Money of some kind will always be there as long as people enjoy exchange things, and assign values to the things they exchange.

Before the conception of money, people simply exchanged one thing for another. You can argue that the things they exchanged were money. If you use electronic payment to obtain physical goods, you are effectively exchanging information for something physical. However I think you would definitely agree that you definitely exchanged money. The point is that the money as a concept evolves over time.

I think there is a question that those people who propose moneyless society need to ask themselves. The question is whether they are willing to give away their favourite childhood toy away for free, or they want something back in exchange. The toy itself may not have any value in other people's opinion. However for the toy's owner, it may have some values because of the associated memories. I suppose this is why sometimes celebrities' possession can attract large amounts of money at auctions.

The money is only there to help the process of exchanging things. It can have many different forms. Ultimately I think as long as people need something to help them to exchange things, that thing will be called "money".

The worst thing in KDE 5 is that they are dropping the support for traditional tray icons.

http://blog.martin-graesslin.c...

If you are that paranoid, you might want to implement some kind of RADIUS server. I have never looked into it myself though.

Rumour says the PCI whitelist is no longer the case in the latest generation Thinkpad. I haven't tried it out myself personally though.
http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog...

If convergence means that I have to put up UI like Gnome 3, then please don't coverge.

These business are local businesses which originally did not depend on Amazon. So what stops people from bypassing Amazon after locating the business?

These information are mostly available in the public domain already. So what's the big deal about the leak?

Well, they are resolving the responsibility issue by stop you from overclocking...

Not to mention that they probably needed something to balance the probe anyway -- might as well use someone's ashes for symbolic purposes.

Probably not. GLONASS is a recent addition to the smartphones. It is space technology. They also want to use satellite to track the planes, rather than having to pick up the black boxes when bad things happen. I think people will interact with space technology more often. I think at least the interest in Earth-bound space technology will increase.

It really depends on which branch of STEM. Biology and chemistry are more balanced, but if you study Computer Science, good luck finding girls in your own department. I think works need to be done to make certain branches of STEM subjects to look cool.

I think most people on this website knows what BGP is, hence the acronym.

I think that particular (group) of employee is probably Korean. Based on the current flippant attitude of North Korea, it is the easiest to blame everything on North Korea, which is perceived as evil.

Using North Korea as a scapegoat was a perfect strategy for Sony. Blaming the attack on a nation state is way better than admitting its poor security practices. But North Korea has now denied the involvement, I wonder what they are going to do...

I moved to United Kingdom when I was 13. I was never taught cursive in school. I am doing fine. However I don't think it is a good idea to teach texting, because different kind of input method may come along and make texting obsolete, e.g. Swype.