80 million? I think several hundred thousand are just my throw away accounts.

so... 79 million?

This information looks more useful to the convenience store owners and clerks than to MIT educated statisticians. Even knowing the system, it's very hard to just stand there and pick out the tickets that you like, the store clerk would usually just rip off the first ticket from the roll. On the other hand, the clerks themselves have a lot of time to study these. I can image a pretty profitable scheme where the clerk would sell you certain tickets for extra 50% or so...

No one (well, almost no one) seems to mind when a mobile OS requires a faster processor, but the number of cores is suddenly an issue. Wake up and smell the 21st century. The not-so-recent improvements in performance come from the number of cores and not the clock speed. And it looks like this is the way it's going to be for a while. Get used to it.

oh yeah, leave it to government to ensure free speech online. Oops, the link doesn't work. I wonder why...

A beta version of a software crashes? Surely you must be joking!

Well, good for them. Everyone is complaining how the "big, powerful banks" are destroying our financial system. Well, here are some comparatively small guys trying to shake up the established players and suddenly they are being prosecuted. This is the kind of free market the government is afraid of, not the pseudo-free monopolized market we get through regulations and government control.

Apple just invented printing!

Interesting, given that Intel is already producing CPU's and are part of OHA, are they looking to build an Android phone?

If I recall correctly (and I'm not a big fan), it wasn't something like United Federation of Planets, who tried to colonize Pandora. It was a private company, whose assets were probably destroyed during the last part of the movie. So "humans" would have a tough time coming back with 100x more firepower.

Meat inspections? I've recently discovered a note in a pack of organic eggs from an free-range farm. The note said that a new law that the FDA is instating will interfere with them inviting people to visit their farms. All other requirements in that new food safety law were already implemented there. Waging war? Yeah, that turned out extremely well in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Verizon doesn't offer FIOS or DSL in your building?

More like O'Brien. At first glance, he's an anti-establishment agent, determined to break down the oppressive system. But once he lures you in, you'll experience psychological pressure like never before and you will be assimilated!

[1] See list of past planned economies.

I'll take free market fairies over government bureaucrats anytime.

I tried Emacs a while ago. While I found it to be a superb operating system, I couldn't find a good text editor for it.