A great idea bot if we care about childen suffering ve also need to make contraception easily available. If a man fathers 13 kids of which he cannot properly take care of,feed, a vaccine Malaria is of much help.

Occam answer? Putting TWO men on the moon is easier than insuring 30 MILLION people. Also maybe it would have been better if government actually had done the work. Instead in our mania to privatize EVERYTHING we privatized it out to a Canadian firm. Maybe if we had used our best computer and health people (as we used our best scientists and engineers for Apollo) it would have been better. Besides we need to look at the long view, not the 30 seconds of fame. A lot of people have died in the space program.

I have a BS comp sci degree. I had to take 2 semesters of calc (differentiation and integration) as well as combinatorics, finite math, operating systems and yes ENGLISH, LOGIC, Art History. A 4 year degree isn't just a trade school degree. A lot of theoretical stuff that was very helpful in figuring stuff, making it easier to learn new ideas at jobs as well as making me a less boring person to work with. That piece of paper shows an employer that you are able to dedicate yourself to a long term task.

Everytime we think we're getting a great deal at Walmart buying cheap chinese crap we only make them richer and more powerful. Buy American (admittedly when possible) s about security, not just consumer greed.

He was the master of leveraging monopolies and pushing crappy products on dimwitted comptuer users but he's never had a clue as to what people wanted and creative enough to put out great products. Check your history. Gates thought the internet was a passing fad. It was only thru his crappy windows that he embedded into Win* it forced people to use it. Anyone in their right mind now switches to Chrome or other better alternatives.

Its not all about "features", bells and whistles which windows has always had tons of that crap. Its about ease of use, the gadget working with you, not against you. Facetime is a case in point. It is so simple (no setup required) to Star Trek call ones friends. When an Android users asks me to show them how to do the same I have to search for apps, learn their features...and then something like Skype is mentioned that requires setup and login, blah blah blah. It was the same on the Mac. I could just video chat with my 80 year old mom. I didn't have to ask her to download an app and set it up (like would ever happen). Unfortuantely most non apple users have no idea.

People can grow and eat all the GMO food they want. It just should be posted on products so I/anyone can decide. Also Monsanto needs to protect organic and non GMO farmers from contamination. Very simple. Let me live my life.

One should pay for the miles they wear down the road. Simple: each year when ones car is inspected the mileage is checked and sent to DMV which will in turn tax accordingly. You don't pay then that car should have it legal registration revoked.

Perhaps if most of the yahoo climate change deniers out there had passed chemistry they would actually believe in what scientists say and not that scientist-brain surgeon (see Terri Schiavo) expert Sean Hannity. High Schools in general (yes there is BOCES) are not trade schools. We have enough boring, one dimensional people.

This is an idiotic waste. Am I to believe an alien race that can span the light years to get here will scoop an artifact from orbit and then go home and not explore the planet? Even assuming in 3 billion years all traces of civilization on the planet have vanished, some orbiting disk of photos will tell all?

Isn't Apple's server farm in NC going to be mostly solar and all green? Certainly a good precident.

Reality check. Gates was brilliant (was, even before retiring what great ideas did he have?), able to reverse engineer and OS then hire enough lawyers so he could get rich off of Xerox and Apple's ideas. However he as been so so wrong about so many thing. Do some fact checking. Zune would seem obvious but he was way down on the internet, how much "wronger" can one be. If not for his anittrust actions forcing people to use IE MS would never have caught up. Fortunately for him he has so so much money he could overcome incredibly bad business choices. He's been pretty much idealess in his career, ripping off ideas of others then quashing them thru lawyers. What I always disliked the most about MS products is the arm twisting they do to force you to use them rather than entice people to use your product on account of its worth. Personally I'd choose an ipad with a dock so if I needed input I could. I don't see a room full of students clacking away on min laptops. In the future everything will powerpointed, already annotated so students won't have to be typing away. Shortsighted article.

Once again as with so many other funded studies, they could have just asked me. Like duh.

we should care? why?

So glad I'm not qualified to work there. Its why, with their gazillion dollars they consistently produce POS product.