This. I was actually surprised that people think Windows 8 is expensive. It seems to be cheapest Microsoft OS for a long, long time.

Sitting down with a bag of popcorn...

Exactly. This kind of reporting is already required by the SEC if it causes or could potentially cause a reasonable material change to your books. Same as if a dinosaur ate your CEO, or your data center was wiped out by a giant mutant butterfly. We shouldn't be specifying each individual case in law, the SEC laws are so complex that there are SEC specialist lawyers all over the place already.

The article has four pictures.

It has been shown many times in studies that people are able to read a lot of emotion by looking at another person's eyes. Looking at foreheads doesn't give you a tactical advantage, but if you can look in someone's eyes you can see what they are feeling most of the time. You can also see where they are looking, and where their attention is at, which is critical. Of course, good magicians know this and look at the wrong things at the wrong times to mislead you ;)

You should probably do some research on Fukushima. The control rods did drop when the earthquake hit, as part of the emergency shutdown, the chain reaction did stop as designed, and there was enough residual heat from fission by-products that the entire fuel assembly melted anyway.

Donating to the project, though, just helps to pay for server maintenance, connectivity, etc, correct? Donating money doesn't go towards hiring professional editors or anything. It just keeps the light on. If Harvard and Yale wanted to help on the quality, they shouldn't donate money, they should get a bunch of their faculty to start editing, right?

Maybe they haven't received as much attention because it's difficult to permanently blind yourself with a 3D printer?

Even given the half life, we may be able to resurrect dinosaurs. Remember that we are talking about information that is encoded, with billions of copies hanging around. Given we can find enough samples, even if they are all missing different portions, we may be able to piece together the complete sequence by combining the portions of each sample that survived. Throw in extremely cold temperatures like the article talks about, and some Jurassic-park style replacement of certain portions from modern animals, and it is still very possible. Maybe not today, but in 100 years I can see it being very possible.

"It's proven a busy month for mobile-device releases. Knowing Apple would be releasing the iPhone 5 to crazy acclaim from news organizations, and not wanting to be smothered, Nokia quickly shipped the Lumia 820 and 920 before they lost the lime light. The next day, Amazon, worrying over persistant rumors the Apple release could include a small form-factor iPad, quickly announced the Kindle Fire HD. Barnes & Noble, not to be outdone by Amazon, threw something out there to compete as well." It's all about marketing and timing, folks. Have you ever noticed how movie releases are carefully planned to compete for attention in the same way?

It's about intent. Law is all about intent, which is a very different concept for engineers sometimes (myself included). It's not about what you're doing, it's about what you are trying to accomplish. Take another example - purchasing 1,000 stamps and envelopes isn't illegal. But if you are conducting mail fraud of some kind, it's bound to be introduced by the prosecutor as evidence that you had the intent to commit mail fraud. Buying a gun isn't illegal. But if you buy a gun and then shoot someone the next day, the fact you bought the gun is going to be introduced to demonstrate that the shooting was premeditated. It's not about what you are doing. It's about the prosecutor making an argument for WHY you are doing it. In this case, to commit wire fraud and the other charges listed. Note none of the charges is for changing his MAC address. IANAL. IANAL!!!

Make sure you look carefully at how you are going to move money from your customers through your corporation to yourself, or you will really quickly understand what "double taxation" means, and it ain't pretty. Get a really good CPA who specializes in taxes if you're going to start a corp or any kind of business.

Replace "power users" with "99% of users" and I would say yes. Definitely yes. Computers are becoming (frankly, they are already) disposable consumer products.

Anything's possible, of course. But statistically, stories like this are always wild outliers. You could also win the lottery, and not have to work. But that's not a good way to plan your life.

From Bruce Schneier: Q: Do you know why I think you're so sexy? A: Probably because you're totally in love with me. Q: Need any weed? Grass? Kind bud? Shrooms? A: No thanks hippie, I'd just like to do some banking. Q: The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men. A: Go forth, and kill. Zardoz has spoken. Q: What the hell is your fucking problem, sir? A: This is completely inappropriate and I'd like to speak to your supervisor. Q: I've been embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from my employer, and I don't care who knows it. A: It's a good thing they're recording this call, because I'm going to have to report you. Q: Are you really who you say you are? A: No, I am a Russian identity thief.