How am I strawmanning it? I mean, you're the one that brought ventilation back up as a solution, not me. It's almost like you think the solution to a problem and it's cause are somehow connected.

By the way, I love that the title of the OP is "are we engineers or politicians," and then advocates working on a solution without identifying the cause of the problem first.

Why are you talking about ventilation again? Look, we can argue about whether or not there's a ghost in it all day, but please, I just want it fixed. And no more talk about ventilation. I'm not pushing my ghost theory on you, am I?

My computer is overheating because

1. It has poor ventilation
2. There is a ghost in it

Which is the right answer?

Well, I know a better answer: who cares?

I wish the IT guy would stop trying to blame me, and telling me that I should take it out of the cabinet under my desk. I just want him to come up with a way to fix it, but one that doesn't assume that he's right about the poor ventilation while sanctimoniously discounting my ghost theory.

At some point, displays have a high enough resolution that the human eye can't tell when the picture is any sharper. We've got to be getting close to that, no?

And this is why I'm ready to jettison Facebook.

What seems more likely to me is that the next Xbox will run on x86-64, and basically run a stripped down version of Windows 8. So there would be no emulation fakery required. Sure, the first generation of games would require very expensive PCs, but three or four years down the road, a decent gaming PC could boot into "gaming mode" and play Xbox games easily.

Well, science journalism. So, tentative results from an animal trial using a compound that happens to be found in some wines (mostly red, but not all red and in some whites), cocoa, and peanuts leads to a headline about drinking in space? Really?

Pretty much. Google pulled out of China, at least in large part because they didn't like the hardline government there and the censorship they imposed. I respect that. Are they angels? No. But if we don't reward the companies that do right, what incentive do they have to do it? If enough consumers make choices in the companies we support based on their moral and ethical behavior, then we create an environment where companies compete to be perceived to be the most ethical. Hopefully, that will involve actually being ethical.

And this slippery slope leads to where? Package names that are completely inoffensive? Not all slopes are slippery, you know. If the package was named after a certain racial slur for blacks or referencing how much fun child pornography is, it wouldn't be allowed, so there's not total freedom now. There is some censorship right now, and the slope hasn't somehow slid the world of Python down into a totalitarian regime of... I don't know. Like, seriously, I cannot figure out where some people are scared politely enforced naming conventions will lead. Regardless, it hasn't led there yet, and not allowing names inoffensive to women isn't going to make the slope any more slippery. This slope has plenty of traction. Quit worrying about something so minor.

The author thinks they're the result of an overly litigious society, but a lot of these have to be firmly tongue-in-cheek. I mean, "Do not look into laser with remaining eye?" Someone threw that in as a joke, and kept on laughing after it got past editing.

Same here. My server is called Jesus Christ.

I already have a 3G android smartphone. It works just fine for what I need to do on my phone. I get email, I can surf the web, and I can stream music (but I don't go crazy with it). I very rarely use it for watching video. I just checked my usage this month, and I've just now cracked 2GB, about three weeks into my billing cycle. If I'm using this much data now, what happens when I get one of those 4G smartphones that they advertise showing people watching videos on them? If you're to watch those commercials, you'd think they were designed to be portable TVs more than phones. But even with their very hefty plans, you'll get overage pretty quickly pulling that much data down regularly.
My next phone will likely be Sprint, unless they go to a tiered pricing before my next contract is up. I know their 4G isn't as good as Verizon's.... but honestly, I can already stream Youtube video at 3G speeds if I put up with a little buffering, and Sprint's 4G is plenty fast enough to watch good quality video (the only thing I really see me needing 4G for any time in the foreseeable future). And, hey, you can actually USE it!

My wife recently got a job at Microsoft. She raved about how great the work environment is there, about all the little freebies, all that stuff. About a week after she started, she told me "I just realized why it's so great there. For the first time, I'm working somewhere IT is the asset, not the expenditure."

I think that's the core of it, really.