They already did that. It was set in New York and starred Sarah Jessica Parker.

Sounds like the same "private" information that every candidate and party has access to during the election campaign and on election day. Not sure about the birth date, but everything else is definitely on the voter registration and tracking printouts used by poll clerks and by party scrutineers during the election.

My firm is still heavily e-mail, but that's changing with Lync and, to a much lesser extent, Yammer. Looking forward to a time when these alternate options improve the SNR on email so it's only the important stuff that makes it to the in box.

A lot of short conversations happen over Lync, and the screen sharing/audio features are great when the team is spread all over the country/globe. The audio capabilities leave a lot to be desired, however. IM ports were blocked as recently as a few years ago so this is a big advance.

Yammer has a lot of potential, but you need to filter out the "It's my first day" and "I like ice cream" comments. It works best to build communities of interest, and lets junior folks get involved in the information flow. Plus, it has the potential to really shorten feedback loops and keep FYI stuff off email. Here's hoping that M$ does a good job of integrating the functionality of Yammer into Outlook and SharePoint.

For the legacy options, I get about three phone calls a year on my office phone that aren't spam or a group broadcast. I'd really prefer if they just routed the land line right to email. We also have a fax machine somewhere for those odd times you need to file an affidavit or buy a house.

The only snail mail I ever get is trade pubs and brochures, and that makes me a heavy user. I dropped a pile of Christmas cards in the office mail for my junior staff and I was still getting the odd thank you email reply in June.

Toronto Hydro already does this in the downtown core - 6 km2 of coverage using utility poles:
http://www.onezone.ca/

As long as Amazon forces the sellers to honour the price, then I don't see a problem. Pure market forces will balance the risk/reward for dynamic prices - if one or two consumers get lucky, then that's the cost of doing business.

The biggest mistake that the exchanges made following the flash crash was to cancel the errant trades - if you fuck up the pricing, you need to deal with the consequences. Getting rid of downside risk removes half the equation and blocks any incentive to play smart.

This is a RIM problem, not an industry problem. RIM's sales are way down because their technology is outdated and they can't get their shit together. If it were an industry problem we'd be seeing reduced volumes and purchase prices across the board. By that measure Huawei's success is a more accurate harbinger of what's to come.

Can't help but think that RIM's current situation is a lot like what Apple faced with Copland back in the mid-90s. After several years of trying to build their own next-gen system they gave up and purchased NeXT, which we now know as OS X. After numerous OS delays and corporate near-death experiences they finally launched OS X Public Beta in 2000. Given that 90% of current Mac users never touched Classic, there is little shared memory for the bloated, buggy mess that was Mac OS 6-9.

RIM was in the same place two years ago, with a nasty software stack and no ecosystem. They responded by buying QNX. Even with the latest delays they are still going to from purchase to market faster than Apple did with OS X. Same fundamental problem, same solution, dramatically different outcomes.

Surprised that they chose to digitally edit his nose and chin. Since this is Game of Thrones I just assumed that they were going to add a pair of tits.

This type of boat is probably too limited in usefulness to be adopted by the navy. In terms of R&D capabilities it feels a lot like the experiments from the 1960s to develop militarized hydrofoils - the Canadian HMCS Bras d'Or being one good example. Despite impressive stability and speeds in excess of 60 knots (70mph), the limited load capacity and range made the prototypes unsuitable for military use.

The biggest hit, however, was the introduction of missiles. The difference between 20 and 30 knots isn't all that important when you're defending against a Sea Sparrow running at 500 mph. In WWII there were lots of destroyers running in excess of 35 knots. Now it's just the nuke-powered ACs that do top speeds, and everyone else is more worried about conserving fuel.

That means the proposed boat is really just a replacement for patrol vessels or stealth assault craft, and it doesn't look like the advantages of the design outweigh the compromises in handling, noise, carrying capacity and cost.

Pretty much everything in your post is wrong.

PIN plus RFID interception = SFA. With an EMV-compliant transaction the message is encrypted and the key can't be pulled off the card. EMV encryption has not been broken, and that's not for lack of effort. You could take the entire EMV message and post it on the Internet with your PIN, and nobody would be able to do anything with it.

Plus, very few fraudsters use pinhole cameras any more - it's generally done with tampered PIN pads.

Older contactless cards emulate a mag stripe transaction, but if the bank is too stupid to catch someone putting the contactless info on a mag stripe then it's their own fault. The message here is that the US needs to get its act together and get on with the EMV conversion.

Speaking of Classic 2D, I wonder if they will just drop half the frames to get to 24, or do some post-processing to add motion blur back in. If it's the former you'd think that the result would look very stuttery and unfamiliar. Our brains expect blurring with 24 frames/sec, so unless it's there the end result could be annoying.

Sure, but the only thing worse than an IQ test is every other form of intelligence measure. Claiming that the test has issues (it does) should not be used to divert attention from the fact that some people are very smart while others are mind-bogglingly stupid.

It's like saying that thermometers suck because they don't account for wind chill, humidex, UV exposure or different peoples' metabolism. You may be correct, but I'm still going to check the temperature before going outside.