This is the conclusion I reached as well--working across a midnight would be a logistical nightmare.

Is it just me or would a wave of low-skilled immigrants be a disaster for people on the low-end of the economic spectrum who are already here? Or is Google only thinking about high-skilled immigrants, i.e. the ones they want to hire?

Haven't gotten any of the scam calls that are from indian call centers requesting you install remote sessions for them to "assess your virus infections" yet have you ? These for some reason are still allowed to run there from the same scum trying to get cash out of google there.

And the Kronar is backed by the full faith of the Icelandic government. And it's utterly worthless. There are plenty more currencies backed by their governments around the world that are similarly worthless and abandoned by its citizens whenever possible. And some of those countries have a military too, before you ask. The Euro is doing quite well against the dollar, and there is no military behind it. The collective trust in a currency is far more important than the government that is backing it.

My grandma wanted a simple computer to check her email and Google. I loaned her my Ubuntu netbook to try out. She loved it.

Unfortunately, the rest of my family decided they knew better and got her a giant, heavy Windows laptop which has proceeded to sit on her desk, collecting dust, ever since. Sigh.

Stop following me on the internet, MOM!

Came here to say this. Sort of. Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which the article quotes. A meme is basically an idea, or concept, that replicates from host to host. An internet meme is just one kind of meme, but in common parlance has become just meme. But yeah, the word was created to show how ideas mutate and evolve like genes, so it shouldn't surprise us that they actually do. It's nice to see confirming evidence though, I guess.

How will residents of Turkey's largest city learn of their home's rich history?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZcYtqg

Or, if you prefer the classic version...

That doesn't make any sense, since it would have to have taken in place in some sort of prequel, which was never made.

The Millennium Falcon crashed. The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid belt are...well, they're not good, let's just leave it at that.

The two are heavily correlated. I'd expect a much greater percentage of programmers to know about bitcoins than I would local law enforcement. Then again, if Bitcoins are actively being used for illegal transactions, I suppose it's plausible that the local popo are better informed than I might have thought (I still doubt they're being given history lessons on the currency...).

THIS! I work in an office filled with programmers, research scientists and software devs--when I told them Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity was revealed, they all said, "who?"

*If* she killed herself, it sounds like it was due to long-standing clinical depression rather than her "falling on her sword" or somesuch. But the truth is we don't know *what* happened, and everyone is just reporting on pure speculation.

According to the Washington Post, "Police have so far classified the death as 'unnatural,' which can mean an accident, misadventure, or suicide," and they've taken that and combined it with "Last month she linked to an article on entrepreneurs suffering depression, commenting above the link: everything has its price." WaPo stops short of outright *saying* she committed suicide, but that's certainly the conclusion they're leading their readers to.

I thought you were going to make some pithy remark that the U.S. dollar is little different from Bitcoin in that regard, but perhaps you haven't realizede that yet.