computer voice recognition just isn't good enough.

So all those people who have been telling me to "eat shit" have just really been concerned about my health. Boy, have I completely misinterpreted that phrase!

There is a risk that the genetically modified mosquitoes will be eaten by deformed frogs, which will mate with other frogs and produce frogs that sing and ride bicycles.

Not always. Even cyanogenmod has abandoned many devices that could still be viable phones today. CM seems to focus mainly on the most popular phones for the latest releases, and in some cases, the devs for a particular make/model of device have just gone MIA, and development stagnates.

How many people have said "I really want an android phone, but instead of integrated google search, I want it to search BING."?

The EISA spec is a lot like the color implementation of NTSC video. It was something that was added on top of ISA so that it would work just fine with OLDER ISA-only cards. The EISA setup programs of the time were especially clunky. This was just before the widespread use of flashable BIOS ROMS on the motherboard, so there was a system partition on the hard drive that contained the program (think of a rudimentary EFI EPS partition) and the settings. One of the major features was that hardware settings for add-in cards could be configured via this setup partition rather than via jumpers or dipswitches.

When was the last time you set a jumper or dipswitch on your motherboard or add-in card?

...Until you try to do something like manage your files, or administrate your own OS. Then the pain starts. It gets even more painful if you have to do this for a living, and the UI is fighting you all the way.

Is this engineer Ben Heckendorn? This certainly sounds like something he would do.

Google's system for making exploits public is *AUTOMATED*. This is like a passenger in an elevator trying to convince the elevator to go back down while it's already in the middle of its trip to the top floor. You can throw a tantrum, but it's just not going to make any difference.

Microsoft was informed of the issue, and developed a patch, but it was due to Microsoft's own internal policies that the patch could not be included in the monthly update. There was probably some internal cut-off date or some other bureaucratic bullshit that prevented it. Google doesn't care about Microsoft's internal BS. Why should it?

Microsoft could have released the patch as an out-of-band update. Google wasn't insisting that it be released on the monthly schedule.

Well, she's been dead for at least 4 years before the Ubi project even started, so, uh, yeah.

I remember in high school history class, we were assigned a project to draw a map of the middle east (this was '84-'85 or so), and label all the major cities. I had an Apple II at home and spent days drawing the map in a rudimentary drawing program, and entering the text to label the cities. I printed it out, and the instructor would not accept it, because he thought computers were way more connected than they really were at the time, and had thought that I had simply downloaded the map from some other source. I was made to re-draw the map by hand for a grade.

It turns out the key to long life is to eat cigarettes and slather whiskey all over your skin. Take that, health nuts.

Wouldn't every company just do what they love to do best in situations like these? Just outsource it to someone else?

It's wrong to summarily and indiscriminately kill people. The death penalty that you speak of is only administered after a trial, and the suspect is found guilty.

For a Heinlein time travel story, I prefer "The Door into Summer". It's not nearly as complicated as "Zombies", but it fits together well.