The battle against overly authoritarian shitheads is not a 30-year battle. It is likely an eternal battle (for moderate values of the concepts of "battle" and "eternity").

(There is no Islamic State in the west, but there are other examples one could name. For example: despite mountains of evidence to the contrary there are still hundreds of millions of people in the western world who think that sending drug addicts to prison is a great idea.)

It is also not a battle that can be successfully fought by anyone who does not picture themselves having their great grandchildren live in the region, because only those who do will have the stamina to keep fighting forever. Americans or Europeans can't be responsible for fighting the battle for a Middle east free of The Islamic State, or whatever other pretentious banner these guys will be fighting under next year.

"Why ten? Why not nine, or eleven? I'll tell you why: cause ten sounds official!"

"So having ten commandments was really a marketing decision."

Multiple uteri at any rate. Our ability to grow organs and have them live outside of the human body is improving rapidly. I don't think it is too far out to imagine that we might one day grow babies inside artificial uteri outside of the human body.

If science keeps progressing there may come a day when only the poor make their children the old fashioned way.

Two words: population growth.

The population density is just way higher in Africa nowadays, which makes it easier for diseases to infect more people and spread farther away from the community where the initial outbreak happened.

Just remember that you will probably have many moments when you think that the tool doesn't solve the problem adequately, when in reality the tool does actually solve the problem adequately if you know how to use it. The real problem then is that the tool comes with inadequate documentation, or that it needs more or better tutorials and sample projects for novice users.

This guy has jurisdiction over more than 1/10 of the planet's land area: http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Note the part about forcing .ru websites to have their servers in Russia where they can be shut down at the discretion of the leader. I suspect this will first be condemned by western countries, then copied.

If one prefers to use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to write applications there is this thing called a "web browser" that can parse HTML and CSS and run JavaScript, as well as access various local resources on the device.

It often works reasonably well on phones and tablets too!

Penis in anus sex has a much higher risk of transmitting HIV compared to penis in vagina sex. We're talking something like a factor of ten difference.

It has always been a little bit mysterious that HIV manages to spread epidemically among heterosexual people who don't use iv drugs in Africa. I don't know if this mystery has been resolved yet.

Yeah, the reason why these anecdotes are believable is that they are based on criminal investigations and court proceedings. As you might guess, some of those hundreds of men were not too happy.

Little known fact: a person with HIV who has access to the right retroviral drugs and takes them on time is practically unable to transmit HIV during sex. There are now anecdotes about HIV positive men who have had sex without using a condom with hundreds of non-HIV positive men without a single instance of transmitting the virus.

Of course, these people still transmit other STD:s.

What about SUPER t, e, r, ENTER?

The good news is human fertility rate is about to skyrocket before that happens!

There are actually Chinese noname watches that are basically fully fledged smartphones with most of what you'd expect from a smartphone in terms of features, including a camera. Example: http://www.dhgate.com/product/...|1016721942

Good luck getting that battery to last you through the day!

That is unlikely, barring some miraculous breakthrough in radio efficiency or battery capacity. The radio in the watch would drain the battery way too fast if it was constantly communicating with other devices.

A lot of fun ideas about how one might use mobile devices fall flat as soon as you factor in the energy storage constraint.

This is a popular sentiment, and it is true in the simple sense that if other people are satisfied with 3 GHz CPU:s then you will be satisfied too.

This hides the real reason why clock speeds of new CPU designs are no longer increasing at the rate that that they used to. The reasons are basically that they current way of making chips has largely run its course down to a dead end where it is not feasible to increase the clock speed. Maybe someone will think of a better way to make circuits, but for now we're stuck in the 3-5 GHz range.

Now you might say "but seriously, 3 GHz is enough for anyone". To which I would say: game makers and the makers of software IDE:s will think of ways to waste any amount CPU cycles available. Any amount. There would be a market for 3 THz CPU:s if it were possible to could make them (and sell them at a reasonable price point).