Remember when everyone was excited about this game in development called "Halo", and MS went and bought that up?

Not too surprised here.

And yet, a corporation is a person.

FYI,
http://www.belden.com/resource...

I like this idea.

"At this stage the tax should be on the odometer; read and applied when you renew your insurance."

I heartily agree! But you know they're just dying to mandate GPS in your car so they can track you... for taxation.

I'm down with paying by the odometer (maybe by withholding as income tax, so you don't get a big hit when the odo gets read), but I worry that the government would take the next step to GPS.

"What can I say, I like fast cars. And electrics get you efficiency and torque."

Have you seen any of the electric motorbikes? They are starting to get good reviews, and that's from a "fun" standpoint rather than a "green" one.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

In much the same way as a security system, be it alarms or cameras: by making it easier for the police to apprehend the criminal.

Neither of these things actually prevents someone from kicking down your door while you're away and grabbing something and running away with it.

Copying down serial #'s for your equipment is the action nobody ever takes. It's the low-hanging-fruit when it comes to theft preparedness.

Oh, uh, you weren't actually expecting anyone to actually back away from a model like this, were you?

Adblock plus has a stopper for those things. The list to subscribe to is called "Antisocial".

"most of your protection has always been logistical"

The Key Point

"My immediate reaction to seeing Facebook was buying it was "well, there goes some promising technology"."

Everyone still loves the VR idea though. I think Notch and all the others will just be looking for the runner up product. Which all the Me-To folks are working on. Sony and Xbox are already on that train, I understand. Hopefully there will be someone to sell me one without a walled garden that they're trying to push.

How much IP is there around the oculus? I understood the rift to be mostly an implementation of better / newer technology, not so much new invention, but I could be off. How hard will it be for others to pick up the baton?

"It what sense is this like being killed off?"

Oculus wanted to sell you a monitor. It's in 3D, it straps to your face, it tracks your head, it does a bunch of way-cool stuff, but fundamentally it's just a screen.

Facebook doesn't want to sell you a screen. Or a keyboard, or a THING. They want to sell you an ECOSYSTEM. They want you to provide them with your data. They want you to be their product. Their continuing revenue stream.

I just want the screen.

Insightful!