Our population needs a culling. It seems way more socially acceptable to cull the people who can't/won't buy 3D garbage then to cull the stupid people who think the shit hollywood turns out is worth seeing. -W

It's about 1000 core routers. Granted, that's a lot, certainly more then Google adds in a year or two (they use Juniper anyway), but it's not a LOT or even a hard number to imagine. I'm not sure what Cisco's margins are though, so while it's list price for a thousand core routers, I'm sure they'll have to sell several tens of thousands to make up the half billion they blew. -W

For every 1 engineer who figures out how to do something, there are 999 that like to yank their own chains by listing elaborate reasons as to why "it can't be done". It's these 999 that give the rest a bad name, and it's these 999 that are the first to get laid off and the last to get hired. It's easy to say it can't be done. Easy is boring. -W

Gotta love the anarchist spirit in this one, my heart goes out to anyone who gets ethical kudos for having a business based on not paying taxes. Woot!

There are billions of people on this little blue marble. If we keep pandering to the ones who don't take the effort to understand the world around them, we're no better then the homo sheepiens. -W

So the only "fighting robot" actually mentioned is still an X or experimental prototype. Yeah this is great informative reporting right here. Do people really watch this crap? Are these same people actually allowed to vote? Democracy is doomed, rule by the stupid masses, what a fantastic idea. -W

I used to think a Kindle was an overpriced single-trick pony. Then Amazon sold it for $100 and change, now I take it everywhere, home, gym, plane. People will buy IPads because they are cool, sexy, easy to use, and useful. People don't care how much they cost. For non Apple tablets, they just have to be cheap enough for people to say, "why not", and then they will buy them. I don't understand why the other manufacturers don't "get it" yet. They can't compete at anything close to Apple's price. -W

I've a feeling it has a lot to do with weight. Invent a light enough feather analog and a way of anchoring it with control for each feather, and you might be onto something. From the documentation on the website, "SmartBird has a total weight of around 400 grams and a wingspan of 2 metres". If you can duplicate that once you invent your lightweight feather system, you're onto something. -W

We don't have a power crisis, we don't have peak food, peak oil, or peak facebook views. We have peak people. Radioactive water is a solution, not a problem. -W

Now geeks can get socially acceptable plastic surgery.

This is true, however most off-the-shelf computer motherboards run at various DC voltages, and this still requires conversion (which means more power lost through heat). This is why companies like Google that run server farms that equate to nothing more then thousands of motherboards zip tied to wire racks had component manufacturers make boards that only run on 1 voltage (24VDC I believe). I think that the concept is sound, but it does require a degree of standardization that only exists in custom orders currently. -W

I'm pretty sure Cassini launched despite the insane Luddites. People bitch about everything, when you start listening, you're just a bitchmagnet. -W

Maybe all the enemies will just start using subsonic rounds, like a .45 I wonder how often this is going to get squads to simply start tracking eachother, doesn't seem to be any provisions for friendly fire. -W

As someone who's played guitar most of my life, and had some success at it, I can say it's also very frustrating trying to play the "balding middle-aged male version of dance dance revolution" that is guitar hero or rock band. Frankly I suck at the game, and I'm looking forward to a game that I may actually be better at and involves a bit more then twiddling my digits in reaction to various lights much akin to a lab rat in an experiment. -W

Stand back and imagine a moment. . . a nuclear power plant designed to withstand a mighty 8.2 earthquake built right next to the ocean. . . um, oh no tsunami? How is the tsunami supposed to be something the plant was not designed for? Sure, there is some good engineering here, but piss poor planing and 0 forsight. -W