Plenty of people advertise that kind of information on Facebook. You can even indicate who your parents are on there. And they made it so if you get married you can still list your previous name so people can search for it.

While people are dumb for publicly giving that kind of information away (at least set your profile to private!); banks and other financial institutions should also have more rigorous security questions. Even better is what I've seen some sites do where instead of having 5-8 predefined security questions, they let you write your own.

I take it you don't consider space exploration important. Despite what you think, space exploration should be something near the top of everyone's list to worry about.

Why? A multitude of reasons, firstly the perpetuation of the species. If we can live in space and/or on another planet, say Mars. In the event of a major widespread illness or natural disaster, there would be enough people living on another planet to survive. The second reason is population, with 7 billion people on the planet it is getting pretty full, we need new places to expand. Thirdly, natural resources, we can probably find lots of much needed natural resources on the other planets in the solar system.

Being able to have space stations in orbit or other places in the solar system would allow for the safe R&D of dangerous technologies, for example if research on infectious disease could be done on a space ship or space station, in the event of an accident they wouldn't risk the entire planet.

Plus space exploration has a major trickle down effect on a lot of other industries. For example long range (like to go to mars) space ships are going to need efficient long term power generation, food production and high speed communications, compact life support systems, all that technology can be applied to other areas here on earth. Not to mention all the jobs it can create since people need to design and build that stuff.

All those rockets NASA burned up during the Mercury program to get a working launch vehicle that could send an object into orbit paved the way for all the satellite systems we now enjoy.

As for the people that died in 1986, while tragic and completely avoidable, we have to realize some people are going to die pioneering this frontier. Sure NASA has been caught twice now (Challenger and Columbia) taking some safety for granted but that is a fixable problem. If you think they should have stopped in 86 because of the loss of the Challenger, they should have stopped after the Apollo 1 fire killed three astronauts. But it didn't stop them, they figured out what went wrong and made to design changes to prevent it happening again. And with Challenger while being negligent in authorizing the launch, afterwards they did redesign the O-ring system to better prevent the issue from happening.

Yes that was very tragic however that wasn't really "death by GPS", they were using paper maps. They got trapped due to a combination of BLM not having the gate closed for a logging road that was impassable for most of the winter, not turning back soon enough and missing certain road signs.

What happened to the Kims was sad and certainly could happen to a lot of people for sure but isn't the target of the article in question.

Well the letters aren't really that cool per-se but a full ride scholarship is. That is actually a lot of money and if you don't need to spend any money on school, it means while in school any money you earn you can spend on whatever you like. And when you graduate you will be part of the minority that don't have student loans to pay off.

People idolize sports and entertainment stars because they are famous and rich. This competition probably won't give you much fame but it will make you rich in the sense that you won't go massively into debt paying for school like your peers. And really I think it is much better to be rich than famous.

If you read the article, it is an issue that isn't apparent right away (Intel had to use a extraordinary testing conditions to cause it to happen) and when it does, the 2 SATA3 ports are unaffected. From the Anandtech article:

So it isn't like your computer is unusable, most people will never experience the issue between now and April when replacement boards are available. So the CPU you bought is hardly worthless.

Seems to me that they are handling it well enough, clearly they are working with their vendors to make the process easy. NewEgg will either give you a refund now or a replacement board in April, no questions asked.

I think part of Microsoft's problem is that in the Office and OS markets in particular, their biggest competitor is themselves. They've made their products good enough where people don't bother upgrading when the new version comes out.

They could intentionally break backwards compatibility with former products to try and get people to upgrade but that doesn't really work for them. Case and point: they ended up releasing the backwards compatibility add-on so Office 2003 could read and write the 2007/2010 file formats.

I doubt they will really give up trying to break into new markets, they have their huge install base of core products to fall back on. It isn't like they are hurting for cash.

As soon as I read the summary I thought about this. People do weird stuff with tagging, I know some people that will tag someone not in the picture as a way of telling that person that they should look at it and like you pointed out people will tag pictures without people even in it.

That kind of renders the feature less than optimal. They are trying to rely data that by its very nature is unreliable.

Isn't there some way to put your friends into groups on FB? If so, if you could set the feature to only draw from certain groups of friends it would at least give you a better chance of getting it right.

Please tell that to the companies that make computer monitors. Models that run at 1920x1200 are much less common now, they've all gone to 1920x1080 which is sad.

While you have a point, as history has proven, buying legit doesn't always protect you from malware. And haven't there been cases where viruses and malware has gotten onto the installation discs of legit software at the CD factory?

That isn't an argument against buying legit software; my point is even with legitimate software you need to keep an eye out.

In fact if you were to do that, you could use snapshots with your VMs to make it even easier. With your trusted VM after each use or every few uses roll it back to the known clean snapshot and you can make new snapshots after important security patches.

And for your VM for naughty activities you could just roll it back to the base snapshot every once in a while to ensure it hasn't been compromised.

I find the irony of FB (and Mark Zuckerberg) not wanting the public to know much about the companies financial information amazing. If only they cared about their product (aka the users) the same way.