This is what happens when you don't read the directions on the package...

Why does this work so hard to sound organic, when it seems more like a boldfaced ad for xbox?

A virus will always find a way.

Next thing we know, someone will find that the people responsible for tracking those vials mysteriously died from the same pox. "Gee, Professor...I wonder what's in these?"

Insurance companies shaping coverage/billing based on client data? Shocked, I say....

Can you say red-lining?

It's always a bad idea to assume a good idea.

While attending Apple's WWDC a couple years back and looking around during the lunch break, I noticed indie devs looking at the corp devs with envy, lamenting how great it must be working for a big company with all those perks, resources, tight social connections, regular paychecks, etc.

Listening to the corp devs, they were all eyeing the indies, jealous of the perceived freedoms to set their own project priorities and schedules while eft alone to focus on whatever they liked at a given point in time.

....we've used one now for a while, and it is a great device (hardware), but the learning algos (software) need improvement, I think. Sometimes it learns too well and gets overly aggressive with predicted settings, making it difficult to re-train. Remote access is great.

"Microsoft is now pushing Bing Maps exclusively"

...counting down to the eventual outcry over upcoming changes to BING licensing restrictions that will further profit MS

FoxConn is a leader, so take note...

That has already begun. China is already outsourcing to the US.

I remember the thimble IBM used on one of their early laptops long ago, so...no, thanks.

yet another landing concept?

How many of these does the public have to fund before NASA admits to simply trying to stay employed, for cripe's sake.

I love armchair climatologists.

This is true....don't ask me how I know.

Back in the '60s we were all practicing hiding under our desks and being told we'd all be dead from nuclear annihilation by the end of the decade - just because that didn't happen doesn't mean Mother Nature isn't prepping our demise this time around. The machines will be able to figure that much out and be satisfied to bide their time.