Why can't tech make having to go to work obsolete?

Why can't we make all the tech stuff, like robots, do all the dumb work for all of us so we can spend the rest of our lives playing, or do the kind of work we really enjoy? Isn't this the frigging thing we should strive to achieve in society? Not create more jobs, but less?

On my iPhone 4

Overall, it feels snappier, but that may be psychological, since the interface looks cleaner. Also, I see a lot of negative comments of 'new iPhone' owners regarding the slowness because of all the animations. I don't see those. Maybe because they are automatically disabled on the iPhone 4. Perhaps, the iPhone 4, of all compatible models, is the best one to upgrade iOS 7 on.

Scrolling is slower. in iOS 6, the scrolling page appeared to be subjected to a certain amount of inertia. I.e. it kept on scrolling for a little bit even after you stopped dragging. Also, the faster you swiped your finger up, the more inertia there seemed to be. It was helpful in scrolling though lengthy pages. All that seems to be gone now. At least in Safari.

Skype is broken in iOS 7 on several points: (i) longer time tags are capped, '20' rather than '20.39', (ii) sending photographs and video messages is broken now. And there's no update available yet.

He made the recording in the Netherlands. It's legal to record anyone there, on film and on tape. It's illegal to publish those recordings without the subjects consent, if they can be recognised in those publications. So the guy is in the clear (in the Netherlands). Then again, he can be extradited upon US request. Because it's on YouTube, which means it's published physically on US soil. I guess they could catch him at customs too, when he enters the US. But then again again, he's Dutch, of Iranian decent, so they'll do a total body cavity search at customs no matter how well he behaves.

If, for the sake of retribution and showing muscle, the NSA feels the need to waste tax money on bullying this Iranian/Dutch young man by intimidating him, at least the rest of the world knows who can't be trusted with spy tools that are meant for protecting the Ustated Nites of America.

As in: tobacco doesn't kill people because Winston Churchill reached a respectable age of 93?

FTFA

The makers of Snapchat are right to reject the “sexting app” label – it’s not clear that this is what it is even being used for, and everyone deserves the option to communicate privately when they want, without automatically being branded as a pervert.

Just as I thought. It's just another sexting app.

Moreover, they opted that our streets could be lit with trees, rather than lamp posts. But it's not going to happen. 1. Currently, regulations prohibit GMO from blending with our ecosystem. 2. Plants with the luciferin/luciferase 'operons', if they ever get to be introduced into the plant genome successfully, will be overgrown by mutants who have shed their extra genetic burden or by other competitors which do not glow, but, instead, grow faster. To counter this would require some strict, labour-intensive culturing policies, or the use of herbicides a la Monsanto.

In the same line of logic, you would reason that vegetarians are meat-eaters who don't eat meat.

Being an atheist is being non-religious.

No. That's not how it works in science. In science, it goes like this:

• Null hypothesis: "There is no god"
• Alternative hypothesis: "There is a god, who looks like Adam, created the world in 6 days, committed the biggest mass murder of all time by flooding the earth, etc. etc."

The burden of proof always lies with the person who makes the claim that something exists.