Medical oversight also ensures, as much as possible, that there are no treatments remaining that may be able to recover sufficient quality of life to avert the need for suicide. If the go-to response to suicidal tendencies was to go see a doctor for support, we may see a sharp decline in mental health-related suicides.

How someone can twist the ability for a suffering human to request, of their own volition and under extensive medical supervision, assisted suicide, and turn it into a slippery slope fallacy of death camps and selective culling of the population is beyond me. There is just no connection outside of your ever so slightly deranged brain there.

Restrained or executed is a bit much. Forced labor at a SWAT building as janitor for 10 years though? That might work. He's not violent, he's stupid. Let him bask in his stupidity.

If both Opera and Chrome fail to work in such a fashion, I'd double-check my OS install. Those aren't pieces of software that generally misbehave like that.

Anecdote incoming: I have moderate dyspraxia, particularly in the legs but still somewhat in the upper torso/arms. This means I'm incredibly bad at sports, I have a complete lack of reflexes, and I generally am awkward at moving around. I learned piano and violin at a young age and wasn't too bad at them. I'm now working on a computer every day and need fairly good typing skills and muscle memory, which goes against what dyspraxia does.

I consider video games to be one of the major reasons I was able to actually develop those motor skills in the first place. I've been playing them since I was 3, and it's how I've learned to type, speak/write English, how I honed my reflexes, and it's a large part of why my hands aren't completely useless at complex motor tasks (they're also incidentally how I ended up doing what I do for a living). TV shows are able to give you a basic understanding of a language, and I definitely used them to learn as a kid, but video games, and most importantly playing video games socially, have been a massive catalyst and accelerator. I wouldn't be able to write like this or speak without a thick accent if it weren't for the many nights playing with friends from all around the world.

I disagree. They saw that their technology was outdated and, instead of dragging it for years as a giant ball and chain, they started from scratch, for the better. WinForms was basically the Swing of the .NET world, but with a much better visual designer. All the UI was built into the code as objects and the auto-designer would often make a mess of it, while building it manually was a complete nightmare.

WPF, in contrast, completely rebuilds the software stack in favor of a more cleanly separated MVC-ish approach, with the M and C being built in a regular .NET language while the view is entirely constructed in language-agnostic XAML (basically XML). This is very similar to how Android works, except Microsoft is typically more verbose than Android.

While it does mean UI developers had to relearn everything, modern WPF applications can look far nicer, are much easier to work with and are more flexible than their WinForms counterparts. It's the same reason I applauded Microsoft's controversial decision to rebuild DirectX from scratch with version 10, but looking at how messy OpenGL development still is I can't help but find it was the right call after all.

How many stores used to sell ham radios, nascent computers, electronics components and more? Contrast with how many stores sell iPods and Android phones.

Perhaps "don't have anything to offer anymore" is the wrong phrasing. Rather, they don't have anything distinctive, yet are generally more expensive or come with more restrictive policies than Walmart, Best Buy or Amazon, while not offering better sales service.

If that's their goal, I wouldn't be surprised to see them buy Xamarin. It'd give them a serious foothold into the Android and iOS development space using their own technology and language as a basis. It would also go a long way towards cementing their claims to be taking Mono more seriously, since Xamarin sponsors Mono.

Most people have to hack their phones to install HTC Sense on a non-HTC device, voiding their warranty and risking to brick their device. Trying to install vanilla Android on a non-Nexus phone carries the same risk. I think there may be a flaw in your logic somewhere...

What in the hell? Is Cyanogen "rogue" because they're using the Android Open-Source Project as it was designed? Because that also makes Samsung, Motorola, HTC and every other manufacturer who reskins/alters Android "rogue".

This is all true, but it depends on the state of the society you're looking at as well. Propel humanity a few centuries in the future... It's plausible that we'd be in a post-scarcity society where energy is so ubiquitous and easily acquired (be it through fusion or another similarly efficient technology) that it no longer is a point of contention. In those circumstances you could envision building a giant space ship running with the best technology you can manage and power an Alcubierre drive with it.

You're also assuming that such an advanced species would necessarily care about the resulting shockwave.

Yeah, this was absolutely the right call. There were four possible scenarios here:

• -There is no snowstorm and the officials shut the city down. At worst, people lose a day's worth of work, some businesses are affected. Whiners abound.
• -There is no snowstorm and the officials leave the city running. Nothing happens, nobody notices.
• -There is a snowstorm and the officials shut the city down. Everyone congratulates them for their foresight.
• -There is a snowstorm and the officials leave the city running. Possible severe damage to infrastructure, possible death toll, cleanup is significantly more complicated and takes far longer. Officials are berated for their carelessness.

The best course of action by far is to shut the city down. The downside of doing so when there is no snowstorm is far lesser than the opposite. Those who complain have no idea what the fuck they're talking about (and who really expects a cabaret singer to have any knowledge of risk assessment and weather prediction?).

If your business and your work was a chaotic system involving billions of mostly random variables, I'd question your organizational skills. Unfortunately, you can't ask nature to sort her shit out.

If they're targeting key resellers, they aren't. The key resellers were the people covered by the first sale doctrine, whereas you as a consumer buy the key "second hand" from the reseller and therefore cannot claim any support under that doctrine.

It's the nice thing about American politics: equal opportunity corruption. Everyone gets their fair share!