I was watching QVC this weekend and they were selling Flips (in a bundle with a at-home media streamer device) for a sale price of $150, down from $250 . Someone is trying to dump lots of product line.

Gold doesn't outpace inflation in the long run. In the short run, people run to gold for safety when they would rather not be in the stock market. For that reason, the "apparent" value of gold is not the same as its actual value.

Sounds sorta like the "nuclear Iran" theory. Since 2003, they have been 1 year away from Fission.

3D fab is the first step for the eventual singularity intelligence to be able to generate its own robots.

Is this an exploit that Norton Antivirus (for example) is unable to protect you from? So, for persons with antivirus software and internet security software, do they still need to be afraid of injected malware without being detected? I doubt it.

I think it would be cool to put a SmoothWall linux distro on a Wall Wart to act as an impromptu firewall. Now, if they just made a version of the Wal Wart that had 2 NIC interfaces, then we would be in business!