It's really amazing to take a look at the first strips then walk through as the artist has improved in technique and detail. There's an easy jump to the first strip. Compare that to the latest one. The difference is profound.

In Texas we call this list the phone book. Not published much any more.

China has had 4+ times the population of the US for a very long time. The real reason they haven't been ahead of the US in production for many decades is that the productivity of the people was squandered by political forces within the country. It was corruption at the highest level, trading the productive potential for political stability.

We have corruption too. Bad politicians who do sweetheart deals with contributors, crappy patent or copyright laws, lawsuits over unreasonable things with unreasonable settlements and banking malfeasance are all examples of our elements of corruption and there are many more. I think it's relative corruption that will decide if one population is a dozen times as effective as another. That means it will decide who's economy runs things in the 21st century.

[citation required] DC has gun laws but a high homicide rate. North Dakota has few laws but a low one. I know Mexico has strict laws that simply don't work.

The reasonable question I would ask is "What is the complete impact of stricter gun laws on crime." You then need to decide what mix of gun deaths, crime, cost, laws and civil liberties you want to go with. Just saying gun death rate reduction is the only acceptable goal is not a reasonable way to consider the whole question.

The problem is that the processing filled system appeals to the masses. Niche search - in this case defined as searches by people who know how to exactly specify what they mean with great precision - will never be as common as poorly specified searches that benefit from correction and prediction, even if it's done badly. Turning off such features would be wonderful but the demand for them to do so is probably pretty limited.

So the fourth column would be a combination of the fourth estate and the fifth column or in other words a government like organization that pretends to monitor the others and be on your side while actually setting you up to be sheared like a sheep. Great.

But we aren't giving up airbags, antilock brakes and other safety and emissions control stuff to get to 54.5mpg. The Federal mileage standards were also changed a few years back meaning the 38mpg Metro (for example) would only get 33mpg under the current system.

The issue isn't for hypermilers to draft, coast and weasel their way into beating the number it's for vehicles to attain the mileage under standard conditions of the test. It means in practice many cars will have to be hybrid, electric variant or something new.

Is this not the show that has multimillion volt Tesla coils, madly whirring CNC machines and printers dispensing molten plastic? It would seem to me that either Don't Touch signs are merited in some places or the thing has fallen prey to the something like the nerfification of science kits of recent times.

100,000 BTC is a big portion of the market available. I bet if they bought it all the price would skyrocket.

What remediation will happen? None. The government has sovereign immunity except under special cases. This would not qualify as you would have to prove they not only did not have a case but could never have reasonably thought they could ever have had a case. That isn't going to happen.

Brilliant - I think this should be part of classroom instruction. It's the only way to get through to people sometimes.

Except of course that for an attack only one attempt ever need work properly to get the information desired. For a development project the whole thing better work and somebody should even be able to maintain it after whoever slapped the thing together has moved on to ruining something else.

What we need is more and richer lawyers and frightened software developers with malpractice costs bigger than doctors. Perhaps we can eventually make sure all code is only developed by giant corporations made up primarily of legal defense teams dedicated to patent exploitation and liability control with tiny development arms tagged on the end.

Perhaps this guy should take a look at how his employees view his company: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Opsware-Reviews-E11055.htm

Doesn't look like those 1:1 meetings are really paying off in "that the people who spend 12 to 16 hours/day here, which is most of their waking life, have a good life."

Don't bother. Kickstarter will pull it before you can even boast about it. Do you think they are going to let that gravy train mess with the law one bit?