"The department’s authorized 2013 budget, after sequester, totals $565.8 billion - by far the largest chunk of the annual federal budget approved by Congress. Yet the Pentagon is literally unable to account for itself. As proof, consider that a law in effect since 1992 requires annual audits of all federal agencies – and the Pentagon alone has never complied."

This is gross, and is insulting to the consumer. During thanksgiving, 1/2 of my family was using or thinking about buying Apple products, and it's primarily because of outrageous practices such as this. 50 crapware programs pre-installed? Is this comedy?

That's not CS, that's CSE. There's a major difference between those degrees. CS is about math, algorithms, and architecting software. CSE is all of that + electrical engineering, which basically means you end up learning how to design chips, etc.

But they're so convincing! "FAR SURPASSES SPIELBERG, KUBRICK, OR EVEN HITCHCOCK! Films such as Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Schindlers List pale in comparison to this staggering, luminescent, wondrous cinematic masterpiece. Again, this is an understatement."

As someone who was part of an online business that got 80% of first time sales from google ads, I disagree. You're also sorely mistaken if you think that successful web businesses don't track ROI and which customers are coming from where. It's incredibly easy to do even for a layman, and it's very hard to make money with an ebusiness without doing it. There are so many companies in every product category that staying alive comes down to SEO and ad management.

"The computer giant today admitted to having a fleet of planes and helicopters which have been flying over major cities around the world." And so commences the Apple Invasion.

Sure, and let's do that to people using torrents too! ISPs should be dumb pipes, it's better than way. Be careful what you wish for.

If spiders can learn how to build a web in zero gravity after a few tries (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/story?id=6301339&page=1), it's safe to say that birds/fish would probably be able to navigate, at least as far as physics allows them to. Obviously things like the magnetic pathfinding of birds would be useless in space.

New Zealand is responsible for what they do in their own backyard with their own police forces. If they want to surrender their sovereignty to a bunch of RIAA/MPAA hacks who have paid off the right people, that's their prerogative. It's obvious that they've realized the mistake and are trying to make things right, but in the end it's NZ that screwed up here.

Medfield is on 32nm.

A tax that increases at an exponential rate, what more could a government hope for!