Ah, come on! They don't need to disappear them! With a population of 550, the rest of the country is probably heavily subsiding their post office, sheriff, the road that lets them even exist. In other words, the purse strings. They probably think they're out there, pioneers in the wilderness, and such BS.

I look forward to innovations in elder care and access as the Google bigwigs age. How about family care? Do these guys wish to marry, procreate?

They're all NSA-compliant, but looks like T-Mo is doing its own snooping before getting the spooks into the loop (highest time to first byte).

I can see all of these problems being addressed if there is demand, especially with the kinds of money train-plane will involve.

For example, people want to move fast and on schedule - so use the bus as a feeder from downtown, suburban, or whatever areas are far away from the rail station. Drive the bus onto the train - you don't need Greyhound-style 45' buses, just Sprinters or something lighter. Once the train in under-way, passengers and leave the bus and use restrooms, pantry cars, etc. on the train. As for waiting for other buses, the train can carry a few buses, and me mostly regular passenger rail cars, so it isn't waiting on many buses. Can this really be worse than the flight delays these days?

Truck to train has been going on for decades. A more feasible approach is to have buses that can be driven on to, or hooked up to trains. It wouldn't cover the kinds of distances planes can, but it would happen a lot sooner.

Which comes first, the lithium-xxx battery that will last 7 days, or the plane-train?

If I buy a store brand potato chip all the time, and they give me a coupon for say, Frito Lays, I'm not like "hey, invasion of privacy", but more like "hmmm, only 25 c more for Frito, I'll try it, maybe I'll like it."

Sometimes a coupon is just a coupon.

AC units for data centers can be ordered with economizers, which will vent outside air in when there's enough cooling potential. They will filter it, etc.

Interestingly enough, these units have to be freeze-rated also.

Like with Swartz, this is the prosecutors Christmas-treeing up the charges, to psych and make it too expensive for the defendants; and make them settle - for money, some jail time, whatever. That way they can chalk one up in the win column, which looks pretty good when they run for office. I'm assuming the defendant here was white, because if he were black, I'd expect to see charges for tax evasion, aiding offshore combatants, and possession of skills with intention to use for mass destruction of capitalism.

I don't "need" to "prove" anything. I stated an opinion, based upon what I put out there, and based upon what you choose to google for and read, you can choose to believe it, or not.

And yes, pigs make for much better subjects. But you see, pigs can't be tailored or bread as fast as mice. And that is what determines what they use, not what is most suitable.Here's a long but interesting article about this.
      http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/naked_mole_rats_can_they_help_us_cure_cancer_.html

Animal testing is inhumane, but it is also mostly bogus. They immuno-suppressed the f out of these animals, right? So they'll easily develop cancers and other diseases, right? Yeah, so what relevance does that animal have to humans? Zilch. It is accepted that mice testing is simply something to get out of the way, something to get funding for ('cause all that the funders - like the NIH in the US - recognize is testing on mice). They get it out of the way, so they can get to human trials, and that's where you find out what works for humans and what doesn't.

I need to archive emails that I can search later - but with a twist. These are employees who've left the company. I can't keep 'em on at Google Apps 'cause I have to pay for that by user. So I use IMAP (making sure to set Chats to be shown in the IMAP list), create an account in Thunderbird, and slurp it all on to the local machine. It keeps all the folders, although I doesn't seem to be smart enough to figure out multiple labels, so it looks like it downloads the same email multiple times, once for it's folder, and once for "All Mail." Then I delete the account at Google. You just have to be sure to click through all the folders in Thunderbird and make sure it is done downloading before you blow the Google account away.

No, T-Mobile's plans (well, at least the one I have) come with free and lousy voicemail. Ever want to hear that waiting voicemail early in the morning because it could be from work? Well, how's about you go through 29 of your saved voicemail that must be re-saved or will be deleted before you can hear the new voicemail? Hows about you can't go to their site and download the ones you want to save?

Oh, you want to do that! OK, well, that will be premium voicemail. But yeah, the cheap-and-it-shows version is free.

RDP is fast even on a Linux box, so are you implying that the RDP client(s) in Linux know windows painting commands sent by Windows apps/desktops? If so, then why isn't there a Linux remoting solution that uses the same commands?

Something that's always been bugging me... why is RDP so much better (no, not flamebait, RDP has been buttery smooth even over ATT 1.5 Mbps "broadband")? And been that way for years, better than the lightweight VNCs, remote Xs, and the latest X2gos.

Is there a fundamental difference in how RDP does it vs X?

BTW, I'm talking the RDP clients that come with Windows, not the $$ Citrix ones.

And it is interesting that they don't fully understand the choice of lifestyle they made. So governments in Europe are moving to put in austerity measures, which is deepening their recession instead of helping. At least France did, until Hollande stopped going full bore austerity.

And they have a nice lifestyle, no healthcare bankruptcies, and they make decent stuff. They even decided not use LiON batteries in the A380, so it's not like they became completely vegetative because they don't have constant downward wage pressure to make them work hard like in a union-busting US state.