Back in the 1980's, eradicating a fruit fly infestation here in California was all the rage. Towards that goal, then-Governor Jerry Brown backed a program to spray malathion from helicopters, at night, over the affected areas. When complaints rose over people being poisoned, they tried to minimize the dangers by pointing out how diluted the spray was. Brown's head of the program, B.T. Collins, on TV, drank a glass of the spray mixture. Literally. Something about proving how safe it was. It was totally worth it to see him, after drinking it, bending over and wretching, live on TV.

15-year old script kiddies control the world's economy through their successful hacking of the sole world currency.

I saw his name and couldn't believe he was still alive, let alone active. According to his IMDB bio, he's 84 years old and he has been, more or less, acting in movies and TV, since the movie 2001, save a period in the 1990s. He is currently a regular in a TV show! Go, Keir! You rock!

Bill doesn't need a weekly income. He's perfectly content drawing off of his investment portfolio. Besides, he and the other 1%ers just received a windfall annual tax cut that probably is more than the combined salaries of hundreds of working stiffs.

He was also a virulent racist and anti-semite, so there is that.

This has the potential of making Intel recall the floating point bug times with great fondness, nostalgia, and affection.

What is left unsaid, however, is they're hiring experienced individuals who don't expect compensation commensurate with that experience.

Companies typically have tangible assests and sales to support their stock prices. What is supporting bitcoin's valuation. I suppose one could argue that it's price is whatever somebody is willing to pay for it but that seems awfully close to being a Ponzi scheme. This feels like the dot com bubble that blew up at the beginning of the century when internet companies had ridiculously high prices without having any sales. Pets.com anyone?

In other words, what sustains its price if there aren't any tangible assets supporting it? I guess you could claim that it's value is whatever somebody is willing to pay for it but that's awfully close to sounding like a ponzi scheme. It may be me but this feels like the dot com bubble earlier this century when companies with no sales had ridiculously high valuations based on forward looking sales estimates or other such nonsense, big words meaning nothing. Pets.com, any one?

That new headquarters isn't going to pay for itself, you know.

Was the published worth based on the content of the paper documents or on the physical documents themselves? I doubt digital copies of the documents have the same value as the originals. What they do have is the ability to be disseminated easily to those who do wish to study them and, presumably, with a longer lifetime. The originals, however, still have value as historical documents (at least to HP historians) and, thus, should have been better protected.

Since the AF disabled the S band and other transponders, one of which was probably for command and control, the capability of controlling it, if there was any way at all, is gone. After 10 years, I doubt that there is much in the way of orbital maneuvering that can be done, in any case. For small sats like this, they may have had a small amount of gas initially in order to place the thing into the proper orbit after launch but that probably ran out years ago. I'd suspect that the bird is fixed in its orbit and will only change if the orbit begins to decay and it eventually re-enters the atmosphere and burns up. Not much can be done about that.

I was synchronizing my iPad in iTunes when I saw there was an update available. After some research into what was new and what problems the early adopters were seeing, I decided to wait. My IOS 10 works just fine and there is no pressing need to upgrade yet, so I think I'm goona wait

How? One of the biggest on the whole planet run south to north smack dab in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean separating the North American Plate from the Eurasian You may even have heard of it. Its called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The two plates are continuously pulling apart from each other, generating earthquakes all the time. You lay cable across the Atlantic west to east, you have to cross it

That's because we have been lied to all our lives. It's a major reason we here in the US are suffering from obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and a host of other ailments related to poor nutrition, bad eating habits, and processed foods full of salt, sugar, and bizarre chemicals designed to make the processing companies wealthy and the people who eat that shit unhealthy.