Maybe it is time to use all that productivity to pay back China, just sayin'.

Move to Zimbabwe then.

I wonder if he thought his arrest would be anything like Walter's failed arrest.

I never undrstood why, at least for technical people, this was such a big issue. Really, it isn't that different from what used to be. It's been years since I only use start menu for typing what I'm looking for... if ever, and that's exactly what I keep doing with Windows 8. If anything, I find it to be faster, Windows 7 sometimes lags for long before showing up results, Windows 8 almost always shows results immediately (Sure, MS could have fixed the performance issue without changing the looks, but then again, I don't think that's such a big deal). On the other hand I think there are bigger issues to be talking about - both positive and negative. Like start-up time, I find it dazzling that now I have a computer ready to work in like 10 seconds, where before I got to get a coffee before the computer was usable... But NOOOO people are really annoyed about the stupid start button, go figure. And what about privacy issues with the new Windows 8.1 search? I know it has been talked about, but why are people still complaining about the stupid start button? I believe that every start button discussion should be turned into the privacy issue of Windows search.

That's right, the poster got it ALL WRONG, Did anyone opened the PDF he referred at 'actually billions'? According to the study its 'actually billions' what foreigners pay in the US to educate themselves, around 21 in fact:

(Emphasis mine)

This whole discussion has no reason to exist. The US owing the world an education is not an issue because nobody is being educated on US pennies. Even more, this discussion is border lining on xenophobic suggesting that education should be denied to paying students based on nationality.

Yet this particular version of Windows is not intended for Win32 apps; it is intended for Metro apps. There are probably other reasons to keep Win32 cruft, Windows internal dependency is nightmarish.

You can compare Microsoft not allowing ISVs to write Win32 apps for WinRT (Which is WinNT underneath) to Apple not allowing ISVs to write OSX apps for iOS (Which is OSX underneath).

You know the drill: "They probably wouldn't have payed for your movie anyway, if they absolutely had to pay for it".

Also, I've been robbed on the street, and I don't recommend it. I'd rather be pirated on the web as long as I still make money.

Not trying to win an argument, I actually support your point. But just playing devil's advocate:

You might have been told so, several times. But experimental data, like friends driving drunk before you, and doing so fine and without incidents, might tell you otherwise. Until you experiment yourself how impaired you actually are, you might be aware of how it "affects [your] decision making capabilities".

Still, if you've been told, you cannot say you didn't know, only you didn't believe it.

If I had to guess I would say that despite the fact that the chip capabilities could be very broad and open ended, they will market it for detecting garlic, onion and hamburgers, and you will have the option to buy "an update" to detect chocolate cake, vomit and turd.

Breath-alyzer? The first version will come hard wired not to work as such. You will have to buy version 2, twice the price, and then it will only work 3 times a month. You will be given the option to purchase the unlimited version of the app for only $19.

Physical pictures do deteriorate, but as someone below noted, digital pictures will go to hell with the first hard disk failure or power surge; and even if you're running backups to safe keep your memories, one day you will not be here and you can't count on someone taking over your backup process.

At least from my experience, physical pictures from 50+ years ago while deteriorated, are still very useful as memories of my grand parents and before.

Also, I know for a fact, home made ink-jet prints have a very low will to survive to slightly humid weather. So, I wouldn't count on home made ink-jet prints to leave memories to my grandchildren. I would hope Walmart prints will be at least as enduring as my grandparents old pictures; if not better.

Exactly. Every time I want to print something I have to run a cleaning routine because every time the piece of shit is plugged.

Microsoft did not say they wouldn't be evil (not that this fact lets them off the hook, they just weren't that hypocritical).

Google on the other hand....

So, according to you, one can only reply to comments in a manner that is pleasing and reassuring to the comment you're replying to.
Also, the fact that your shitty comment is scored as '4,insightful' only confirms that /. is a community made of self-reassuring Linux-fanbois/MS-haters.

Not being a US Citizen I always thought that was the reason for the right to bear arms. In my head this is how it went: "Once independence was attained, and it was peaceful again, there was an intent to reduce the weapons owned by the civil population. But people had to trust power to someone, and if this guy went batshit the population could get caught defenseless. So the ruling class ceded the right to bear arms as a guarantee that the government will not try to do crazy shit on the people". Of course I might be wrong. Having always believed this, I think that original reason for the right to bear arms is outdated (I find it difficult to picture how that would go, also i think democracy works reasonably well, and differences would be solved democratically rather than at gun point). But I can understand that there are other situations in which having a gun would be useful. Only I think that in the US people get overexcited about guns, it quasi-religious.