Deaths aren't the only thing that is important, having your thyroid removed is a serious negative consequence of the radiation exposure. Now onto your claim: "None of that will happen in Japan." - You mean there will be no radiation exposure that will cause serious illness or death? And you know this how?

" the Chernobyl death toll remains stubbornly at 51." Ya, let's ignore the 5,000 cases of thyroid cancer. Those crazy scientists, always making stuff up.

I know, I'm really impressed. It's not often that large corporations are able to set a direction and execute this well. It makes we wonder about how Apple is managed that keeps them on track (money alone does not create these kinds of results).

How much of a summary do you need to read to know you should skip that one?

It seems like his point on copyright is accurate in that it's kind of swimming upstream these days, it's almost impossible to control the easy flow of content.

The article doesn't say, but I would be curious if he had ideas on what kind of arrangement would allow artists to get paid and that accepts that content can't be controlled.

If they were required to have an auto-deploy parachute that might reduce some categories of problems

2M sounds high? You sound really knowledgeable about flight control systems, let's check component by component:
How many lines of code to track airplanes using the FAA's satellite network?
How many lines of code to generate flight courses?
How many lines of code to generate flight progress strips as airplanes approach a control area?
etc.

Whoosh!

Look, I know a guy who's brother has a pretty close friend that really knows the ins and outs of this stuff, I swear he could get you setup in just a matter of hours...all you need to do is probably mail your device to him (I would include insurance just in case), mention my name (well probably my brother's name, he doesn't really know who I am), then boom! he'll get your device setup.

I would probably allow for a couple weeks because this guy is so good he's getting lots of requests like this (I may have mentioned something on facebook), but once you drop my brother's name, your device should pop to the top of his list. Also, you'll want to include a prepaid return label, you know, so he doesn't have to foot the bill the get you setup.

"If something shows up on your bill in AWS, it is running somewhere and you most certainly set it up." - You seem to be stating that there is zero possibility that AWS could have a billing problem, ever. Just because you haven't encountered one doesn't mean it's not possible. It's possible the other poster made an error, but it's also possible there was an error on Amazon's part - I don't think there is enough information to determine one way or another.

It's the job of the market. If there is demand he will succeed, if there is no demand he won't. Your opinion that it's a "lame argument" is simply not relevant.

"We ship [boxes] to an address that's has nothing to do with the customer,"

I know some other companies that seem to do this for about half my orders.

Or maybe a special password that enters the system into a state that only reveals items that are allowed to be viewed. Anything protected by the more secure password would simply not appear (e.g. files).

I commonly read slashdot (SD) using my computer (MC) at my desk (MD) at work (WK). I wonder (IW) if a smart watch (SW) would improve (WI) my communications (MC).

If the network was trained to always return a "best match" then it's working correctly. To return "no image", it would need to be trained to be able to return that, just like humans are given feedback when there is no image.