Yeah, the reason why these anecdotes are believable is that they are based on criminal investigations and court proceedings. As you might guess, some of those hundreds of men were not too happy.

Little known fact: a person with HIV who has access to the right retroviral drugs and takes them on time is practically unable to transmit HIV during sex. There are now anecdotes about HIV positive men who have had sex without using a condom with hundreds of non-HIV positive men without a single instance of transmitting the virus.

Of course, these people still transmit other STD:s.

What about SUPER t, e, r, ENTER?

The good news is human fertility rate is about to skyrocket before that happens!

There are actually Chinese noname watches that are basically fully fledged smartphones with most of what you'd expect from a smartphone in terms of features, including a camera. Example: http://www.dhgate.com/product/...|1016721942

Good luck getting that battery to last you through the day!

That is unlikely, barring some miraculous breakthrough in radio efficiency or battery capacity. The radio in the watch would drain the battery way too fast if it was constantly communicating with other devices.

A lot of fun ideas about how one might use mobile devices fall flat as soon as you factor in the energy storage constraint.

This is a popular sentiment, and it is true in the simple sense that if other people are satisfied with 3 GHz CPU:s then you will be satisfied too.

This hides the real reason why clock speeds of new CPU designs are no longer increasing at the rate that that they used to. The reasons are basically that they current way of making chips has largely run its course down to a dead end where it is not feasible to increase the clock speed. Maybe someone will think of a better way to make circuits, but for now we're stuck in the 3-5 GHz range.

Now you might say "but seriously, 3 GHz is enough for anyone". To which I would say: game makers and the makers of software IDE:s will think of ways to waste any amount CPU cycles available. Any amount. There would be a market for 3 THz CPU:s if it were possible to could make them (and sell them at a reasonable price point).

Most of the ads are for things that you can't pirate, like online casinos, free to play games, "dating" sites...

When you click the search box it often triggers a popup ad. I would imagine that ad sees hundreds of millions of impressions per month, which would translate to hundreds of thousands of dollars in monthly revenue at an average of $1 per 1000 impressions.

There are also some regular ads on the site. They could easily be making more than $10 million a year in ad revenue.

You can capture the sound and record it as a file in a format of your choice, but the average consumer will have a hard time recreating something that matches the experience that a well maintained streaming music service can offer.

We no longer even have to create playlist. We can just find an interesting playlist that someone else has created (for example a friend with good music taste, or a staff member who is payed to create playlist) and play it with one click. We can be pretentious all day long, but in the end instant gratification is instantly gratifying.

My library of pirated music is so out of date with my music taste that I would probably delete 95% of it, assuming the old drive that I put it on still works. It must be half a decade since I last spun it up. The only thing that leaves me unenthusiastic about streaming music is that these corporations hardly lift a finger to make it easy to contribute money to the artists.

The only way to make something unpiratable is to have it be a continuous interaction between a client and a server where you control the server.

I guess this music "format" is essentially going to be Apple's answer to Pandora, Spotify, et al.

As long as URL:s are visible to viewers .com and .org will remain as status markers. The fact that these people couldn't afford to acquire the .com is evidence that there isn't a lot of financial muscle behind the project.

Another piece of evidence is that the site is now down. I'm going to go ahead and guess that they are on this plan: http://mediatemple.net/webhost... with "unlimited bandwidth" for $29 a month, laws of physics be damned.

Artificial fertilizer, tractors, better crop varieties. Maybe some GMO.

Africa is huge and has a lot of good soil waiting to be turned into efficient industrial farms. What it lacks is peaces, stability and institutions. But they're working on it.

It is sometimes said that Africa would eventually end up feeding the world, but if these new figures turn out to be true then it will perhaps merely end up feeding itself.

Yeah, those plagues in the middle ages sure prevented Europe from becoming densely populated...

24 Mb/s is pretty good for most any everyday household use, assuming it has consistently low latency and no packet loss.

The real question you should ask your ISP is: what's the network like when the weekend Netflix streaming surges kick in? Or: is my friday night deathmatch going to lag terribly? Of course if you ask that of their sales people you'll get blank stares and answers along the lines of "Netflix and games work great".