The difference is that economies of scale are extremely important in the electronic device world. It's easy to drop $100 million on R&D when you can spread it across 10 million device sales. If you're only going to sell them to ten people, then you need to sell them for $10 million each just to cover R&D costs. With Ostrich boots, the "R&D" cost is one tailor for one afternoon to make the pattern, maybe a couple hundred bucks in "R&D". That means they can produce very limited quantities and still turn a profit.

Out of around 130 million different books in the world, only about 20-25 million of them have been scanned. Also, a book and the content are different things. A rare 400-year old book has a lot of intrinsic value even if the text is available in digital format. So storing physical objects in a library will be with us for a long time.

And to what extent do you avoid cutting costs? Avoid 99% of failure scenarios? 99.9%? 99.9999%? How would you justify where you cut the line? It's not a simple answer.

And where would you consider to be a "safe" area in the US that has no storms, no earthquakes, etc? And is also somewhat accessible and relatively close to a large population center?

"Current page-by-page review processes are unsustainable in an era of gigabytes and yottabytes. New and existing technologies must be integrated into new processes that allow greater information storage, retrieval, and sharing. We must incorporate technology into an automated declassification process" So this article isn't about changing the classification levels, etc. It's about making a computer decide what should be classified or not. Does anyone think it is a good idea to have a computer decide which information is sensitive, based on some kind of context analysis or something? This is someone trying to sell to the government. It just has to be-

So instead of Google being able to track me, Duck Duck Go can track me. I guess it's a question of which company you trust more?

America, or the United States of America? "America" is two continents...

This. I was actually surprised that people think Windows 8 is expensive. It seems to be cheapest Microsoft OS for a long, long time.

Sitting down with a bag of popcorn...

Exactly. This kind of reporting is already required by the SEC if it causes or could potentially cause a reasonable material change to your books. Same as if a dinosaur ate your CEO, or your data center was wiped out by a giant mutant butterfly. We shouldn't be specifying each individual case in law, the SEC laws are so complex that there are SEC specialist lawyers all over the place already.

The article has four pictures.

It has been shown many times in studies that people are able to read a lot of emotion by looking at another person's eyes. Looking at foreheads doesn't give you a tactical advantage, but if you can look in someone's eyes you can see what they are feeling most of the time. You can also see where they are looking, and where their attention is at, which is critical. Of course, good magicians know this and look at the wrong things at the wrong times to mislead you ;)

You should probably do some research on Fukushima. The control rods did drop when the earthquake hit, as part of the emergency shutdown, the chain reaction did stop as designed, and there was enough residual heat from fission by-products that the entire fuel assembly melted anyway.

Donating to the project, though, just helps to pay for server maintenance, connectivity, etc, correct? Donating money doesn't go towards hiring professional editors or anything. It just keeps the light on. If Harvard and Yale wanted to help on the quality, they shouldn't donate money, they should get a bunch of their faculty to start editing, right?

Maybe they haven't received as much attention because it's difficult to permanently blind yourself with a 3D printer?