why they are going bankrupt.
Who wants to pay to put up with garbage like this?

Since it looks like they already have a pacifier in the mouth they must be great for clubbing.

I won't live in a free house that's "almost as good" as on I've paid for.
When I load up an OS I want it to do what I want with little to no tweaking at all.
No source files ... I don't need a wood shop, forge and raw materials to put up shelves in my house. Someone else does that and I put up the finished good.
If I spend a day tweaking an OS I want it to be because I want to, not because I have to.

My entire car isn't "the engine", why do people insist on calling the case "the CPU"?
If you don't know what it is, call it what you know it is ... "the computer".

Are the water, electric, or sewer company responsible for someone who uses their products to do something illegal? no
Even closer ... Is the phone company responsible for someone conducting illegal business over their lines? Time and again this has been ruled a big NO.

Why then, should the provider of my data pipe be responsible for what I, or my neighbor, do with said bits?

Once this bacteria get going and turning sand to sandstone, how do you stop it? Are we then going to have to worry about all the world's sand getting turned to stone from rogue bacterial infections?

Honestly, who needs wireless on an eBook reader?
As long as it's got a memory card slot and/or a USB port that's really all it needs. A keyboard is also another thing that's pretty much useless on a book reader. With a touch screen, the thing should pretty much just have a power button and no more.

If the screen is ok, the DRM isn't there, and I can get one for way less than $299, I'm there. Once something like this can go for $100, or even $150, I'm all over it.

The last thing a business needs is some pack of rain man coders directing where projects go.
Deep coders are too hyper-focused to understand business needs and the people running the business are too focused on that to understand the code.
In the real world where jobs depend on money and deadlines there need to be abstraction layers between the people writing the code and the people running the project.

Wouldn't it make more sense to base something on a volume particle system? You could start with only a few elemental particles ... say, three (you could get smaller but we're trying to get simple) ... and make up some rules about how they combine. make them up into, oh, say, 117 or so "elements" which you can then compound according to other rules. Each step in the chain can increase complexity.

Naw, it would never work.

This guy is as nutty as a squirrel.

The Romulans power their ships with "artificial" black holes. Could we magnetically contain one of these little guys and see what can be done with it if they last that long?