Suppose automation brings manufacturing back to the U.S. What happens to all the Asian manufacturing countries who can't employ their people? I think the U.S. has a lot of figuring out to do to figure out how people can get along without jobs if automation can handle most of the labor, but I think the vacuum left in the export countries would be a more immediate problem.

Not that I'm against it. I've always thought robots doing all our work for us would be fabulous. I don't need a job to fulfill myself, but as of this moment I need one to feed, house and dress myself for about the next 10 years or so.

Goddammit! You mean they're going to start changing the interface to my meals and home, too? Shit shit shit shit shit! I'll come home one day and find the door on the roof and ice cream with sprinkles in a taco shell. Damn these companies and their free products!

I thought "wow, cool, I need to see that video," then realized it would be a video of someone watching someone else play a video game. How could I tell who's controlling the hands?

Whew, time waste avoided.

(Still, cool.)

Let me run a thought experiment. Valve files for chapter 7 or 11 bankruptcy. The trustee will do which of the following?

A. Release the patch so all customers can play their games for free.
B. See control of the DRM as an asset to be sold to pay off creditors.

My study shows that kids and parents who lie about their soda consumption also lie about their destructive and aggressive behavior.

Isn't LA-LV too hilly for a high-speed hyperloop at ground level or even ground level plus a few meters? I think it would be a vomit comet in a can.

Ew.

Here's a money-saving tip for you: Stop delivering anything less than first class postage to me. They all tick me off, and I throw them away, anyway. You'll find you won't have much to deliver to me anymore.

Ah, so you still have door-door delivery. (I live in suburban U.S.A., and my front door is about the typical 400M from my bedroom.)

Given that Server 2012 has a Metro window (which BTW is notably similar to the last few Xbox UI updates) instead of a start window I don't doubt you'll see that "synergy".

Explicitly marking sarcasm and irony as such is rather defeating the point, isn't it?

I'm sure dispatch systems are a different animal entirely, but long ago I worked at a place with a centralized walkie-talkie repeater; it had two units and rotated which was master every 12-24 hours so the backup was always tested. It was a Motorola system.

Hell, SOPA was killed by people raging on Twitter. U.S. elected officials would change their religion if people actually took to the streets in droves.

Yeah, I'm still ticked off that I can't force term searches anymore. Google does really well most of the time, but sometimes I need a particular word or the exclusion of a particular word, and Google doesn't obey anymore.

Yeah, I can't get the Netflix app for free on my Xbox 360 without paying for Live. Go figure. Good thing my TV, DVR, Wii and 4 Android devices have the Netflix app for free.

Not that I would use it for Netflix, anyway. The fan is too whiny and loud when it's on to watch movies.