This doesn't really follow. Animals that suddenly find themselves an abudance of food don't grow massive, rather they reproduce in greater numbers. If food were always highly available then we might select for large size and big brains over time, but any one person with too much food is not going to suddenly become superman.

I'm not an expert in this, but my guess is that our energy hungry brains are one of the factors in the relatively long development period for our offspring, but it's not the only factor.

There was a report about an operation to rescue the hostages that failed because the hostages were not where the intelligence said they would be. Several of the ISIS folks were supposedly killed in the fight however.

But no, special forces don't get called out on a daily basis, and it causes political trouble if they're discovered in foreign countries. Pakistan's government is still mad that we didn't give them a heads up before we went after Osama Bin Laden. Plus, they're extremely valuable and no matter how good they are, if you keep sending them into combat eventually someone is going to get lucky and kill them. They have to be used sparingly.

Sure you can fight city hall: you can vote them out. Try voting out the head of Comcast next time he comes up for an election.

It's also possible that the NSA is fixing bugs in TOR because their own agents use it for its original purpose.

Propaganda for ISIS? Pretty much everybody I know has thought the exact opposite. That this sort of thing is a disaster for them, and is going to hasten their demise.

"ISIS: Hey Western Governments that are largely keeping their hands off of the situation: We're going to kill your citizens now."
"Obama: Get me Seal Team 6"

Of course they want to hire the "very best", where "bestness" is measured by how little money they are willing to work for.

I don't disagree that there are some really smart people around the world who want to work for Google, but really valuable people don't need special programs to come over to work. The existing system is already set up to admit them. This is a smoke screen to hide the true purpose of the program: finding more people who don't know the value of their skills, preferably ones without many existing relationships that are easier to overwork.

I guess it's a good thing after all that Congress killed the Superconducting Supercollider after all then. I mean their main argument was that it wasn't going to have a good ROI because knowledge has no value.

It is actually required by law to be there. All phones must be capable of making an emergency call without being unlocked.

This variation is otherwise known as the "forever game" of Monopoly. Without the money sink of the fines, the game is virtually guaranteed to drag on for hours and hours, thoroughly and completely boring everybody.

Netflix is better for me on v6 than it is on v4 because my ISP (Fios) does not support v6 so I have to tunnel it out, and the tunnel avoids the congested uplink that Verizon has to Netflix.

In some ways getting a job is like dating. If you are beautiful you can skip a lot of the bullshit.

Basically, Step 0: Be an expert at an in-demand technology. Step 1: Don't not be an expert at an in-demand technology.

I have a Iconia Tab with a Tegra 2, and am pretty pissed at how fast nVidia dropped driver support for the chip. I'm stuck on an ancient version of Android because of it.

Matte screens and touchscreens are not a great combo. They're too hard to clean fingerprints off of.

You had mainframe access in school?!? I don't count embedded "OS"es like Cisco's iOS--you are just running an application for configuring the device. It's semantics and I can see the arguments for and against it. When you learn those, you're not really learning the OS so much as just learning the device, it's not especially portable knowledge.

I guess it varies. Unless someone's cell phone is out of service they always get my messages. It's more reliable than SMS for me.