Source? This is the first I've heard of this, I haven't seen any articles on the subject, so this would be very enlightening. Generally Thinkpad quality is very high, even if their screen quality went to garbage starting around Thanksgiving 2012... It would be interesting to see more details on this, as I have been tracking the downward spiral of Thinkpad quality ever since the Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing announced that they were going to square off the Thinkpad vs Ideapad brands under lenovo at the cost of giving users worse quality products under both brands....

You are $o $mart!

Kim Dotcom would just eat the other two.

I don't hear anybody complaining about the Fed bailing out GM...

Water is easy. If there's a big storm coming, just fill your bathtubs. That's enough water for most households for both flushing toilets and drinking for many days.

You can print sintered metal now. They're printing in plastic because it's cheap. Cheap sintered metal printers aren't far behind.

If you figure out who at your office does the perks purchasing, a birthday card and a phone call can go a long ways towards upgrading you from folgers to starbucks coffee grinds and generic to fanta brand orange soda, etc.

This is basically a laptop without the expensive bits - i.e. the screen and battery. I would be surprised if the bill of materials exceeds $500 this time around. Technology has come a long ways in 7 years.

Put a check in the mail.

Bitcoins are an easy, simple, and safe way for me to donate to freedom loving organizations. No bank fees, no credit card fees, no Paypal (which i refuse to use), etc. Bitcoin (which I can get by doing services for people) work extremely well.

You CAN just donate money without tacking on all of those convenience services, you know...

When you consider that USD and most other currencies are backed by nothing more than the governments that print/mint the stuff, suddenly Bitcoin doesn't seem so fake after all.

Don't be silly. Without the US government, we'd be living in a Mad Max world, and money would be a moot point. The government keeps people from raping and murdering you. The government keeps people from taking anything you own. The government maintains the utilities that allow you to live comfortably. The government also maintains a money system that is relatively stable.

That's not the point, the point is that if Google+ (or whatever they're naming their "standard") isn't open, then the cottage industry of third party IM clients (some of them are actually pretty decent) would roll over and die.

I use my phone's camera to record unmemorable but unusual things that happen throughout the day. Helps jog my memory.

Your mom called. She wants you to take out the trash.

Star Trek was a rare bastion of (semi)intellectualism on television, technobabble aside.

Wow. Really?