Since I got my Transformer I never carry my netbook around any more - a tablet with a proper keyboard is good enough for everything I used to use it for. Why carry two devices when you can make one do both functions?

I don't believe they're selling more, but I believe they're making a better product. That was the line apple fanboys were giving us throughout the 90s.

I got two CRTs that do that resolution for $15 from my old school, six years ago (they were "upgrading" to flatscreens).

Um... yes? The ladies will be happy with that.

Most people who went into tech don't make as much as Zuck. I suspect top scientists (even the average nobel prize winner is only the best in a given year - Zuckerberg has done better than that) make similar money.

If being able to hit something 600km away is all a carrier is good for, shouldn't missiles have made them obsolete?

What is gun culture / military about, if not killing people (or at least animals)? I can appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into handmade guns, but that doesn't seem to be what most gun nuts are about. Being able to aim steadily at a target is an interesting skill in the same way as driving or carpentry (though with less to show for it at the end), but guns are disproportionately popular for that to be what it's about.

As a brit I've taken to reading TIME. The writing seems to be better than our own magazines, and it's nice to have something without the focus on local politics and crime.

One of the interesting things about quantum computing is that it's fundamentally impossible to copy a qbit (hmm, wait until hollywood hears about that). So the cloud service really couldn't have logged what it sent back to you before it sent it.

More to the point, I suspect this proposal works by sending entangled qbits into the service, keeping the corresponding pairs, and getting back something that can only be turned into your answer by combining it with what you kept. This isn't the same as what you're talking about - the client literally just stores a set of bits and combines them at the end, like an xor. So it's like that story from a few months ago with an encrypted database that could run queries on its data without decrypting it, but better in that a) it works for free, for any computation, you don't have to design your database for it b) it's quantum encryption and thus provably unbreakable

You're supposed to use WebDAV for that. It's not as nice and easy as sftp, but it does work.

New lines (the channel one and this one) are being built to European standards. Given how long it would take to cycle through replacing all the bridges, I think that's probably the best they can do.

Surely it can't be that simple, or I could make a copy of Apache Harmony, randomly include one bit of OpenJDK, declare it a derived work and thus covered by the OpenJDK patent license? Have I missed something?

Only if you mean the long term after their patents have expired. They've refused to grant a license for apache's Java implementation, and one can only assume they must have some level of control over "Open" JDK (otherwise I take openjdk, modify it by removing all of the code and replacing it with apache harmony, and done).

If you're using ATM like most of Europe then it's (IIRC) 56-bit cels that matter.

Nah, the city of Westminster covers most of what we think of as "London".