Apple profit: $5.5 billion
Exxon profit: $US5.5bn in the second quarter.

Upvote the parent, it's about the only post in this discussion with actual information.

But haven't the huge drops in crime rates been correlated with the increases in prison populations?

If you look at the nasa mars airplane web page: http://marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/, there is no mention of 'hunting for life'. The whole search for life on mars story is just for the proles and the media.

How do you implant leaves with gold? Without removing them from the trees?

Reflective displays are obviously not the solution in bright light situations.
Transflective is what I want: http://www.liliputing.com/2010/06/cpt-transflective-display-could-give-pixel-qi-a-run-for-its-money.html

The only reason Microsoft cares about this botnet because it "was responsible for sending 651 million spam e-mails to Hotmail addresses over an 18-day period last month".

Wow. That's the first obvious troll I have seen on slashdot with a rating of "4, insightful". Awesome, if a little ensaddening.

Yes, this statement is just wrong:

"In what will be the first fusion power facility that's commercially viable".

Even changing the 'will' to 'may' would be wrong.

Does it have any server-class hardware? e.g. ECC ram? If not, it shouldn't really be called a server.