....the first floating Apple Store.

...did "do no evil" changed to "do necessary evil"

and until how long before it's just plain "do evil"?

I'm actually more worried if it turns out to be like The Abyss

Genes. Genes are patentable.

While studying the human genome, if some drug company happens to find a treatment for a given disease caused by a given gene, that company can patent the gene and claim that any treatment for the disease that involves affecting said gene (usually by gene therapy) is patent infringement.

What? No Demolition Man quotes yet?. Let me show how it's done

John Spartan: "Look, Huxley, why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?"
Lenina Huxley: "Eeewww, disgusting! You mean... fluid transfer?"

Password length is not enough. The reason they ask you to add numbers and punctuation signs is that common words for passwords are susceptible to dictionary attacks

Didn't DARPA offer an exact same reward for solving the exact same problem? If I didn't know any better, I'd say Professor Scammy S. Scamson from the UC San Diego crowdsources the effort, sends it to DARPA, keeps half for himself, half for "contributors", at absolutely no effort.

"Three weeks after undergoing a crash test, a Chevy Volt caught fire"

I think if you could not get out of the car within three weeks after you've been in a crash, you have bigger problems than the battery catching on fire....

From the article:
"According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health- the world's largest source of drug abuse research - marijuana use is associated with addiction, respiratory disease, and cognitive impairment "

Well, if that's your standard for keeping marijuana illegal, may I suggest adding:

Tobacco: Also associated with nicotine addiction, respiratory disease and cancer
Alcohol: Also associated with addiction, liver disease and cognitive impairment

Oh wait, those have huge lobbists behind them. Nevermind.

I don't see what's wrong with using the word tweet. I mean, I googled it and it does appear in wikipedia. Besides, it's not such a big news story anyway, I mean, it's not even slashdotted!

I have been where you've been, and let me tell you, what you are considering is a waste of money.

Moore's law applies particularly well to harddrives. Every two years you can buy a new hard drive that is twice as big, for the same price. Or pay half as much for the same storage capacity. If you stock up now, you'll spend a lot of money for something you can buy a lot cheaper in two years' time.

My advice: Buy new hard drives and replace them as you run short on space. If you run out of space inside your rack, move the contents from your oldest disc into the next, and you can sell, discard or get an external enclosure for your oldest disc.
Allocating massive storage without immediate need for it, is going to cost you a lot of money.

This is interesting. However you're stating than the appeal of open source software is not its quality but it's price tag.

True, however none have been this tiny. The keyword here is 'portability'. I work with laser projectors and come in these huge metal boxes that weight at least a 5 to 10 kilograms.
This type of portable displaying opens a lot of interest possibilities. Particularly, I'm thinking of Augmented Reality applications.

The article does not say how much power is in that microwave, but I'm guessing it has to be enough to fry a bird on the fly.
I'm all for cheap power, but someone will have to clean those antennae every time a bird drops dead from flying into the beam
And let's just hope no planes fly by during the "testing" period