Haptic feedback from your touchpad, plus DS-like features. Very sexy, and the only company who could get away with it would be Apple.

More freedom, more power, more control, are all good things. Don't like a feature?

Don't use it. Have a better idea?

Well, now you can develop your idea on:

Phones, tablets, set-top boxes, and cars.

I agree, I struggle to think of a good use for such things, but who knows - all you have to do is use it ONCE, and it was worth it. I've been in tight jams before, and said to myself "There must be a solution out there!", and there it was, in handy app form.

Personally, I think this is exactly something that NASA should be doing. NASA is about pushing the envelope, and this is just as good an envelope to push as any.

This sort of bleeding edge technology development is expensive and wasteful, so it only makes sense for the government to be doing it. Which isn't a bash against government (well, it sorta is), as that is what I want the government to do. Leave making money to the people.

And I honestly don't believe it'll get that bad. We are fortunate to have people like you to watch people like me like hawks, so that all the alarms are sounded, and far away, in a distant room, a scientist bursts into an office and shouts "MR. PRESIDENT! WE HAVE GOT TO STOP USING OIL!", he gets thrown into jail, the public finds out, Britain has another revolution, France gets invaded, and so on.

tl;dr: You're wrong, but you can't stop shouting.

And I say that with respect, good sir.

Loose fitting

At least three pockets, with at least one near the knee (hopefully not in an especially pendulous location)

Pockets that are designed to be actually used.

I keep my keys in my top right front pocket, which is big, my wallet in my lower right leg pocket, music player/cell phone in top left pocket.

Cell phone used to be in the bottom left leg pocket, but I got a Nexus One and got rid of my iPod promptly.

The privacy issue is bigger than this, but this is what is at the heart of things like Facebook - unashamedness of who you really are, for the few who choose to embrace it.

If you're talking about Inbound, then, sorry. I just can't trust you guys.

But does it run Linux?

I agree it's shitty, but it detracts from the fact that you have to pay an extra 20$ a month to use a DVR.

I made it out, I'm assuming, an intelligent person capable of thinking for myself.

My school was hardly anything special, however, I had just enough amazing teachers at just the right time to get me where I am now, among many other variables.

I suppose my point is that the teachers are the ones who can affect us. If you're throwing more money at schools, give it ONLY to the teachers who deserve it.

Admittedly, I also have two parents who gave me the tools and put me in a position to be affected by the good teachers I had. It's not an easy solution, but it can be done, and yes, the school system is where the magic happens. Those 12 years need to radically change.

The important thing here is that we found one physically smaller than anything else. Superconductors are also a pretty Big Deal - their unique properties are very handy in certain applications.

Which is the point: it kicks open the doors of "...We just need something smaller". The consumer market is where stuff like this gets eventually. The applications for industry, development, and who knows what else could be far and wide.

Your cynicism makes me sad. : (

What right do we have to say "You can't spend money to improve yourself" to anyone, much less the right to say the opposite? As a society, it our duty to improve. The definition of "improve" is the meaning of life, if we knew what it was we where supposed to improve, we would all do it. Look at the stupid things people do when someone is just really convincing about it.

The issue is that, up until this point, the really big sticking point is life.

We simply don't understand it. It drives the frothy-natured scientists of the astral, biological, and other fundamental type sciences. They're not crazy, it's just that understanding the laws of the universe chip away at what life is about. The more we discover around us, the more we can reflect on our place in it. So far... it's pretty fucking bad news bears out there.

Hence the frothed nature of genetics.

Not crazy. In this case, there's even a missing gene, TFA suggested, right? I think there's a clear way that "everyone else" is, genetically speaking. I see no reason to not ask someone "Would you like to replace a missing gene to enable your seeing the fullest colour spectrum possible?", and then do that procedure if they chose to. Totally fucked healthcare systems aside, hopefully it wouldn't be too expensive.

And what of other genetic diseases? We fight cancer and AIDS and all the rest, and have defeated a good many, but we don't really know what the bugs are capable of. That's ok - we've got a lot of smart people who really don't want to die, and good technology. To not do the one and only thing we can realistically do to remove debilitating genetic diseases?

Wealth really does add an ugly spin to all this. But I do ask you this - do you think they could get away it, today? Done knowingly, it would make lots of people very mad.

The option to be able to do such a thing is much more useful and helpful. The opportunity to be smarter? What if it led us down unlocked the parts of our brain we don't use? What if the remaining (what was it? 97%?) of brain we leave dark is needed to FIND the meaning of life.

I'm trying to tell you, that work of this fundamental nature is way too valuable to not be discovered and researched like crazy. Sometimes, bad things happen, but we usually have, at the very least, an angry mob making a lot of noise about it.

Thank god for it. Jesus, do people not know about that?

The end user should always have as much control as possible. Facebook taking control away is lame.

Everyone who complains about Facebook needs to shut up. It is just another way communicating. in many cases, passively, and people like being lazy. Care about my day? Look me up, bitch.

It is empowerment, if you look at it the right way. Do people use it this idealistically?

I wish : /