People do not use Apple laptops because of how well they support greasing up the display ... touch is a sideshow for laptops and desktops, only Microsoft tried to make it a main event.

If the particles can get through cell walls they mights interfere with cell processes without being reactive, seems less likely than with the catalytic metal nanoparticles we are pumping the environment full with ... but I wouldn't rule it out.

I thought you were talking about SWAT snipers for a moment.

But the dollar is only stable because they are still increasing their reserves ...

It is the reserve currency because at one time it was as good as gold, any stability it had after that was because of inertia and because Saudi Arabia became a semi-state of the US ... the inertia is clearly running out, unless Saudi Arabia picks up more and more of the slack the US dollar will have to lose value as the US's trade balance adjusts.

I assume they have an architecture license and are not implementing some macro.

The fact that they don't have their own fabs is a bigger problem.

Degrading security in encryption code is a whole lot easier than putting an internet approachable backdoor in a microprocessor ... you aren't going to hide the latter in a single line bug.

If they let the position go unfilled I guess there wasn't really enough need, ie. not enough profit in it to hire the expertise which is on the market (and there are still plenty of the old guard doing consulting, not cheap obviously) or train someone.

Quick, we need more H-1Bs to suppress wages.

What if there is a single standardized receptacle and fuel, but it's actually the pump holders who want to force a multitude of ones?

In my opinion concentrated solar will continue to lose out, it's raison d'etre is the high price of PV cells ... but the concentrators themselves are never cheap, generally require tracking and can't efficiently handle diffuse light.

TressFX actually is open source though.

Mantle is the interesting one, we don't actually know if NVIDIA can see the source code of the EA games which support it (and for AAA games source code access is a lot more common than NVIDIA pretends, the big games get onsite devrel which doesn't make a whole lot of sense without source code access). You would think NVIDIA would be using it as an argument if they couldn't ...

In the end most people will still use anything but LISP.

Why steal all that shit when they can just own your computer with some zero day and wait for you to go to the bathroom?

Give each employee who teleworks a dedicated computer with hardware VLAN which he is only allowed to use on that VLAN (ie. no USB ports, no internet, no nothing ... if he wants to copy/paste something to it from another source sysadmins have to get involved).

It's the only reasonable way to allow telework on systems like this ... if you want to BYOD for that you should be redirected to the unemployment office.

Why do you say "the" database? They at the very least need 2 already. IMO payment data and logins need to be behind narrow firewalls with very limited pure socket (ie. not database) interfaces to the outside (why open yourself up to flaws in the database interfaces when you only need trivial queries?). Might as well split those up into two while you're at it.

"What if people don't want to buy the more fuel efficient cars?"

No problem, but they will lose the subsidies on the more fuel efficient cars. CAFE was originally not about carbon emissions by the way, it was implemented after the Arab oil embargo.