Well actually there IS a cheaper plan, but only if you only have a feature phone, see page 2 of:
http://solutions.vzwshop.com/shareeverything/pdf/verizon_share_everything_plan_details.pdf

Widescreen IPS display with at least 1200 pixel vertical resolution or it didn't happen...

They were all things that my friends and I talked about and found technologically inspiring, so while yes they are different, they are similar in the way that they inspire a STEM education.

I'm 46 and I grew up with Star Trek, the World Trade Center, the Concorde, and the space shuttle. How's that working out...

Nothing sits for long after it stops being popular/profitable, they implode it and build something else.

Actually I think you'd use an MPAA case as a precedent. Wasn't there a case from the MPAA against a company that was creating a side editing track to cut out the bad(good) parts of a movie to reduce it from R to PG-13?

Arduino, lots and lots of Arduinos. They're cheap and can be used for lots of stuff.

I've found that people who are not technical don't necessarily realize that Microsoft Office is a separate product from Microsoft Windows - they've never seen one without the other.

If I were a cynical guy I'd take this as Intel giving Microsoft's cash cow the FU salute after Microsoft said Windows 8 would run on Arm based tablets. Good thing I'm not a cynical person - oh, wait...

Let me guess, the garage will have a turntable and the cars will come out of a gate of street signs. Will they call this thing the Batcave or Wayne Manor?

So, the average Slashdot reader will achieve normal IQ at around age 80?

Didn't APL prove this a long time ago?

I wasn't really worrying about three letter agencies in this as much as Amazon itself knowing even more about me than they already do and using that to market to me endlessly. It already happens a lot that I see a product mentioned so I look at it on Amazon, but then it bugs me after that with all sorts of related suggestions so I end up going in and deleting it from my viewing history. If you've got three letter agencies interested in you, then your life is far more interesting than I plan for mine to be, and probably not in a comfortable way.

Also the WAP protocol used in the early days of phone web browsers.

Can you imagine what happens when at an inconvenient time someone goes to their Amazon home page and it says "because you like www.clownsboinkingnuns.com we recommend this selection of clown masks"