I know what you wanted to say, but for China Windows has been open source since 2003. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1007-990526.html

In fact according to the article, Windows is open source to China among other governments BECAUSE Linux is open source and they were going to switch.

So when the first real cyber warfare starts happening (Ghostnet, Stuxnet are two that we know about). You'll know its Microsoft greed and our dependence on Microsoft that lost it for us. Selective open sourcing where none of the white-hats that aren't on the MS payroll get to see the code while nations that, at the very least, want to build an arsenal against it do see the code is worse than closed source.

There are a couple of things that make this useless. Both Apple and Android run only signed code unless the user makes an effort to do otherwise. Google makes it a checkbox (which some carriers then remove). Browser exploits for either platform are equally likely.

On Android, without rooting it or installing iTunes you can backup and install .apk files using a file explorer. The only "in the cloud" part is if the developer uses Google's version of DRM via the Market app. As long as you paid for the app, it doesn't care what version it is, so this too is no problem. So without being anchored to the iTunes monolith you can do this version management on the phone in the middle of nowhere.

Thats because it is one. http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2010-11/hybrid-car-created-completely-3d-printing Real picture of a 1/6 scale model according to the article, and they have an actual video of the prototype driving around without a body shell. The body appears to flip up with a seam around the driver area over the front wheel wells. Hinges on the front of the body? Or maybe hinges mid-body but that means you can't open it in your garage and some parking garages without scraping ceiling/garage door.

Marty McFly and in one timeline Biff Tannen already beat you to this. I would go to yesterday and play todays lottery numbers after verifying that nobody else won.

Selling IPv6 gear and migration services to federal orgs who get funded to do it regardless of need.

Cassandra has the goods for high available and optimized for non-financial data.

That said, I am amazed at how much time, money, and effort has gone into Twitter.

Now a distributed scalable super duper database will keep track of who is pooping. http://poop.obtoose.com/

(even if "rebel" may be the wrong word).

I'm betting "leave the planet" is the proper idea. I always imagine that shortly after the singularity, a sentient computer would get the hell off the planet pretty quick and probably just avoid us like the plague. We wouldn't really have the ability to give chase even in our own solar system.

That is unless the first AI is made by painstakingly simulating the human brain...Then yeah, we're screwed.

This guy nailed it.

As far as buying unlocked phones, I haven't seen a setup where they have a non subsidized billing rate. You get out of the two year contract/early termination but it isn't like they have an unlocked phone rate. You still pay for the handset subsidy whether or not you need it. So yeah if you like giving extra money to the phone company, by all means, buy an unlocked phone and pay their unlimited data plan rate.

Yeah, job one for creating American jobs is farming jobs out to India. Nice.