We all get to roast in the human-induced Global Climate Change that results form dumping all that C into the atmosphere. More realistically, we get to starve as our crops and farming methods fail to cope with the variability implied by climate change, aggravated by the terribly, dangerously narrow genetic diversity in agricultural varieties in use because we've allowed major corporations to "patent" and "exclusively license" the genestock that feeds us.

My car doesn't have a computer, you insensitive clod.

I sincerely hope that's true for your government where you are, but here, where I am, "my" government has become no more than an Extractive Industry out to enrich a bunch of bandits at the expense of the rest of us. As far as I am concerned the world is in desperate and urgent need of (a?) money system(s?) that are decentralised, anonymous and King-proof. I have some nagging reservations about Bitcoin, but so far it looks like the closest thing to that we've seen yet.

74% of respondents expected to see no humans on Earth by 2032.

The patents were *not* invalidated.

Some claims within the patents were invalidated.

Go RTFA.

140 characters. Didn't stand a chance.

OK, so Apple threatened Palm... so why is there a Google logo on the front page???

/. eds have completely jumped the shark.

4b) Insurance companies are banks, too.

You really think there's ever going to be a Win 9? I think we're witnessing the early signs of MS nerve death. And it can't come soon enough!

I am in my 50's, you insensitive clod!

And not at all offended by nipples, nudity, whatever. But then I not a Merkin...

Don't know about Alligator, but Crocodile is delicious!

I still edit in vi, you insensitive clod!

My fear is that in 10,000 years from now we'll still be maintaining a bunch of Cobol and Java programmes!

I am a grandfather, you insensitive clod! And I'd be happy to drop my POTS for something less 'controlled'.

You're missing the educated part. If the call centres were staffed by graduates of the US high-school system, you'd be stuck with all the lack of quality that implies. At least Indian high-schoolers graduate having received a decent level of actual education.