23 tabs over two windows and FF3.6 is using a working set of 358MB. I swear I've never seen the rabid memory problems that every other FF user apparently gets.

Not just the CEOs, but thre venture capitalists as well. An exit strategy of "sell as soon as we are mature" was probably part of the pitch.

How would we know to look before the light photons reached us? Did we have all-sky neutrino detectors in 1987?

Would Sir wish for a man to follow him around and wave a red flag each time there's a disaster?

I'm not really sure what your point is. Are you one of these "I don't watch live TV or listen to the radio" crowd? And you turn off your mobile? How exactly do you expect to be warned, then?

I hear Iran has some big frickin' lasers, what you gonna do about it?

Don't even buy them, LEGO CS is good enough that they will send you the necessary brick for free if you give them a call. At least they used to. My future wife was the one who took the calls and grappled with ancient instructions to identify the brick in question. Great days, I've never worked for a better company...

Will be glad to get 2012 out of the way.

Making them complex and writing them down on a piece of paper is probably one of the most secure method in these days of remote attacks. I'm starting to wonder why we told users to reject this method. Keep them different across important accounts and the only worry you have is a burglar.

Proprietary obv

It's Apple who are destroying computers. Having no alternative to a restricted tablet with propitiatory locked-down OS is a very real possibility in the next decade.

The bottom line is, it's much more likely that someone on the internet will compromise any one of the points across which an email passes, than it is they will scale telephone poles or break into street cabinets or even break into internet-connected portions of the phone system. Yes it's security through obscurity but I can't believe that the phone system isn't "more secure" on that basis. Even by weight of numbers - there are many script kiddies out there who can use pre-packaged tools to break into a system. I would bet my house that there are much lower numbers of people trying to break into phone systems.

As new, perhaps, but I imagine that in my country about 95% of households will have an analogue TV which is now crying out for a use. (If they didn't send it to the tip having upgraded to HD)

Good idea. I expect the correlation between Facebook users and idiots who film the entire concert on their crappy mobile phones to be strong.

If we redefine "open" to be the ability to run whatever program I wish, then the issue touches people much beyond the "nerd" circle.

A scientist: the God particle may well be unfindable, but we're gonna keep on looking until we find something. A religious: don't bother looking for God, he's unfindable.