Did nobody mention to her that planes are very radioactive partly because they spend so much time in the thinner atmosphere and partly because there is depleted uranium (which is more likely to cause heavy metal poisoning) used as weights within them? Sounds like a lovely material to build a house out of. Maybe she should paint the outside with lead based paint, water the garden with agent orange and then install asbestos for installation? Jokes aside - fools with their money. This fool sounds like she has a ton to waste and deserves what she gets.

They're doing Archimedes solar ray AGAIN? Aren't we up to three already (the original myth and two revisits)? Obviously I think it is fun that Obama will be on the show but frankly aside from that I really don't want to see that same tired Myth for a third time...

If I was in the US Government I would lean on mobile vendors like Apple, Google, AT&T, etc to ONLY support IPv6 for mobile devices (e.g. Android, iPhone, etc). That way you start to carve out a real consumer base with IPv6. If web-sites want to get iPhone users to their service they better support IPv6 ASAP.

Microsoft already has strong IPv6 support in Windows as does Linux. So there is no reason why ISPs couldn't switch over at any time but the issue is a chicken and egg problem with it being expensive and no consumers caring.

That's what happens when two massive companies run by old white guys have a stranglehold of the entire US telecommunications industry. Cable, Internet, and Cell services are frankly all horrible in the US both in terms of price and technology largely because of lack of competition. It is like BT in the UK before the government forced BT to sell to the competition. The "issue" the US has is that two companies sharing an industry isn't illegal, so they cannot use monopoly powers to squash it. Plus the two have anti-competitive agreement that allows them to control different zones of the country.

Text messages and texting in general is just a stepping stone before always-on internet becomes the norm. Once everyone's phone is online constantly you will see people use AIM, Skype, or similar products instead. Apart from getting an instant reply and richer, longer, content, they're also cheaper. If you're paying for always-on internet anyway (which I'm assuming everyone will be) it will cost you nothing additional to message someone. Frankly the cell phone companies are only speeding up this process by charging, what most would agree, insane prices for text services. Right now 300 texts costs as much as "unlimited" (1 GB/month) internet.

What I never understood is why the patent office doesn't implement some kind of crowd sourcing? I mean patents are public goods so instead of having the patent office review them, why not just stick them on a web-site and ask the public and industry to pick holes in them? And then the patent office only have to examine the ones which are controversial.

I could never find the correct degree of commenting. Didn't help that in school they made us comment in an idiotically verbose way to the point of "this is a for loop to find needle in haystack" and we lost marks if we failed to. My reaction to that level of stupidity was to lose interest in comments entirely which obviously later bit me in the butt.

I really need to find some kind of "idiots guide to when to comment and when NOT to comment."

Just want to clear up something - Ryanair's marketing strategy can only be described as "trolling the media." They release more and more insane ways to "cut costs" on their airline which the media reports and everyone leaves with the message that Ryanair are very serious about low cost flight.

To give two examples, they "announced" they wanted to remove toilets, and remove seats so you spent the entire flight standing. Nothing ever came of either of these, but the media loved it, and they get the CEO on the airways who just repeated the companies business model over and over again - "looking for more ways to cut costs" "I want Ryanair to be the cheapest in the EU" etc.

iTunes 10 is an improvement. Apart from the almost useless Ping, it seems a fair bit faster. The patch notes claim performance improvements and frankly I believe them. I'd recommend it. Only downside I've seen is that the first time you try and download from iTunes Store it attempts to trick you into activating Ping (click Cancel when it asked you for personal information that "might be available to the public.").

GoDaddy sell both. Are you sure you know what you're paying for?

Target already sell Farmville and Mafia Wars credit in individual cards and have for almost a year. The only difference here is that it is a general Facebook card so you can use it across all of the games (and Facebook get a much bigger cut). I don't play these games but I find it funny how hypocritical most gamers are about them, it is fine if you buy DLC for that retail game you spent 50 hours playing, but if someone buys virtual credit to buy DLC in Farmville they're just insane!

It is obviously just a lame bias against games that are Flash based (instead of C++) and have minimalistic graphics (like every game had fifteen years ago?).

Isn't it about time we had the Linux, Windows, and OS X guys sit down and agree on a standard for booting into multiple Operating Systems that wasn't invented in the early 1990s? I mean, just create a VERY simply little standard everyone can agree on that simply allows boot loaders to be called.

I know, I know, insanely wishful thinking. Unfortunately there is no benefit for either Apple or Microsoft to ever agree to even the concept of multi-boot since it is against their respective business models. Maybe we should have a third party create the standard and then pressure Microsoft into signing up for it?

Sorry but that is creepy dude. I do the long distance thing, and trust me, I wouldn't even want what you suggest. But that being said I like to try and be helpful so my suggestion would be a Network Web-Camera which you can purchase from NewEgg (wired or wireless), which you'll be able to remote into, and then have a PC with Skype or Live Messenger running, with auto-answer enabled, that has your face / audio. Then get a router with Dynamic DNS support, you then visit the Dynamic DNS address on a particular port that you have forwarded to your network web-camera, and dial the Skype/Live Messenger account - which will auto answer. They can then speak to you by approaching the computer and talking into the desk microphone, and you can see everyone from the web-portal/Java Applet provided by your network web-cam.

I can tell you right now this will fail and I can tell you why - it will cost less to run a heavily armoured vehicle than it would to fly even a lightly armoured one. It would also cost less to produce and be easier to maintain. Oh plus safer from ground fire and rockets.

But apart from all of those blindly obvious holes, this is a grant plan.