My cats and dog know exactly when to eat and line up to get snacks. Those are all entropic measurements and knowing your circadian/metabolic rhythms. If you know your body well enough, you'll feel its different states and you can call it a time, but it's still boils down to entropy.

That's entropy, not time.

It's very possible that the development of language in humans sort of locked us into the concept of time. For further reading, some of which sounds insane, look into pigeons and their homing instincts to see how other animals aren't necessarily perceiving time in the way that we do.

I've always heard about Israeli-style airport security being top notch. That's to say that they apply a level of intelligence, instead of blindly molesting passengers. Can anyone comment on how this methodology compares to the way they do it in Israel? Thanks!

If I had a nickel for every time I've seen this statement on Slashdot over the last 15 years, I could buy myself a nice lunch.

They are offering internet access in the purest sense of the term. There are no technical barriers in place that prevent all the normal types of traffic you can have over an IP connection. Rather, it's a contractual agreement that Google is already admitting is behind the times.

Yes, except my next phone and tablet will be Android-based precisely because Apple fucked me over and ruined my iPhone 4s with iOS 7. On Mac computers, every new OS X upgrade makes older computers run better. It's exactly the opposite with iOS and iPhones.

Privatized health care is costing my company hundreds of thousands of dollars in opportunity costs since our senior staff members are haggling over rising insurance costs instead of working billable hours. That's in addition to the rising cost of healthcare. Socialized medicine would save small businesses tons of money and headaches.

One of my everyday rituals is walking out of my office building and across the parking lot. During my walk across the parking lot, I ask Siri to call my wife. At some varying point, the building's Wifi cuts out and 3G kicks in. As soon as I read this headline, I knew exactly how it would apply to my life.

This would also be good for Pandora. My home's Wifi reaches almost to my street corner, so I can be several hundred feet away from my house using Pandora and still on Wifi. When I turn the corner, 3G goes on and Pandora cuts out because it lost Wifi. Again, another very practical use of this technology.

I don't begrudge anyone for charging money, but since I was a paying customer, I insist on being able to watch everything in their library on a streaming device.

I was paying $8/month for Hulu. I don't like getting the "free" version of things and insist upon being a paying customer whenever possible. In fact, to use Hulu on a streaming device, you *must* be a paying customer. And even if you are a paying customer using a streaming device such as XBox or Roku, they will not let you watch certain programs on your devices.

3. You pay them money, still watch ads, and can't watch certain shows on devices like XBox or Roku, which was sort of the point in the first place.

It's worse than you think. Even if you're in the US, you can't watch certain shows on certain devices, such as XBox 360 or Roku. Their management lives in this 20 year old fantasy land where I'm going to go sit at my desk and watch something in my web browser. It's an incredibly backwards-thinking company.

Or time has no meaning for such a being, which is vastly different than saying it approaches or touches zero. Think Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen.

It's not about the shitty design process. It's about sending a message: democratized defense against all threats, external and internal.

If you look at all their possible sources of revenue (and avenues for growth) and back out a conservative amount of expense, you're looking at a company with about $35 million in earnings. That's nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's a shitty company.

I'm going to hold to my theory that this is simply a cash-out for the original investors, and that there is no long-term value to secondary market investors.