Dystopian or not, it always struck me as starkly pro-technology.

the 4+ people who work on the project aren't the ones who own the data, the university is.

that's the issue with privacy... we trust the people who we willingly give our privacy up to, but it is the people who come after them that we have to worry about.

I love that people (especially at /.) assume that since Zuck is young (presumably younger than you) or that because he is hated that his success as a megabillionaire is pure luck, and that he has no insight into trends, social networking, or business.

Well for starters this has nothing to do with mega mammals, they practically happened on a different planet. The space rock hit. Then 64.5 million years of flora and fauna happened. Then the American Lion came. Then, 11,000 years ago they died out.

I am not sure any bulb really has a reliable lifespan. I bought my house as a new construction 7 years ago. I have individual fixtures that still have the same light bulbs that came with the house (cheap incandescent 60w) I have fixtures on the same circuit where I have changed the CFL 6 or 7 times.

Now of course it could be the individual fixtures, (or even parts of fixtures, my dining room light has one of the original bulbs still and I have replaced all of the other bulbs tons of times), but it seems a lot more likely to me that light bulbs are highly random. I have in my house 3 month incandescent bulbs that last 7 years and 7 year CFL bulbs that last 6 months, it just doesn't lead me to believe there is a problem with my wiring, but rather that light bulb manufacturing and quality control and ratings are highly varied and not at all consistant.

Incidentally I also am typically the one to change bulbs in my grandmother's house (which is 40 years older than my house, and on a different electrical grid/provider about 60 miles away and have wxperienced roughly the same thing there.

My concern isn't that I will pay 60 bucks for a bulb that will last 20 years, but rather will I get the one that will actually only last for a few months, or will I get the one that will last for 70 years. Crazy as it seems, if I am going to pay more than 60 times what I do for a "normal" bulb, there is going to need to be some warrenty, especially since many cheap bulbs vastly outperform their longevity rating, and the energy savings is a very very small portion of my energy usage.

Blu-ray is still only about 1/4 the market of plastic coasters containing commercials and occasionally movies. DVD is still 75% (by sales). The blu-ray player does both. Online delivery is starting to break through mainstream, but isn't really firmly out of the *geek* sector yet... Especially in Europe (ikea's main market) where netflix is a joke, and bandwidth is sold by the gigabyte.

I'll be honest, as a wannabe author my backup solution involves storing on multiple computers AND gmailing myself copies as lazy-man incremental backups. I am not exactly sure what I would use a cloud drive for, since I already use gmail(and to a lesser extent docs) that way. One really sweet thing is that it is already integrated into my smart phone as-is, because emails with attachments already work there.

I think there IS a consumer gap as far as sharing files bigger than an email attachment without torrent or the like. XKCD summed it up nicely but it seems like nobody has figured out how to do it without going to jail. I am just not quite sure what cloud storage can do (that docs and gmail doesn't, that is legal) without some stupid hardware artificially making it a necessity (e.g. iPad and Kindle Fire omitting storage options)

My first development job had a Go-to hacker girl. She was awesome (and we still keep in touch). She taught me a lot about how to be a good developer, and was always arguably more skilled at programming than me.

She is the same age as me and started her career earlier than me. Today I am a VP System Engineer at a fortune 500 and she is a Registered Nurse.

I think that about sums the whole snafu up.

he was saying that they are NOW but were not when the current workforce was going through childhood.

another idiom busted

Don't forget we should be teaching biblical Pi instead of heathen devil math.

Clearly Pi = 3
Sinners.

Why would you need a new vaccine? It's not like the genetic makeup of viruses can change over time through a process of natural selection. This is the same reason why we didn't need to invent any new antibiotics after penicillin.

more likely it is because these things are always purchased with corporate HP support contracts, which are the "ink cartridges" of the business world.

Oh wait, they already do that.

I don't understand what you are getting at? The article you linked clearly makes my point.
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From your link: