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I added the customary Obamacare cost overruns to round it out to $1.2B

Approaching $325 per line of code. Great work if you can get it. Wonder what it would have looked like had it been outsourced to some high-volume web service like Google or FB?

Innovative marketing move. Expect a set of Apple-branded cans with builtin iPod/WiFi and voice control. Not rocket science.

By all means, let's keep kids from exploring science in an interesting way. I made a Van DeGraff generator in HS for a science project that would draw a one foot spark and light up flourescent tubes in the ceiling in the 70's as a way of exploring static electricity. I'm sure today it wouldn't be allowed in a science fair. Safety culture has become so oppressive that many kids just avoid science and technology altogether. If you haven't shocked yourself silly messing around by High School, you're a wimp.

Henhouse locks are bad for foxes, says a leading fox union spokesman. There's a shocker..

Usually an attitude held by those who've not lived there. It's a bit different, but given their population mix, about what you'd expect.

How about minimum wage for professional athletes and actors? Sound crazy? So does trying to cap CEO pay. The market works, but many who are unwilling or unable to participate in it are unhappy with it. Human condition and all that..

SW: infinite margins on shrinking marketshare. Expensive to compete with 'free'..
PC's: smaller, faster, so cheap they're disposable.
Tablets: as above, but more so.
Servers: smaller, faster, cheaper.
Storage: ever larger, ever faster, nobody deletes anything.

I think I'll work in storage - for now.

Went for a job interview a few years back and they wanted someone with "10 years experience with Solaris 11." I pointed out to the HR screening guy that Solaris 11 wasn't released till 2010 or so, and that asking for anyone with that experience was unlikely to get any honest responses. His reply was astonishing - he said "well, I guess you don't meet the qualifications, this interview is over." Lazy HR folks are not doing their companies any favors.

Proving once again (as if proof were needed) that science and politics are the worst possible companions. Read the Feynman Report on the Challenger disaster ( http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.html [among many others]) where he lambasts NASA decision makers for using politics-inspired wishful thinking instead of science to decide to launch over strenuous objections by staff scientists and engineers. This meme is seen throughout history as the politics of wishful thinking crash onto the iceberg of reality time and again.

..and want to help" Frequently the last words a great idea ever hears.

In an related announcement, Sen Schumer's office also wants a new law recalling the 'F word' and all sticks and stones in the US. "People could get hurt" a spokesman for Schumer was quoted as saying.

Not sure that Obama really appreciated what he hat in this surveillance by 2010, but I guarantee Hillary did.

Don't be silly, you can write FORTRAN in any language..

Thank God I've never actually purchased any Adobe products. Phew, that was a close one.