Chrome OS is nice for some types of device, but won't replace workstations any time soon. Some tasks just need more power and flexibility. There is room for both, just like there is currently room for many different workstation operating system, or both laptops and tablets etc.

We have made a lot of progress on that front, actually. Most people live well into their 70s now, compared to being lucky to reach 30 a few hundred years ago. Many diseases are easily curable or have been eradicated entirely.

We are still improving. We might cure death one day, and in the mean time we are getting better at making death dignified and peaceful.

For most of us death isn't nearly as bad as it used to be, and probably not the hardest thing we will face in our lifetimes. We don't allow it to be, we do everything we can to make it bearable.

Malnutrition has measurable, physical effects on brain development. If you measure the average amount of growth a child's brain does from birth to adulthood you will find it is less if the body is starved of nutrition. The effects are permanent and irreversible, and cannot be fully counteracted with education. The brain is simply less able to grow and to learn during those critical early years.

Of course. If they can't make a go of it because they are dumb or lazy, well okay, but they should have the same opportunities in life.

As for criminals, one mistake in a person's life, or even a bad period, should not prevent them from reforming and becoming productive members of society again.

So there is some circumstantial evidence and the conclusion that because the hack was executed at a high level, it must be the government. And then the accusation that China is motivated to take down Github, even though that is clearly a futile goal that never had any serious chance of working. Maybe for a few hours, but it's not like Github would just give up and close, and the projects it hosts would call it quits too. So it is so highly skilled that only a government could do it, but also incredibly naive and doomed to failure.

Neither side has presented any convincing evidence. This is just going to keep happening because it's so hard to accurately trace cyber attacks.

Yep, especially since he was probably bisexual or just gay. The bible even says so, describing how he hung out with naked young men and lived with his BF for a while. I wish someone could invent a time machine just so we could get pictures of Jesus kissing another guy and force all the extremists to confront it.

It's still a current project:

http://www.ard.jaxa.jp/researc...
http://www8.cao.go.jp/space/pl...

They are exhibited it recently: http://global.jaxa.jp/area/ssp...

They took a major step forwards with the technology only weeks ago: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-j...

Microsoft is different because end users find the bugs and suffer the consequences of them. Failure to fix problems looks bad. On the other hand the NRC has every reason to keep issues quiet or ignore them if they are not public knowledge, and certainly little reason to go looking for them. As long as nothing really bad happens they will keep getting paid by the industry.

JAXA (the Japanese space agency) has done the maths and decided it will definitely work. They describe the system in detail here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/green...

JAXA intends to test the technology in 2018.

Is there anyone in the entire country who would fulfil that criteria?

F1 is incredibly expensive so they have to make the cars incorporate technology that will eventually filter down into production road cars, making it possible to view the sport as R&D. That's what drives most of the changes these days, a desire to test things like hybrid performance engines and new tyre technology. For example quite a few cars incorporate a version of the KERS system now.

We can't over-react to every random incident where someone decided to cause a lot of other harm either. Look at how badly that worked out for terrorism.

In Europe workers do have a certain expectation of privacy at work. For example, your employer can't read your private emails even if you use a company computer to access them at lunch time.

Exactly where you draw the line isn't entirely clear. I'd have thought that an aircraft's cockpit would be a reasonable place to put a camera. I imagine the main objection from the union is that the airline will be looking over their shoulders the whole time, which could be dealt with by making it a rule that the recording only be in the black box and only accessible in case of an accident.

The one reason I ever bother using Twitter is to communicate with companies with whom I have a problem. If I get bad service I write about it on Twitter. Having to do customer support in public usually encourages a faster, better response in my experience.

So far British Airways is the only one that has not responded well to tweets, although they did at least respond.