Really? Those are the big concerns? Here are my concerns. They'll run people and animals over and fail to drive properly in heavy snow or rain or GPS will put them through a farmer's field.

The number of stalkers, kidnappers, and identity thefts just got slashed by them allowing fake names. It's about damn time. Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, and Hitler posted a comment on my Google+ page that they're very happy with the change as well.

They forgot the golden rule of IT. If your company has the #1 worst rated consumer customer support and the #1 least reliable laptops (emachines beat them at desktops) then don't create a brand new technology that people will be hesitant to use. You pretty much have to be the exact opposite. Only the best company can come out with something new, claim "just trust us, it works perfectly and you should use it" and have people believe them. I really hope this finally bankrupts them so I can stop having to put out HP-induced fires at my business. I'ms serious, two dc5700's lit on fire.

I have a better idea. Buy a laptop. Encrypt the entire hard drive. Clip the gold pins on the ethernet port. Disable all USB ports in the BIOS (most can do this). Then remove the wireless card completely. Tada, a typewriter.

"said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public"
Well, I guess who know who is getting fired.

People with brains don't cut back on energy use. What's easier? Every single person, as in millions of people, lives like a post-apocalyptic refugee and uses 50% less power while the population continues to increase by 50% quite quickly
or
That power plant down the street starts pulling power out of thin air with solar and wind and everyone keeps doing whatever they want. Gee, I wonder which solution is more durable. There is no level of power saving that will fix climate change. It HAS TO be fixed at the source.

I looked at that shot side by side with a verified Win8 U2 release of the start menu (which is now cancelled) and it's basically the exact same thing. So they already slapped users in the face by saying it will be in a fall update to 8.1 then cancelling it. Now here comes the other hand for slap #2 that they're pretending it's a new development or invention. They just stole it completely from 8.1 U2.

Didn't their market research branch let them know that this has no widespread practical use and nobody wants this? What is the motivation to replace my monitor with this? For an ultra-thin cell phone, it has major piercing damage risk issues. I just don't see this taking off. It's like making a smart watch just because you can but conveniently forgetting that nobody wants one.

Time for a fun trivia question. What language is the majority of the internet written in? (it's a slight majority but it's a majority)

Well then let's name it Slashdot.

As a small business owner, I can tell you that the even more hush hush method of payment is bartering. There's no trail or taxes and honestly I don't think it should be taxed either. That's simply because of the annoyance of estimating value and the near impossibility of drawing it from owner's equity to drawn income.

If I want to pay a 14 year old computer repair enthusiast and intern/assistant without 1000000 forms to fill out, I give them property that can be flipped for cash extremely quickly like game codes from the Nvidia promotion. That's how small stuff will be handled without cash.

That's just dumb. Fiats don't start most of the time. How are they going to crash if they don't start?

Nooo, sexily plug in a bitcoin-enabled USB flash drive into their USB socketed Gstring. Of course, having to flip it around like 17 times before getting it to connect correctly because of its false symmetry might get annoying.

I can't believe I forgot that one! And Dovahkiin.

Fact 1: Most 16 year olds I know these days can't spell.
Fact 2: An adult has 2x the brainpower as a child, especially with decision making, because of frontal lobe rearrangements that happen during teen years

So it's really quite stupid to teach K-5 kids chess instead of reading, writing, and spelling.