If developers are forced to update their apps, then owners of old iPad, Pod, and Phones will be forced to upgrade as well. My Ipads have been left at ios5 with no upgrade path available. Eventually, I will no longer be able to buy apps in the app store.

So your time is only worth $10/hr. So much better than minimum wage.

From high school English, there are 31 acceptable uses for a comma. Evil English teacher made us label every comma used in our writing assignments. I no longer have his list but found what appears to be an equivalent list here http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/punctuation/comma/

Your comments would be given more weight , if you were not an AC. Perhaps thou are a shill?

Absolutely. A random test of a cow supposedly not destined for the food supply gets tested positive. And we are to believe everything else is OK? I think a new guy on the job didn't get the memo and tested the wrong cow. Lets see how quickly they expand the testing. All QC policies I've worked under, allowed for decreased sampling until a defect was found, then a full statistically sample had to be pulled and tested.

Cthulhu in 2012. Why settle for the lesser evil?

It is very sound. California needs money. Amazon has it.

Free for Users, charge for companies.

My company just dumped Lotus Notes for Google Apps for domains - 55k users now using Gmail & Docs all for a flat rate per-person per-year which is much cheaper than our annual Lotus costs when you factor in specialized staff, admin, hardware and licensing.

How about the USPS? They have offices in every town and already process your paperwork for Passports.

How else can they verify your Junk Food Insurance Waiver, notify the Obesity Reduction Task Force as to your weekly consumption, and confirm your exercise log at your local America Works Out franchise.

Besides, it won't be papers - they'll put a chip in our heads.

Especially for the brain tumor era books. I Will Fear No Evil and The Number of the Beast come to mind.

Actually you and I are the only real readers of Slashdot. All the rest are insane or a bot.

Although sometimes I wonder about you...

Better to be safe than sorry. Google and slashdot should release the complete list of all ips that have every visited their sites.

Here, here.

This is why I've calibrated my speedometer to display furlongs per fortnight.

            And measure all volumes in hogshead.

                  And use the CowboyNeal (CbN) as a measure of intelligence. (Normal people clock in at 5x10^5 CbN)