Or do they mean 1 in 3 remaining jobs?

As it is, automation has already taken the vast majority of jobs. You can run a small store with just a few employees, something that needed a couple dozen just a century ago.

I'm okay w/ systemd. I don't consider myself an enabler. I use Linux for my day to day work. Whatever the kernel guys put in is fine by me. If it breaks my workflow, I look for something else. That's how I switched from Ubuntu to Mint.

There are plenty of FOSS OSs out there. I don't care about the internals of them. I care about the apps they run so I can get my work done.

Think you hit it on the head with Cartoon Network and other cable offerings.

Why would kids limit themselves to that three hour block on Saturday mornings when they can watch whenever they want on CN?

Cable TV killed the Saturday morning cartoons.

I have an aluminum macbook. They only made them in late 2008.

It's running the latest version of OS X. But it's almost certainly going to be dropped by the next version.

Not bad. Frankly, I'm annoyed that the system hasn't broken yet. I want to buy a newer machine and need an excuse.

I wonder how many people there are advocating smaller federal government and less basic science education/research now?

The truth is, like everywhere else in the world, there are people with extreme views there and more moderates. If anything, Texas is going to be more moderate in the next couple decades due to demographic shifts.

whats wrong with the power companies charging two costs: One for the amount of next electricity drawn per month and a second as a line cost that everyone must pay in order to keep service? The line cost should cover updates to service to the house and stuff like that.

I'm a little unclear how I, as a user, can get exploited by this. (I know that it's bash (which pretty much makes MSWindows users immune), but what about the rest of us?)

Do I need to just browse a website on my computer?
Do I need to install Apache/PHP or some other server and open an appropriate port on my system?
Do I need to have port 22 open?
Do I need to have a root user?

Interesting thought: Cloud providers should offer a low-cost option for getting your petabyte of data out of their system.

Perhaps mailing you a drive (or series of drives) with the data on it? If they allow you to run zfs or other filesystem with snapshot capability, create a snapshot and request that it be mailed to you. Maybe they'll even link in the available drives that can handle the data and you pick which one(s) you want.

Once.

Just once more, to again inspire the children of the world for a generation.

Anyone who could afford a Karma and wanted electric would have already bought a Tesla S or Roadster.

The only way they'll sell some is to greatly upgrade the interior to Tesla Model S-type screen and software.

If it's over 100 you really should see a doctor, period. There's almost certainly something wrong other than just deconditioning.

Pretty sure they hit the '25,000 electric cars to the people' mark. ;-)

As for buying cars from dealers, I've been in quite a few purchases myself. The only dealer I had a reasonably good experience with was Saturn.

With Lexus, Jaguar, and BMW, there was a lot of negotiation. I had to go to several dealers to get competing prices (which were *always* with a spread of $2-3K). In addition, the push was always to buy something either off-the-lot or something that they could have brought over from another dealer's inventory within 2-3 days.

I was with my dad when he went to get his BMW 5 series. They pushed him into a few options he wasn't particularly interested in because they could get the car to the lot in 2 days. And once he signed the contract, it was a done deal. He called the dealership a couple hours later and wanted a different color, and the answer was that the car was already on it's way from across the state. It arrived more than a week later with barely a 'sorry for the delay' from the dealer.

The answer to this will be 'No'. The obvious way Apple is going is to change the audio output jack to the headphone to something proprietary like Lightning.

(It won't work, but it will fail like FireWire did. A few people will buy it, but at best it will be an accessory port in addition to the standard audio jack.)

Not necessarily. Whenever I make a call, I am interacting with the audio stream from the other end of the line.

Perhaps he's suggesting musicians just get (900) numbers and publish them.

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't pay to have U2 sing to me live via my phone, but some others may.

Hopefully this will allow a good XBMC client. Would love to be able to watch netflix seemlessly within XBMC.