The blockchain is already close to 40 GB in size, and now people want to store all sorts of other data (or metadata) in it. I can see this getting out of hand rather quickly.

Miners won't be able to store the entire chain anymore, so only a few archival nodes will still have it. Just how secure and accessible will your metadata be then?

They did not force any competitors to raise their prices. Anybody was free to offer their book for a lower price, as long as they offered the same low price on the iBookStore.

It sure will be attractive compared to the new drachma.

Yes, you can. It's called derivatives. Sell silver you don't have, buy gold that nobody has, eat your heart out. They can send the price pretty much anywhere they like.

Neither do I, as long as they remain consistent and let 0 times 0 generate a random number.

I don't mind as long as they remain consistent and define multiplication of 0 times 0 to be a random number.

The plus doesn't work very well anymore, half the result pages simply don't contain the word. They seem to use this as an indication that that word is slightly more important but not actually required. Which can be quite infuriating when you are searching for a specific site you know contains that word.

Well, for example, if you get something like

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[UINavigationController setList:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6a33840'

You can search for "Terminating app due to uncaught exception" NSInvalidArgumentException "unrecognized selector sent to instance"

(In this case, the search actually does appear to work correctly)

Usually, just copying and pasting some static part of the error message is quite helpful since others will have pasted the exact same words in some help forum.

That usually does improve things, but not always. I often still get results as if I hadn't used any quotes at all, even though exact matches do exist and are displayed further down. And even a "+" in front of a word often gives sites that don't contain the word at all. Tip for Google, if someone writes "+" in front of a word, that really really really means that they really really want that word to actually appear on the page. Really. I'd rather get no results at all than a bunch of sites that don't contain the word.

Nah, they just rolled out a big flat poster on the supposed lander site. Can't tell the difference from orbit.

No, they were just trying to fake their flights around the moon. "See, we really sent a probe around the moon, here's the proof, we've photographed the Apollo landing site!". In reality they just photoshopped a lander and craters on some sandpaper.

Yes, they first tried to do it in the Nevada desert, but they couldn't get the sound right.

O, yeah, when a flaw is found in iOS, you can just switch to Android and buy all the same apps you had on iOS. And then when another flaw is found in Android a couple of weeks later, you switch right back to iOS again. This time it's even easier because you only have to rebuy the apps you bought since the last switch. And if both platforms have open holes at the same time, well, just use an oldfashioned dumb phone for a while. Oh, you might even try a Microsoft phone (do they still make those?) for a while. See, plenty of options!

Same for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Just buy multiple versions of all the apps you use in the office and you're all set. Or maybe try Haiku, I hear it has zero exploits in the wild.

Take a look in your KeyChain to see what else it stores that you may not even know about. Logins for websites, for example.

They will get backdoored as well, since most politicians keep using normal civilian tools (hotmail, iPhones, USB sticks, etc.) no matter what ultra-secure tools you offer them.