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.

There is no common ground. The far-left Democrats who have captured the party believe in spending and taxing. Period. Republicans believe in protecting the middle class from over-taxation, believing that the private sectors better allocates money than do the various levels of government. You can't reconcile fire and water. Try and you'll get steaming ashes.

Remember what it's like when you open an oven to take out cooked food.? That blast of air is what Death Valley feels like in midsummer. Automobiles don't like it there, by the way.

Haven't you heard? Taxes are for the little guy. The person who can't afford to hire an expert to guide them through an endlessly complex code. The person who can't afford to hire an expert to guide them through an audit. The person who can't afford to hire a lobbyist to badger Congress for tax breaks. In other words, the middle-class American taxpayer. The sucker.

The American taxpayers paid for the initial development of the Internet. Result? First Amendment trashed. Online companies are turning cyberspace into the equivalent of an American university (or should I say monoversity), where one is free to express any opinion one is allowed to.

For reference, that's about half the width of the U.S., or about the length of Japan.

But only if one observes it, according to Young's double-slit experiment. Right?