons it's "do no evil" pledge? What recourse would employees have (unless they are also shareholders with a voice)?

Speaking for myself; keeping the G5 on 10.4 because it's the last OS X version specifically designed for the power pc chipset, right? 10.5 ushered in the migration to intel architecture, and 10.5 supposedly served both ppc and intel, but was considered relatively inferior to Tiger stability-wise. With Snow Leopard, even apple made it clear they've retired support for legacy, non-intel, systems. Can't remember the last time i got a software update for anything other than safari or itunes...

It's time we adopt Morgan's label, "the Interweb". Clearest term for the proles [because it contains 'web'].

Could one of those USB mini monitors be configured to do this in linux?

Same here. Dropped the WSJ app at the start of the year and replaced it with bloomberg & reuters - both free.

Ditto. Who are all of these pirates? Is this why geeks have been supporting the so-called talk-like-a-pirate day? Is there an app that will turn you into a pirate?

Spot on - wrt marthons. This is a race where ultimately during the next decade billions of units will be shipped - half the people on earth will have a connected communication device, with half of that population cycling every two years ? Plenty of profit in third place, and over the long haul - way too premature to call time of death on the folks who invented this category.

"In most cases" That's the bottom line - just apply the same rule to comments you do to code; overly verbose is usually more confusing.