Exactly. Employ large scale desalinization plants near the coast of western Africa and just keep pumping that water into the Sahara. Africa would have to be recolonized to make it happen in time though.

They will deeply regret this once a weird error on a critical system pops up in a few years time, and nobody is around to give support. Or when the laptops start failing. Or when they hire an incompetent admin from one of these small local companies. Linux is fine for running servers or machines with limited functionality (appliances). But for a full fledged desktop, Linux just doesn't cut it due to many reasons. WHy do you think MacOS restricts itself to a verry narrow hardware profile? Windows is the only complete system able to run userland on so many different configurations.

By your reasoning the US would have to be way cheaper. Still, I get 300/300 mbps, cable tv and telephone for 60 euro/month. Which is about 80 USD. No fast or slow lanes.

These addresses were allocated in the age before The Great IP Shortage. There were no signs that the internet would be used privately by regular people and many sysadmins were clueless as to how IP networking worked. NAT routers were incredibly expensive and the right way to go was to just buy an IP block, distribute it globally across branches and use the router to block traffic from other IP blocks. All major companies in the eighties bought IP blocks, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... . Ofcourse many more companies have settled with 'just' a bunch of class B networks as 64k hosts is not enough if you're aiming to dominate global business. I can actually understand companies like Ford or US Postal to register an A class. Others such as Eli Lily or the UK Gov Dept of Pensions really don't need so many adresses. But now the internet has changed and there are barely enough addresses for all existing devices. So these blocks should be revoked and private networks should be private.
Perhaps a nice rule would be : if you want to have a single public IP adress you will need to be online with it for at least 1% of a month. Failure to do so will cause the address to be revoked after 3 months. And for B and A classes. If the networks do not route and cannot be accessed through their gateway, the block grant should be revoked and NAT or VPN should be used instead. This should give us a few more years until we come up with a radical replacement of the current internet. Not that IPv6 crap..

No, it's now "With an IOS device". The phone related patent was claimed a few years back by a competitor, but clearly should not apply in Apple's case..

H.265? "H.265 is said to double the data compression ratio compared to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC at the same level of video quality"

The software obviously wasn't ready when the probe launched. They needed nine more years to develop it. Had they waited, the probe wouldn't be near the comet in time. So it's a rather smart decision.

Yeah, better kill the ones that have a good life in nature as well, these animals must sure be darn tasty.

Sure, until the DNS steering comittee becomes headed by the representatives of Iran, North Korea, Pakistan and Jemen.

There is a larger market for Firefox in Windows Metro users than in Linux desktop users. Heck, the installed base of Windows 8 is larger than all Mac OS flavors combined. So why keep developing for these inferior audiences and ignore the big fish? This smells like anti-MS propaganda.

I remember implementing tel:// uri's which could be clicked by the user, which would then run a phone dialer. Somewehere around 2003, though it was not on a 'mobile device' but on windows boxen. I may still have the source code.

The only area I can image this technology to be succesful in is surveillance. I really hate all the electronic snooping, sniffing and profiling. Can we please have a revolution?

"Water table depletion" .. you have obviously spent too many hours with Simcity.

This is a nice reason to go back to the moon for a mission to collect the remains of this 15 ton meteorite.

I'm glad the this is a neutrally worded question. I've got a similar one. Given the massive breach of our childrens online privacy, do you think underages should be free to visit whatever smut they want on the internet, or is it better to have the ISP install filters for all our safety?