The DRM issue is easily worked around: all you need is one un-DRMed version out in the wild. In fact, Sandy Bridge is facilitating non-DRMed video anywhere. Their Quick Sync technology allows you to take your base video and transcode for all your devices very quickly with high quality. I plan to grab blu-rays and transcode to the kids iPad much more often now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odyl6952aRg

I gather you're not in Silicon Valley? My small startup is having a really hard time the last 6 months competing against Facebook, Google, Zynga, Apple in hiring quality developers, even just out of college. Thanks to goldman sachs, we've also got 2000 people about to move into the real estate market with $10 million in fungible stock options as well.

Owns his own cola, music, airline, and private island, bonks supermodels, and about to commercialize LEO travel. Does his own extreme sport stunts as well.

I'd go with a formal interview to complement the daily life recording, to preserve for the kids a sense of how she felt on major issues, philosophy, personal achievements, things that might not come up when recording a daily routine.

Our immune system has an advantage over virii and bacteria due to our greater cell specialization and intelligent response. The problem with modern botnet malware is that the infecting agent can actually be more intelligent and reactive than the host it's infecting.

Targeted zero day attacks to steal source code are worth 1000x more than an account to send spam on. Root at google? This is actually a big deal, above the realm of small bot shops, this is superpowers in a cyber arms race. Very strong implications on the security of cloud computing as the provisioning company can be the vector of attacks to any company it hosts.

I'm biased because it's a hobby of mine, but yes, I could see doing that if the break allows for thinking about drought resistant perennials, planning so that the garden has some interesting blooms each month, and thinking about how to get rid of some bugs that other gardeners are succumbing to. Then again, gardening is a pretty good activity to think while working. As an aside, and it may be observation bias, but I do know quite a few long time programmers who do get into gardening for the mental challenges (we had some folks at the Tech Shop/Maker Fair working on wireless soil sensor equipment).

Sure, I can hold out for a few days but there' no way I'd last over a month in space without a little private time.

I do work on optimization of large datasets, such as mapping all streets ala street view. KML files are a wonderful standardization, but they can be huge. In fact, a lot of geographic data is voluminous. There still is a niche for actual client apps that are not running JSON for speed reasons when crunching large datasets.

Diminishing returns are a good metric for return on investment, but there's something unique about the best you've ever achieved. I guess a good analogy is (the obvious one, of course) women. Some people would never make the calculus that it's worth it to spend 5x as much effort chasing a 10 as an 8 (relative to one's rating system).