Could have been a couple million stone-age people, or it could have been a freaking comet.

Well, psychopathy is believed to affect about 1% of the population and be primarily a genetic abnormality, so that means about 3.1 million in the USA.

Enough to fill up Youtube.

Exactly. Elliot Rodger’s was a textbook psychopath, probably somewhere between ASPD and NPD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_B_personality_disorders).

That he had hang ups with women was a product of his brain not being capable of the normal range of human emotions, not because he was an introverted nerd.

Google seems to be focused on automating commuting, but really isn't the goal to eliminate accidents due to all forms of human error? That means driving while drunk, texting, tired, etc.

The technology is getting better rapidly, but until someone can legally flop wasted into their back seat, at 4 AM, shout "Take me home!" and drunk text their ex-girlfriend like they currently can in a taxi, it's not going to get much traction.

So I'd say we're less than 10 years out from a tech perspective, and n years out from a legal one.

Well then all we have to do is wrap the earth in a sheath of exotic matter that warps space-time to the point that a single second in the sheath on earth is 1000 years outside of it. Then just send out swarms of self replicating robots programmed to track down habitable planets and encase them in similar sheaths. After that build worm holes between the habitable worlds, easy-peasy!

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(novel) (it's a great book)

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/nobody-cares-what-you-think-about-their-phone/

Actually all the ad money comes from Google. Turn off adblock, hover over an ad, right click, hit "inspect element".

MS, Apple, etc might pay Google for advertising, but I don't think I've ever seen an Apple or MS banner ad on Google (probably because as a general rule businesses don't pay for their rival's services if the don't have to).

I've never seen the word "penurious" before:

penurious
adjective formal
1 extremely poor; poverty-stricken: a penurious old tramp.
characterized by poverty or need: penurious years.
2 parsimonious; mean: he was generous and hospitable in contrast to his stingy and penurious wife.

--New Oxford American Dictionary

The US allows a margin of inaccuracy of 10%, plus or minus. That only applies to factory cars. Once someone has made a DIY modification (for instance changing the rim size) all bets are off.

"Let your viewers make the content and make money" was Web 2.0.

Web 3.0 is "Don't make money no matter who builds the content."

No need to Godwin yourself. Checkout what the Canadians were up to (with a little funding from the CIA): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron#Project_MKULTRA

It sounds to me like he might just be getting blocked due to not having SPF records set up properly for all his domains that he's mailing on behalf of. Many mail servers block email from domains that don't bother with SPF.

Green lasers are the most expensive, not the least. Compare: http://www.wickedlasers.com/arctic $400 for 1.25 W vs http://www.wickedlasers.com/krypton $1000 for 750mW.

I don't think most Mac users are too aware of it either. I've used it twice, for the last two OSX upgrades, but that's it. I suppose it's fine for Apple software, but it wouldn't occur to me to go there instead of the internet for 3rd party software. The App store seems to me just a half-hearted attempt to try to recreate the formula that made them so much money with iTunes and iOS.

The alarmist predictions that OSX will go the way of iOS are off base. iOS is consumption oriented, whereas OSX is production oriented. The bottom line is that they simply don't have the leverage to turn OSX into a walled garden. They tried that back in the 80s and nearly went out of business. If Apple loses sight of that the Mac will die, and Apple will effectively be withdrawing from the PC market. I wouldn't put it past them to one day kill the Mac, their consumer electronics division is way more profitable than their computer division, but I don't see that day coming soon. A powerful development platform is still a key to their brand.