In the TOS episode "'The changeling", we follow behind Nomad as it moves down the corridor. You can clearly see that the camera is tilted a little bit, as the camera mount doesn't seem to be able to handle all the weight. At the time, you might have just dismissed it as the crazy 60's camera angle photography that you often see in the old batman shows, but Star Trek never really did that, so it's really out of character. The episode is still one of the best anyway....

Maybe they should have called the patch "ICANN FIXIT".

I heard that he met an alien who gave him some sort of ring, and that he is going to be working with the Justice League....

Even if voice recognition reaches the quality of Star Trek, we still don't have the AI quality to back it up. Sure your PC can turn your speech to text just as well as the Enterprise computer can, but as we have seen with Cleverbot and the likes, it's still just conversationally a complete idiot!

You still need to PAY her!

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.