... needs to be the metadata of phone records for Congresscritters, and their staff. They're already required to log physical visits by lobbyists - seeing who calls whom during breaks in legislative sessions would be even more interesting.

Maybe that would convince them that easy global access to traffic analysis is too dangerous for routine government access.

The MacBook Air got so thin that it couldn't take the MagSafe charger cable from the rest of the portable line. It now has a slightly thinner version called MagSafe2, and yes you can get an adapter for your older power bricks - it's $10.

In their defense, Apple is doing what the market tells them to. Every time they take a current design and make it smaller/thinner/lighter, people line up to buy it.

... from the carrier, for the limited time window around the accident. I would have no problem with the carriers handling those routinely and quickly, since the data requested is much less intrusive than looking at everything on my phone (which is what they'll do if they take your phone at the scene of an accident).

... and emphatically NOT fine with PRISM or its derivatives.

The earthquake that caused the tsunami that made Fukushima break (whew!) also damaged several dams in the area.

One of them washed away five homes and killed at least four people.

In response to this, they shut down the energy source that didn't kill anyone.

... commercial space suit ...

Bill Gates frustrated because Microsoft is irrelevant in mobile.

Europe feeds itself and then some, and can likely do so for the foreseeable future; it doesn't need the increased yields and cheaper food that GMO adoption would produce.

Africa needs GMOs; cheaper food and nutrient-enhanced crops could save many lives there.

Africa can't adopt GMOs as long as they have to sell to Europe, and while Europe has its OMG-NO-GMO policies in effect.

Europe's anti-GMO policies are starving people in Africa. The morality of this is questionable.

Vernor Vinge coined the term.

And we really don't want it.

See above. One gram of uranium can replace a thousand kilograms of any chemical fuel.

Here. Refined nuclear fuel has roughly a million times as much energy per gram as any chemical source. Even counting the ore and refining, you just have to move much less stuff to get your energy - 1/100 to 1/1000 as much.

Built into my eyeglasses, encrypted link to a server *I* own which anonymizes my queries, nobody gets my data off it without a subpoena.

Google and the government can both go jump off a cliff.

Yes, the tax code is screwed up, but it's the only game in town. Unlike people with little disposable income, you can choose to do stuff that will reduce your taxes. Some of them are a pain, but they can cut your taxes by a third or more, mostly by doing stuff you are already doing or ought to be doing.

You have a house, and probably deduct your mortgage interest.

Do either/both of you have access to a tax-advantaged retirement plan? 401K, IRA, whatever - you should save at least everything your employer matches.

Do either/both of you use enough health care that a Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account would win? If you can predict your health care spending, you can probably pay for most of it in pre-tax dollars.

Gentlemen, you're right - I haven't looked closely at Xerox in a year or two. Ms. Burns had the right promoted-from-within credentials to run Xerox without grossly screwing it up, but it appears she did so anyway.

This just solidifies my plan to sell the Xerox stock I've had since 1988.

... which has had all female CEOs since 2001.

Xerox is not as exciting as HP, but its CEOs have not done large, showy reorganizations that destroyed once-proud solid engineering traditions, so there's that.