Furthermore, why would you assume he "lost" it, whether or not he is Yakuza?

This reminds me the cloud service of Microsoft, called Danger. It died the same way - they simply lost all customer information, with no backups made (and, actually, the size of full backup could be less than 1Tb).

In my humble opinion, these people are too lame to stay in business. Having offline backups couldn't be the only problem of their service. As I can conclude from the article, they also had problems with security and lack of common sense and strategic thinking.

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I would trade my Windows Phone (HTC 8X) for an iPhone!

I have to carry a backup Android phone to use 15 features (yes, I counted) that WP could not provide. Windows Phone is not ugly, but it's useless. I want a smart phone, not a feature phone with large screen!

What you are making with your Aeropress is Americana. Espresso, for example, is made with nearly boiling water. Bialetti "percolators" make perfect Espresso, using the power of boiling water, which pushes itself through the grind coffee. I wouldn't call Americana a "progression" from Espresso. Or from "proper" spiced African creamy coffee, which is a totally different thing. And I'm not even talking about the coffee you may get in coffee shop in Amsterdam.

For space, Espresso is better, as it consumes less water.

There are filter machines (Dutch Technivorm, for example) which produce coffee of very high standard (of Americana). In my opinion, a way higher quality than Aeropress. And they waste less coffee in process. By Nordic standards, which are most coffee consuming of all (followed by Euro and American, if I remember right), you need 60 grams of ground coffee per 1 liter of water. For Aeropress, you need to go beyond that for the same result. For space travel that would mean a higher price of a shot.

Regarding the instant coffee - it depends from what is your source. Something tells me, that if you brew your perfect coffee and then freeze-dry it, you will get result of a higher quality than anything you could buy in shop. Except for mentioned coffee shop, of course.

I assume that bringing that 20kg machine to Space was PR stunt of Lavazza, otherwise I see no reason to not use the high quality instant coffee. If they need coffee in space anyway. Besides, if they have a coffee machine in Abrams tank, why not to have it in space station?

That's the original way of making coffee. There is nothing wrong with it. Some coffee drinks are made with boiling water, some - with ice cold, without brewing.

And Jeremy is right, using that plastic syringe in ISS is impossible. Or at least - using it safely.

Aeropress doesn't make Espresso. You can make a decent cup of coffee from instant powder as well.

At first I thought to out-bid you. But then the common sense prevailed, so I pass.

Dirty nuclear missile, my friend, that's what it was all about on the first place. Snowden wants to kill all Americans. Those, who trust in God. Those, who have built this country. Our kids and our future.

Sorry, I answered your question with the quote from the future.

Well, there are agricultural companies in Mexico, who sell apples. And since they produce fruits, and Apple produces cellphones, but not fruits (see the logic?) the next day someone would try to use "apple phones" in marketing material, this would be ruled out as illegal. Because consumers would be very much confused.

Watson, for example. Very promising technology. I hope it will help medics to diagnose diseases, in the future.

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I think that's what Seth Godin said in his "Stop stealing dreams".
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Try to search for "opensuse" in both Bing and Google.

Question: how many _websites_ you see in results on the first page? Count them.

I think the whole idea of assigning the single-use key is that there would be a complete list of keys and votes, so everyone would be able to look at the same document and see if his vote is registered correctly. Of course, there may be bogus keys in that list and of course that would make the whole event not secret anymore (as there would be a database of links between the key and the voter), but at least such system would be a bit more transparent.

If your token would be known to you long before the vote, and it would be up to you to use it or not, then you would see if your vote was registered by somebody else, like they do it with paper ballot. Also, there could be a limit of how many votes may be given from a single IP address. Also, there might be a procedure to simulate voting - for example, you could specify two passwords, and giving one of them would signal authorities that you were forced to give your vote, and while it would be "registered", you would have a meeting scheduled with FBI or whatever.

To make long story short - electronics give you previously unseen flexibility, and any problem can be solved with some logic, common sense and math.

That's the point.

That's Russian tradition of providing a loan to their allies and then write it off in a few years. A price of alliance, or at least a hefty bonus. USSR did the same.