Much better now than several years in, like my PS3 YLOD. I don't mind going through the RMA process for a dead-on-arrival product, but struggling with losing all of your data is miserable.

2. a well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel
3. (figuratively) a person, or thing, who strongly defends some principle

They're also web-safe dithered gifs, which makes me feel like I'm viewing them in Netscape

Those humans we don't like are going to get killed one way or another -- using robots to do it just means that humans we DO like don't get put in harm's way killing them.

As long as the "humans we don't like" refers exclusively to people working to the detriment of mankind, I consider that application of robots beneficial.

In my perfect dream world, every single product I want would be easy to buy at a reasonable price whenever I want, and buying it would give me complete ownership over my copy.

People don't just pirate things because they're thieves; piracy often offers the highest quality product, hassle-free. That it's free is just gravy on top.

Well, reading that article, it sounds an awful lot like ONE Delta pilot didn't want a Surface. Though I'm sure we can trust Apple Insider to remain impartial...

Works well enough for the artist behind Penny Arcade, who gave the Surface Pro a rave review:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/02/22/the-ms-surface-pro

Not to get into a pedantic-off, but it's an acronym because it can be pronounced as a word. If it wasn't a word (like "BBC" or "ATM"), it would be an initialism.

Huh, I didn't think the title meant literally crappy.

If you think Google-ing things doesn't yank you back onto the grid, you're gonna have a bad time

The reason it looks weird to you is because "Cybercriminals" doesn't match the verbs in the sentence.

It either should be "Cybercriminal Has Heroin Delivered, Calls Police" or "Cybercriminals Have Heroin Delivered, Call Police"

Ex post facto refers to acts already committed; there's nothing stopping a law barring future instances of that act. So they can't make a law saying that having purchased an old car is illegal, but they can make a law saying you're not allowed to drive it anymore.

I think it would be great to start equipping all motor vehicles with (well-designed, forwards-compatible) systems like this so that in 20-30 years when driverless cars are a viable option on the road, there's the infrastructure in place to support it.

Yeah, but we already knew about all of those. I don't think I would have ever guessed that my 3D printer was emitting nanosized particles at all, let alone consider whether that might be harmful.

The point of scientific research is to tell us stuff we don't know, and I did not know this.

Advanced software will come with time. All they'd have to do is open the API and run an app store, and they'd be set.

The hard part is getting people to wear the displays in the first part.