Just as the NSA complains about Apple and Google using effective encryption and how it stops them from fighting "terrorism", in the near future they will whine that can't fight terrorism if the TV manufacturers don't put this monitoring technology in their TV's.

Consider a propane-powered generator (or maybe you can convert yours). Doesn't go stale.

"Don't you dare serve the people, you shall only serve the corporations!"

They say that the person chooses the next in sequence by the name of the game, but that may not be why. Perhaps when they lose they choose the pattern that beats the pattern they just used. It still results in the same sequence, R>P>S, but for a different reason.

What if computers were shipped with the Secure Boot disabled, and then a BIOS setting would allow it to be enabled? Then Linux users could use it normally, and Windows users could switch it on. You would have no option to disable it once it was enabled so it would remain "secure" for the Windows folks.

Well I (and I think most people) don't want to get rid of corporations, I just want to get rid of my government being run by corporations. Would it destroy our economy to have our representatives beholden solely to the citizens that elected them?

...who have forgotten how to make phone calls because they only use their cell phones for txting.

Those kids might grow up to be book buyers!

...just add virus to make him mobile.

Once the LHC makes a black hole that swallows the earth, I'm sure there'll be plenty of lawsuits!

Me: "Hi, I'd like to complete your cancellation of our contract."

AT&T: "OUR cancellation? How do you figure that?"

Me: "Well our contract was for unlimited data access, and you have announced that you no longer offer unlimited data access, so that means you've canceled our contract."

I just find it interesting that whether or not a cell phone is a container that holds objects -- something one might discuss with their two-year old -- is being debated in a state supreme court.

...and carbon neutral!

It would be separate instructions on a RISC machine, but not a traditional CISC machine.
This is a One Instruction CISC (although that seems like an oxymoron)

If Twitter is the main consumer of these, and they depend on them, why doesn't Twitter go into the shortening business? Buy one of those short domain names and run it themselves. They clearly have the resources, and the motivation. Seems obvious to me.