Suppose that future humans decide to use historical genomes to reincarnate past humans. Would you want your body restored? If so, you'd better have your chromosomes sequenced.

Polaris is a sneaky, underhanded, deceitful star, not to be trusted. Fortunately, in about 15,000 years, it will no longer be the north star. Sir Alop

Hackers know that if you leave a dozen or so thumb drives around the parking lot of a target company, at least one person will be unable to resist looking to see what's on it.

You people in California are breathing some of that Beijing pollution.

American companies are seen as cash cows in Europe. Microsoft, Google, and others have been subjected to sundry relatively frivolous suits, merely to extract cash from them. The companies must not have bribed the right Europeans.

A natural application for a transporter.

Imagine what's next. Real-time, 24x7 monitoring of the entire solar system, as well as the interior of our bodies, including our minds. We'll need custom programs to keep out the vast majority of information beyond our ability or desire to process, but we'll have a much better awareness of our precise situation, which will improve our evolutionary survivability. I wonder if any tech companies are looking this far ahead.

How easy it will be to commandeer another's life by hacking their master controller (i.e., smart phone). Centralization of control invites attack.

Would one of you please provide some non-wonk information useful to average users. How to disable Java? What effects will that have on the browser, operating system, and apps, if any. What millions of users have now is a warning to disable Java, without any idea of the effect it will have on their system.

In fact, the biggest cosmic structure ever seen is the universe itself. Obviously.

Link to an Irish newspaper? They needn't worry.

A true writer would be writing a book about the experience, rather than embarking on a quixotic quest to silence her deranged ex.

Islam, however, is welcomed.

Odd facts about the number 2013. It's not evenly divisible by 13.7. Also, it's the only odd number evenly divisible by 1 between 2012 and 2014. Shazam !

U.S. taxpayers give over $1 billion (with a "b") to Egypt every year. Why not give part of that as software and keep the software engineers working in the U.S. It's called tied aid, and every country uses it for foreign aid.