At this point, I think it's safe to say that we're in another tech bubble. But at least we can have fun seeing which bubble bursts first (HFT, medical, student loan, or tech).

As a shareholder, I fully welcome this move. This shows that Tesla is so confident that they will continue to dominate the electric car industry that they don't even have to stop others from trying. That kind of confidence goes a long way to securing business deals with companies who might otherwise hesitate to jump into bed with a company that is still relatively new in a market that is only just starting to emerge.

Where have you been? Everything is a matter of national security!

Now they just need to get a FISA warrant rubber-stamped or use parallel construction to make sure that the evidence is admissable.

I can confirm this. I had FIOS (75 MBps) and there were points where I couldn't even get YouTube videos to load at 240p. I found many complaints of other FIOS users, especially in the Northeast, with similar issues. Some users claimed that they could restore the speed by using a VPN or a different DNS server. I felt that I shouldn't have to do that, so I accepted an offer to switch to the other evil ISP empire. My new 25 MBps connection loads YouTube videos much faster than Verizon's 75 MBps connection.

After a public offering of new shares, what value does the stock market really add for that company? Sure, there are some things it helps with such as an approximate value that can be used for acquisitions, but once a company offers a set of shares on the market and collects the money from the buyer, those shares are essentially chips with the corporate logo to be bought and sold among gamblers in the world's biggest casino. At that point, those shares do little to create actual value in the real world.

If I am going to pay for a service or product, the company that provides that service or product had better officially support my platform. I realize Linux has a very small marketshare, but Netflix has already gotten their software to run on other flavors of Linux that run on phones, tablets, and game consoles. If they would just get it working for one or more major Linux distributions, then they would have themselves a new loyal customer. But I'm not going to give them money to run their software on an unsupported platform that could break at any point in a new software release.

Are you sure? Based on Apple's history, they sure don't seem to mind replacing huge parts of their infrastructure while completely deprecating the old:

Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X
PowerPC to Intel
Carbon to Cocoa
32-bit to 64-bit

I'm not disagreeing with most of these transitions, but they sure don't mind having their application developers rewrite substantial portions of their applications because of the shiny. I wouldn't be surprised if Objective-C was no longer supported in five years.

Because they are finally admitting that Microsoft has superior UI design and they are trying to catch up.

Samsung and LG want curved TVs to become all the rage because the only way to currently make them are using OLEDs and they own many of the patents for OLED screens. With that said, the Samsung OLED television got a glowing review from Consumer Reports - basically the only downside to the TV was the cost which is sure to come down in the future.

I've always been curious about full disk encryption but I've never taken the time to set it up. Regardless of whether or not this was precipitated by a three-letter agency or not, this makes me want to use TrueCrypt even more. The next time I format my drives, TrueCrypt 7.1a is going on there (assuming I can verify it's signature).

As for everyone wondering about the status of the project, couldn't the project resume development off of U.S. soil? Between software patents and government spooks, the U.S. is definitely becoming a more hostile environment for software developers.

This makes perfect sense - you no longer need the portions of your brain that store your hopes and dreams, so those portions can transition to finding ways to push your kids to be good at something so that you can live vicariously through them!

Sure, you'll have to rewire your house every few years, but that's a small price to pay for a faster and more portable house!

Nobody is arguing that iPads are used by executives - the argument is that iPads are no good for people who actually have to do work.

No, 2016 will change something.

The only thing that will change in 2016 is which person has a bunch of rich hands up their asshole controlling what comes out of their mouth. Everything else will remain exactly the same.