It has not become easier to move goods across the Canada/US border in the last 10 years.

Have you ever tried suing Oracle?

It might give you a target but you've not going to extract anything from them except perhaps 3 months credit on the licensing costs.

Deal. But if you expose any material not related to the case through improper redacting you will be held liable for any losses incurred over a 10 year span.

TFA says first law, I'd like to see it obey all three laws, except I'd make the second law "A robot must obey the orders given to it by its owner, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law".

So same as today then? The phone company, which is the phones owner, gives a command and the phone obeys by turning in the carriers position.

Nearly all billionaires have a minimum of a half-dozen staff on hand to fulfill their needs (getting coffee, taking notes, arranging travel/meetings, handling visitors, security, etc.)

Their position and behavour are already tracked by their companies (which they typically own a large portion of) in far more detail than you ever will be.

One of the hazards of being rich is that you are never alone.

Add up the number of deaths by nuke.

Now add up the numebr of deaths by gunshot.

Which is larger?

A little bigger than a single Canadian corporate farm (larger ones hit 100 square miles).

You don't even need a big group of people. A cook and QA person within any food processing factory would be enough.

Hit McDonalds ketchup supply chain with something that takes a day to be visible in the host. They'll shut it down quickly once detected but you could still impact a very large number of people.

Many botnet clients apply security patches to prevent others from taking the machine.

2560x1600 30" is 100.63dpi. This is exactly what the article writer was complaining about; stagnent DPI.

If that resolution was on a 9" screen then you would have roughly the equivalent DPI as an iPhone.

Not really. It is a game to be won by the person with the most consistent ping time.

Either way, if you're paying several hundred thousand for a domainname then locating staff nearer to the server shouldn't be a big deal for a one-time event.

Not certain where you are but in North America (Canada too) peak electricity consumption is during the hotest summer days and typically during the afternoon to early evening (3pm to 7pm).

20 years ago you were correct. Air Conditioning, however, completely changed that.

I choose what I give over to Facebook or Google.

A large chunk of the information Facebook and Google know about you was collected from people other than you.

You can choose what you give Facebook/Google, but you cannot choose or limit what knowledge they have about you.

A CSV or XML or JSON file is a db (a DB is just structured data).

Are relational DBs always required? Certainly not.

The big benefit to a relational DB with lots of enforcement at the data layer is that you can have one or more applications reading/writing to it with minimal concern of data corruption.

What isn't obvious is that second application is often aggregate reporting for management. "How many customers are using $foo and where do they live geographically". With a relational DB, I might knock that query out in a few minutes across millions of customers.

With a flat XML file per customer spread across a number of servers, this could take days to assemble, particularly if $foo is nested deep in the structure.

Having spent far too much time writing one-off scripts to gather customer data because the middleware didn't support that type of query, I've actually gone the other way and started shoving some business logic into the DB.

Functions such as isCustomerPaymentOverdue are now in the relational DB with a very thin model in the middleware to allow for much easier and faster reporting.

Yes? So Intel was right and there are things in a CPU other than gates.