You've been reading too much To Serve Man; humans aren't spam.

Oh, you mean British citizens also don't want to be held accountable for their government's actions, just like American citizens? Who knew?

Apparently now they need to get a return warrant.

Because it would have totally been not suspicious if the server that was seized by the FBI was returned by some unknown guys in t-shirts and jeans?

He's more than welcome to innovate. The issue is whether or not his modifications violated the terms of his dorm lease, which is ehy residence hall officials want to talk to him. For example, if you sign a lease contract that says you can't drill holes into the walls, and then your landlord heard from folks that you did that anyway, do you expect to be let off the hook for the damages because you've come up with a revolutionary new way of line-drying your laundry?

...on the sort of basic questions Siri's capable of answering, something went horribly wrong with your query.

If you're fine with credential sharing, then yes, the New York Times allows you to access it on different devices. As for your Economist subscription, a digital subscription costs the exact same as a paper + digital subscription. If you don't need to read the paper version then going digital-only would reduce GHG emissions.

It wasn't a real system; he was just throwing ideas out there. The reason this was brought up (and this interview occurred LAST May) was simply an off-the-cuff example of a mechanism of rewarding players who give back to the community. The fact that they haven't actually implemented that exact system should clue you into a possible reason why they didn't actually do it.

It's not a real proposal; it was taken out of context (this Q&A happened months ago). He was just throwing things out there.

Ribbon? I just use keyboard shortcuts.

Because they originally wanted $2 billion. Seriously.

>Then they should simplify since Apple shows it does a better job of making money.

Apple does a better job of making money because they ignore the business market and sell consumer products at high margins; this isn't a criticism of them, but a statement of fact: Apple would never have done a $300 netbook.

You know, Apple has separate two operating systems that share a good deal of code as well: OS X and iOS. Would we even be having this discussion if Metro wasn't in 8/8 Pro and Windows RT was officially called something like Leaf OS?

From the article:

Not recruiting, training. The government has two options when it comes to employing virtual environments for training purposes: write their own specialized code, or take something from off-the-shelf and mod it.

"Dont get me wrong, games can be high stress, but not nearly as high stressed as one wrong move and you cease to exist, games a have reset button and a spawn location"

Well shit, I guess we better give up on all training because you can always restart a training session and it won't have as much urgency as the real thing.

"And since they were stupid enough to put Intel chips in the machines they don't even get a power/battery life advantage."
Oddly enough, the latest Chrome OS prototypes that were leaked were running on ARM.

"The problem is the whole net centrism of Chrome OS."
The average computer user -- i.e., not you or me -- these days spends most of their time in the browser, so this really isn't as big a problem as you think it is... for the average computer user.

"Don't think Chrome itself is available on Linux/ARM but the unofficial Chromium almost certainly is."
Considering that most of the Chrome source code is drawn from Chromium project, calling Chromium "unofficial" is somewhat of an insult.