I just encode messages by changing the font of the letters in the hidden message to comic sans.

If you can't trust BlackBerry you can't trust Silent Circle either. Or Good, or MobileIron. BlackBerry has a long history of doing the right thing. Do they work with the NSA? I'm sure they have no choice in the matter but they are known for pushing back against data requests. I mean they were the only company that fought the backdoor request of the Indian Government. And even once they complied they only gave them a way to decrypt BIS info not BES.

This sounds like a pitch for a replacement to Good Technology or BlackBerry BES or MobileIron but tied to a single Android phone. I mean the headline says it's a secure phone but it looks like it will require Silent Circle as the communication go between. You can do that now on Android, BB 10, and iOS with BES 10. No special version of Android needed. Hate on BlackBerry all you want but they know security.

Hand it over to IEEE or another organization to steer its development. Oracle doesn't exactly want what's best for Java.

Wait? Oracle controls the C++ standard and the future of the language? When did THAT happen and why wasn't I informed?

The images my mind just created... I need help!

Everyone is thinking it but everyone knows Larry doesn't give anything away for free. Even his free software costs you money somewhere...

If you live less than 20 miles from the Gulf perhaps. Anyplace you have a higher than average risk of a natural disaster you will pay for it. My rates didn't increase at all and I am ~70 miles inland.

I live on the Gulf coast. If I were offered a job on the West coast they would need to nearly double my current salary for me to maintain my current standard of living.
And they didn't just say no we can't offer that much...they fired the guy's boss for even suggesting he be paid that much!

Funny you should mention food

OMG this would be hilarious if it wasn't true!
I've been working on Windows since 3.0 and working on Windows 8 was the first time I have ever been stumped as to how to find settings I've used most of my life. I sat bewildered for hours when I first started working with it trying to figure out the basics.

So how do you program them without said human's intervention? Humans are fallible so all things produced by them are also fallible. While "I Robot" and "RoboCop" are fictions they address very real concerns. It is not a matter of if but when will these systems make incorrect/inaccurate choices and kill innocents. And corruptible humans will sell these things under the table to less than scrupulous individuals for protection/collections purposes. Tanks and missiles go missing from the military all the time.

Many brilliant men have invented revolutionary things they intended for peace...only to be horrified at the twisted things men are capable of when wielding them.
"My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions,"
"As soon as men will find that in one instant whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace." ~Alfred Noble

So...30+ monitors is coincidence and electro-hypochondria? I'm guessing you never stuck a magnet up to a CRT or had to Degauss one. Since the Earth has this gigantic magnetic field surrounding it it's not hard to see an unshielded CRT being affected.
BTW...How do you think I figured out which direction North was?

Back in "the day" a little company that called itself Sceptre made these wonderful 14" CRT monitors. I had a few clients that had them and they were nice for their price. But every other one we set up would have crazy sync problems and the screen would just wave. Perplexed I called Sceptre to get some insight. The technician matter of factly and very serious instructed me to point the monitor toward the North Pole (we were on the Gulf coast). I suspiciously complied once I figured out which direction was North and viola! wavy screen went away. We had to rearrange the furniture.

Who is we? Everywhere I see a story about Kodak I see the bulk of the comments stating they waited too long to go digital. Kodak made their money off of consumables and no amount of digital camera sales would have off-set the loss of those sales. It would be like every man and woman on the planet switching to an electric shaver. Schick/Wilkinson Sword would shrivel up in a matter of months. The only reason Gillette would survive is it is a P&G property and they'd just use the brand for something else.