I think they'd be a very different organization if they edited their leaks beyond basic redactions.

Wikileaks publishes and journalists decide what is relevant.

Last I heard, interpretation the Mars rock was "inconclusive."

Maybe they've figured something out.

There's the XBOX, they make money of their servers and related products, and they do a lot of business with various products and services related to Exchange.

And they make a damn fine mouse.

But in the consumer world, there's Windows, Office, and XBox. Everything else they've tried to do has failed.

Hah! They may be on top now, but thanks to CCD we won't have to be #2 for long. Goooooooooo humans!

Myspace had a bunch of teenagers. Facebook has managed to actually attract working semi-tech-literate adults to use their gee-whiz web 2.0 service. They're basically the only company that has done that. It will be very hard to move their entire network effect onto a competing service.

I really feel for these poor misunderstood billionaires.

I buy 100 machines from Dell, I get fired, I can be replaced by anyone who has worked with Dell before.

I build 100 machines, I get fired, the company is screwed. Ergo, I don't get fired.

I think it's pretty clear which way is smarter.

God they really are bad at this aren't they?

I don't pay so much attention to the polls. I hadn't really noticed.

In defense: Holga cameras take really interesting looking pictures, and fixie bikes are good for...

um...

bike polo i guess.

Writing forward with no editing or deletion, while still getting to read what you wrote yesterday. They still make new typewriters and a no-frills manual model goes for like $90.

But unlikes some sourpusses around here, I appreciate the appeal of using weird tools to do common tasks. So if ed is really your thing, ignore the haters.

This is a somewhat important story. It isn't idle.

The interesting thing here is that her suit worked. I just searched google and yahoo for Beverly Stayart, and none of the kind of websites she was talking about came up.

We'll be able to live on Venus and Mars before we can live on this planet, even if it is a paradise.

The fastest man-made object ever was the Helios 2 probe in the 70s. With a gravitational assist from the Sun, it was able to reach 150,000 miles per hour. Even if we could escape the solar system at 10x that speed (which is FAR beyond our current capabilities) it would take almost 10,000 years to reach a solar system 20 light years away.

Realistic interstellar travel requires relativistic speeds, and right now we aren't able to accelerate anything much bigger than a hydrogen atom to those kinds of velocities. Not only that, but when you start to approach your destination, you need to be carrying just as much energy to slow back down.

A lot of people seem to think we'll be launching robot probes on 200 year missions within our lifetimes to go explore these newly discovered planets. It's easy to have one's imagination off by orders of magnitudes when thinking about interstellar distances.

Because Government is the monopoly on the legitimate use of force. They are different from you by definition. It's like this in every single nation-state that has ever existed.

Nah. It blows.

Star wars might have only passable acting, but it has great characters that you actually care about. The only remotely charismatic character in Avatar is the evil army guy.

And the special effects might have been impressive in a technical sense, they look like the box art on graphics cards.

Oh, I get it, it was supposed to suck.