I want a curved monitor.

A new 4k 50" set on my desk would have edges enough further from my eyes that when I focus on the center the edges will be out of focus. A curved monitor could make the image the same distance from my eyes all the way across, which would be awesome!

And that gave the Aussies a hobson's choice. Be 0wned by the Chinese or Americans.

It is possible that the Aussie spy agencies were working with the US to more thoroughly compromise Aussie network infrastructure.

For the NSA, anyone who isn't powerful isn't in the 'club', and that's foreign enough. Other spy agencies are valuable as propaganda cover though. If the NSA facilitates domestic spying by them then 'swaps' intel, both agencies claim they aren't spying on citizens! And if they pay or coerce local businesses to spy and turn over the data, why the intel is laundered so it's clean. And clean means it's ok!

And now China has political cover if we notice them inserting their own changes into, say, the ethernet PHY compromising every router regardless of firmware revision. Or adds their own Stuxnet onto the support CDs included with the router.

Real security from Adobe? Bwahahah! Name an Adobe security success in the past decade!

And we'll get user privacy from the zombie tracking cookie company? Adobe actively opposes privacy as a business! Either your not too bright, or your a shill taking us for morons.

Swerve in front of the Apple patent lawyer, clip and deflect his car into the Justin Bieber fans knocking them into the telephone pole. Apple's car will doctor dash cam video to clearly show the accident was caused by stolen 'rounded corner' tech Samsung thieves included in 'telephone pole' - which also clearly incorporates Apple mobile telephone IP including the use of 'wire' and 'copper' to complete a phone call.

Not enough of you are signing up for MS Live and MS Store. That's like stealing. Some corps have even blocked MS Store. That's why we've blocked offline updates to 8.1, made it mandatory and available via MS Store only. YOU WILL AGREE TO THE MS STORE Ts & Cs! In short, you will comply with whatever poison pill we care to server or we'll throw you to the malware thieves. Oh, and have a nice day!

How much are the emails of your competitor's best salesmen worth to you? What if they were scanned to forward only those between him and his customers? What if you got alerts when a new prospect emailed? There is so much profitable data in email if only you fully monetize it! (and resell it through a Business Intelligence '3rd party' so you can claim to be the victim when caught!)

Facilitating scanning for any purpose by '3rd parties' is still on the table too.

Thus they'll have the pictures from drivers license photos. They'll make it mandatory for exercising your constitutionally guaranteed rights(* exclusions apply, complaints accepted in 'free speech' zones only) - so press passes, licenses of all types (esp. for guns) will require it.

Paying for it is a problem too. That's why we had design the Occulus -- so nerds would pay us to put that headband on.

The problem is the management structure leading to internal billing sounding like a good idea! Flat rate the costs unless they're really significant and you can't gauge who the users are. Make the flat rate based on 'reserved' units. i.e. a portion of the resources have 'priority' access for a dept. based on the amount the dept. allocated to the budget. They are still shared, but the sponsoring dept. has priority access. Infrequent users use the 'free' equipment or any 'reserved' unit not currently in use. Frequent users can fund additional 'sponsored' units if they need more. While imperfect, it's better than treating each bit of equipment like a rent-way rental.

The AC's idea of an RFID timeclock in the room is great if you must internally bill. A crude measure of usage should work if your office politics aren't toxic. If you really have problems with equipment abuse, you can use a webcam and review it only if there is unreported damage. Review the footage only with a managers approval with public knowledge every time it happens (with penalties for snooping) and you'll make junior NSA drama less likely.

Still, internal billing is very expensive operationally.

The one the governmental actors target? We know they want to discredit bitcoin. Why not make the effort profitable too? Stealing bitcoin discredits bitcoin while providing 'clean' funds for covert operations. Win-Win!

The folks who created Stuxnet could do this without a doubt. Why is anyone assuming this is being done by 'criminals'?

Exactly. The French were terribly led. Command was not granted based on ability, and they are a post child for the terrible consequences of doing that.

At work a secretary played a Celine Deon CD on her PC, infecting it with one of the Sony root-kits just as I was making purchasing decision. I'm sure you're shocked to learn I placed Sony in the 'Hell No!' list.

Should the Sony Vaio division use their severance pay to hire hits on the Sony media division execs? They excluded Sony from consideration from a bit more than $100k of purchases I made...