From the OP

I think this is no more possible to ban bitcoins than banning the trade of gold or banning the trade of old stamps. I'd be willing to be paid in gold and as bitcoins become more popular and accepted as payment, I'm sure being paid in bitcoins would be very acceptable. All government want is their share of the income generated by bitcoins.

Forget tin foil, I think the toilet paper at school is already made out of this material.

Indeed, if it's too volatile it can't be effective in transactions. That being said, it's still in infancy and stability comes with time. As more people trust it, it will tend to fluctuate less.

That was the beta version. We fixed this at least 1.5 billion years ago.

Who said you can't overclock the R9? Just add better cooling. Amazing how suddenly there's a problem because of heath.

I still believe Office 2003 was their best office. After that it became weird. Instead of the anthropomorphic paperclip we now have the forsaken ribbon.

Taking over a system is also different from making it crash (bug vs exploit).

Isn't the iPad Mini and the Surface 2 only about $50 apart? Plus you can pay a little more and get 3G/LTE on the iPad Mini. I don't think the Android tablet are competition to the iPad given the lack of tablet optimized apps. Sure they're trying to improve but even with this effort, it doesn't mean you'll get a truly tablet optimized app. So even if there are some, they might not be obviously identifiable vs another which just stretches the display.

Apple has been dying since 1982.

I bought some Apple products and don't feel abused. I also run Fedora as my main desktop so no RDF here. I recently had a problem with my iPhone and they happily replaced it. I'm not sure what TFA is really about but personally, I've not had any problems with iOS7 (wifi or otherwise) and neither has my family.

I'm not new and have no idea what you're talking about. Microsoft doesn't count, they've been messing up ever since the iPad took them by surprise.

There is a market for each tablet provided they distinguish themselves from others. Apple doesn't have that problem as it's the only tablet that run iOS. If you love iOS, well you're getting an iPad. Android tablets have more of a problem. This RT based Nokia tablet has to beat Microsoft's tablet, the only one out there and perhaps all other Android tablets in features people actually care about. Since it's new, I expect it will but now that MS bought Nokia, what's really the future of this tablet?

I thought Android was GNU/Linux with a Google skin.

Maybe this is just BS designed to spark more interest in the space program. Too bad Saturn is 8 to 11AUs away. At it's closest it would take about 3 years to get there (ref. New Horizons mission), engineer a way to grab a ton of diamonds, and return with the goods. But first, we need a few missions to confirm if there are really diamonds.

Funny, given the Casimir effect, I would have thought that non-perpendicular geometries (such as parallel) increase risk of surface to surface contact.