If memory servers, the cell platform in a PS3 doesn't allow you to use all of the cores when you're running linux. So, for the price of a new ps3, they could just as easily use commodity hardware from last year and probably get better throughput.

You're correct that resources are badly allocated at present, but it's a fallacy to assume that simply reallocating money will fix it. You know what would happen if the US forcibly liquidated Warren Buffett? Every American would get ~$200.

The tensile strength of an eventual space elevator material is not related to its electrical conductivity or resistance. 10,000 miles of a conductor will (currently) weigh more than its own tensile strength could support.

Primitive indeed :)

Would you please explain the difference? Nobody forces you to do either. They're both morally objectionable to various groups of people, but not universally so.

Maybe I'm a bit jaded or detached, but I fail to see how offering lap dances is fundamentally different from offering free beer. It's cheap fun, and some people may find it morally objectionable, but in the end not a single attendee is going to end up bumping uglies with one of the dancing girls. Had the cheerleaders for an NFL team been there in tight shirts and tiny skirts waving pompoms nobody would have said a word.

My favorite way to demonstrate crumple zone effectiveness (I have that kind of life, what can I say) is to have a friend that doesn't see the point put on a hard hat and headbutt the wall. Next, I duct tape a few pop cans to the hard hat and have them try again. Guess which one hurts less? It usually gets the point across.

How's that stable and seamless linux port of Chrome coming?

Rather than picking the ribbon interface, why not do something new and different? If not new, at least different? In an application that I'm currently building, I use a tree structure for menu navigation where the nodes are circles with text inside them. It works perfectly for the Sims, and it works equally well for menus in my business app. There's no reason to use all of that screen real estate at the top with a dorky ribbon when you could simply have a Firefox button that expanded to different options as you drilled down.

Imagine all of the false positives this thing will generate from youtube comments. "Ur fukin' retard Subaru is better than Mitsubishi any day" "NO U" "Ima come to ur house and killy ur retard family!"

If your company has branches in all of those regions, chances are there are quite a few people in the crowds that feel their time is worth far more than yours. I would create a supplemental handout / electronic document rather than discussing points that aren't in the exact scope of what you've been asked to discuss. Speak specifically about social networks. Provide literature about your other concerns.

It would pose a danger if you were in the area. However, submarines aren't usually found in surfer territory and anybody swimming in the North Atlantic is probably glad to see the plane. As for marine life, you can make the sound of a high enough frequency that marine life will be unaware and unaffected. It's not like we'll be using this as a bitchin' megaphone for unencrypted voice.

As for getting data out of gmail, the concern with a discovery case is rarely as simple as getting email from the user's mailbox. Usually you have to recover it from backups. How long do you know (not think or conjecture) that Google keeps deleted emails around?

The line-of-sight distance you can cover with cantennas on cheap wireless cards is pretty astounding. I know enough people, who know enough people, who have old wireless cards and extra computers...

If your population, when considered as a whole, has little in common with the greater union then there is little point in remaining in the larger union. One of the reasons that city, county, state, and federal governments exist in the US is because Omaha, Nebraska has no clue what Los Angeles, California truly needs.