Basically China is demanding that it too should get the same state-of-the-art technology that NSA already got stealthily.

They want nothing but the state-of-the-art in backdoor technology, that was developed by NSA. They don't want to reinvent the wheel i guess.

Fast forward a few years, now China plans to unveil its own operating system: http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
I think the same fate will befall the Banking Software and everything else too. Thank you NSA!

that would flood the signal.

I usually play Temple Run, Ninjump, Candy Crush. With Chromecast the entire family can join the fun.

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For $39 I would rather buy a Chromecast dongle. It's so much more fun to watch youtube and stuff on the bog screen.

Google and Android are now getting old. And so are Apple and its iPhone's and Mac's. It's about time we see newer companies like Microsoft, Xiaomi etc. come up with amazing new products. Although I do agree that it will be hard for a new and small company like Microsoft to break-in into big markets, but so were Google and Apple many years ago. I wish companies like Microsoft, Xiaomi all the best.

Fine, it's harvesting keystrokes. But how does it connect to the Internet to "send them back to the operator over the Web"?

I think the article is referring to time-translational symmetry. Which is what results in conservation of energy. If you claim that time translational symmetry is violated, then you are also claiming the violation of the conservation of energy. Although nothing forbids either, but it would have been big news. And I haven't heard it!

Steve Ballmer is a Joke. He will be a better fit in a circus ring or a business school.

"Today, they [IBM] specialize in financial engineering,"

Financial Engineering? Today? They would have done good for themselves if they did that before the financial crisis. Today the only financial engineering that IBM can think about is engineering their accounts ;)