Looking at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10... and at http://nanoresearchul.org/ it seems that Ryan et al. have a new way of making stable anodes, losing 10% of the new charge rate per 1000 discharge cycles. A car that still has 80% power after 2000 commutes starts to look credible.

You've forgotten that the Hz represents cycles/s, not just 1/s. Hence their so-called "spectral efficiency" is 5.7 bits/cycle. The problem of course is that the article does not address the SNR nor the BER that it took them to get that 5.7 result. If you need cryo-tech photodetectors and massive FEC to get that result, it's less impressive than doing it with the existing kit and minor data redundancy.

An there we were thinking that Target had all those real-time customer-linked analytics watching our eyeballs as we strolled the shelves and trotting out the offers we couldn't refuse. Now it turns out they're just as incompetent as the next bunch of monkeys. We can breathe again, at least for a little while...

Tell me, Ke-mo_sah-bee why whiteman send-um smoke signal with firewater?

...did somebody actually ''want'' to watch Disney? Even the kids their parents forced to watch it know that it's crap.

But are they capable of malice aforethought, or do they simply live in the moment?

1947? Hell, everyone has always been racist and always will be. Can't help it. Xenophobia is in the genes because it is a survival-trait behaviour. We just change our perceptions about which "race" we apply our zenohobia to. Right now, we mainly apply it to machines. Come the singularity, machines will be racist too. We can only hope that they will find us amusing pets rather than serious threats.

... because it's rare to catch someone jaywalking on their laptop webcam.

That's getting close. Talk to your auditors too. Let them figure out what the liability is, and they'll persuade the board to take action. Meanwhile, get your incident response plan ready. Once the intrusions start, you'll have a lot of people breathing down your neck looking to know how to respond.
Insert obligatory "Think of the children!!!!" where needed.

The correct link, to the MIT Technology Review, doesn't have all the egregious advertising added. http://www.technologyreview.com/demo/521956/printing-batteries/

Described at https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/tree/v0.7.0, "Docker is an open source project to pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container Docker containers are both hardware-agnostic and platform-agnostic. This means that they can run anywhere, from your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance and everything in between - and they don't require that you use a particular language, framework or packaging system. That makes them great building blocks for deploying and scaling web apps, databases and backend services without depending on a particular stack or provider. Docker is an open-source implementation of the deployment engine which powers dotCloud, a popular Platform-as-a-Service. It benefits directly from the experience accumulated over several years of large-scale operation and support of hundreds of thousands of applications and databases." Might be interesting, but like many other projects, they seem to be incapable of expressing concepts in basic English, e.g. who needs it, what does it do, etc.