lol. Also the same wonderful people who brought us Zyklon B.

Just develop a pill that "cures" female aversion to bald (or balding) men.

Problem solved.

This is really about how older people are experienced to know a boondoggle when they see one. (Example:the cloud, and how it's basically about trying to take control from the user and seeking rent). Older people don't buy into the bullshit and get off my lawn, and thus are seen as not wanting to embrace new technology. Its not that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, it's that the old dog knows that it's all a bunch of crap

But sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.
(- Sigmund Freud).

Security researcher and Tor developer, Andrea Shepherd, found something fishy:
http://www.techdirt.com/articl...

It was just a political stunt to try to appeal to nationalist sentiment. Probably ill-considered, and we would not have seen it if there weren't presently political tensions. Whether Musk won or not, he got some publicity out of this.

Most of these acquisitions are really about marketshare, and killing-off competition. When there is market-overlap, the purchasing company is buying that marketshare - and a certain percentage of those customers will abandon it; but some will stay. The abandoners will not likely go to a single (biggest) competitor, but often be scattered, which makes the purchasing player stronger as top-dog. When there is no overlap, it's usually for the purpose of keeping other companies who are nearby in the marketplace, from getting too big and bridging over. They'll talk the talk about "synergy" (which usually means, trying to bundle semi-related products as a suite, to vertically integrate) - but this is usually bullshit.

Source: been through three of these "mergers". Symantec is the devil.

all of that other shit is just pie-in-the-sky garbage.

The only proven method is a cap-and-trade.

We know this, because it worked with chloroflourocarbons.

What is less-certain, is if the carbon we've already released, hasn't already done irreversible damage.

.... develop a display panel which ONLY emits IR (not visible light).

Mount such display panel adjacent to your license plate.
Connect display to computer which outputs randomly-generated license plate numbers, every half second.
Result: Scanners "see" hundreds of different plate ID's, among your own.
Data collection foiled.
No Laws Broken.

The year 1995 just called: "what's a manual transmission?"
Followed by - The year 2050 just called: "what's a transmission?"

Really, if you need to start your car, nothing beats that big old hand-crank over the front-bumper!

Lol; a BMW key will set you back at least $80, for any BMW less than 20 years old.

# "The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity"
-- C.A.R. Hoare

In the early part of the last century, automation reduced the labor amount for producing food drastically. This reduced it's market value. Probably far below its real value. (when you consider that that value is actually a composite of the food itself, and the water used to produce it, and the soil, and how we burned through the water and soil at a much higher rate than it can be replaced).

So if you want to blame something, don't blame "urban hipster douchebags". Blame the invisible hand for not being able to use basic science to look 100 years into the future and see how growing the population to 7 billion people, while burning through resources at an unsustainable rate, is going to make the concept of money look like a complete fraud, within the next generation.

You're accusing Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush of being pussies? (ie. Civilized).

3 times the electricity cost is actually pretty cheap compared to one's water-bill, or what one spends on gasoline, on average, and what we'll all be spending on electricity for running AC 24/7 everywhere when global warming really starts to kick in. (not to mention all the hundreds of millions of people who will have to relocate, and the hundreds of millions who will starve to death when we can't grow or distribute food anymore)

How much is a livable planet worth, anyway?