How do you think they count the number of unemployed people for official figures?

I'm fairly certain (and I just checked wiki for what that's worth) that he didn't go to college at all. He just started programming when he was very young and he seems to be a really smart guy. Minecraft is definitely a resource hog, but the performance gets better with just about every release for me. So, that's a great sign since performance is getting better at the same time that more features are being added. To everyone that says the code is crap, write your own well-programmed game that millions of people want to play. I'd rather have a good implementation of a great idea than a great implementation of a good idea...

They've been in my grocery store recently, but they're in the old packaging from the 70s or 80s, so I think it's a temporary novelty thing.

The only point it could possibly convey is that some users know more about the internals of their phones than others. That doesn't convey anything about the intelligence of a user.

Being ignorant of technology doesn't make a person stupid. Some people just don't care about how gadgets work. I know it's hard for geeks like us to relate, but many smart people don't give a shit about the differences between Atom and A4 processors (and yes, I realize the A4 is based on the Atom).

You're very misinformed. They haven't dropped the X number of DVDs at a time service. They are offering a new $4.99 service that limits the number of DVDs per month to 2 and includes 2 hours of streaming.

Umm, if you don't care about the streaming, the disc-only plans are $2 cheaper. I'm your Netflix polar opposite- I think I've checked out 3 or 4 movies in the 2 years I've been a member, but I stream constantly. So, I dropped the DVD part of the plan and I'm paying $7.99 instead of $9.99.

This is also addressed in the article and I disagree with the guy that wrote it. He basically says it's the cost of doing business and that the B&M stores have to keep up with all the laws. I think that argument is crap because the B&M stores have real people working each location, and some manager is responsible for setting the tax rates in the POS software. It would be ridiculous for Amazon to have to keep up with every single special purpose district in the freaking country.

While the Declaration of Independence is law, it is not the Constitution. That's the point GP made.

Sure you can. You just have to play an average of 3 or 4 nights a week, every week. You also have to be really, really good and really, really flexible. You have to be literate as a musician, though many people refuse to be. Reading and writing music is absolutely necessary if you want to make a living unless you're extremely lucky. It also helps to live in a metro area of at least 500,000 or so. You need to be good enough that you get called when any show is coming through your town and they need local musicians. You'll probably need to be in a great cover band that has a consistent Wednesday or Thursday night gig at a popular bar. If you or someone in your "main" band is a great songwriter, you might even make a few bucks playing original music. You're going to have to be in several groups and generally refuse to play for free unless it's something you're just dying to do.

Basically, a musician can make a living, they just have to work their ass off to do it and won't always be playing the music they love, just like any other job.

What did they do that's wrong? The dumbasses without encrypted networks were broadcasting their information out to a public road. The Google vehicles were in public when they received the plaintext information. If the people were outside screaming their online banking credentials out loud and Google happened to be driving a car with microphones recording ambient noise at the time, would that be illegal?

I agree. We're definitely not spending enough money on our military here in the US...

I'm sure your well-reasoned argument would immediately win over their heart and mind and they would be forever changed.

Where I used to work, there was some Windows setting that wouldn't allow USB drives to mount. Keyboards and mice worked fine, and you could plug in your smartphone to charge it, but the drive wouldn't mount. Anytime I plugged in my phone, I'd get a little dialog saying that the OS wasn't going to mount it as a storage volume, but it would still charge. So, it's entirely possible to set up a situation where keyboards and mice work just fine and people can charge their phones and mp3 players without a security risk.

It's also specific wording from a journalist. For most journalists, running a client on your computer that is taking part in a DDoS attack can only be done by a true computer genius criminal mastermind.