... were former physicists. Granted, we're mainly a NASA/NOAA contractor so the domain knowledge is very useful.

The Post glories in pun-based headlines. Witness today:

Rebooting the reputation of computer legend who helped defeat Hitler

For a story on a posthumous pardon for Alan Turing.

I bought three years of prepaid tuition for my son and daughter in the early 2000's, about four years before the first one went to college. I liquidated investments in an UGMA fund to do so, reasoning that the prepaid plan would appreciate at the rate of tuition inflation.

Tuition was frozen in Maryland that year, and didn't increase at all until the first child graduated.

And to make things worse, the UGMA was mostly stock, and partially stock in ... Apple.

1998 - iMac
1999 - iBook
2001 - iPod
2005 - iPod shuffle/mini/nano
2007 - iPhone
2008 - MacBook Air
2010 - iPad

When Apple releases a category killer, typically it takes a year or two before it is recognized as such (the iPad is the exception above), then they turn the crank and improve it year over year, making serious money for a decade or so total.

Note that they only have to do that about every three to four years - note the 2001 - 2005 gap (which could be extended to 2007 if you lump all the iPods together).

We should worry if Apple hasn't had a New Shiny Thing by, say, 2015, giving them some slack due to Steve's departure.

... 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.