Wasn't the cyber threat to our critical infrastructure overblown by DHS and CyberCom just to get a bigger budget? Why is DOE so concerned that they're going to spend 20 million of their current budget?

I stopped wearing a watch outside of work recently, for the same reason. However, no one is allowed to bring cell phones, 2-way pager, cameras, or anything that can transmit or connect to a computer. So I wear a simple Casio watch to work and typically take it off when I get home. I'd love to go to a smart watch like Pebble that can connect to my phone, display alerts, play music, etc however I couldn't wear it to work.

Like that, but with fewer buttons and way more expensive.

In combat sports where people get hurt for the amusement of spectators, we use Roman numerals.

Your planet may have sent millions of robots over the last thousand of our earth years, but this is the first one humans have sent that has drilled into rock.

Oh, and frist smaple!

I've been clicking on TFS, but no webpage comes up. Is there a link somewhere?

When I joined the Marine Corps, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I always figured it would be the foreign enemies I had to worry about.

Has this gone to the Supreme Court? I wouldn't doubt they would say something asinine like this, but it didn't say in TFS.

Just eyeballing a map of the US, I'd estimate that 100 miles in covers at least a quarter of the country. Anyone have a more accurate proportion of how much the country this covers?

Good point. Though Lamarckianism is still evolution, albeit descent with modification. Doubt that this would go over any better with the Texas board of education. Interestingly, there is some evidence of a Lamarckian mechanism at work today in people, through retro viruses carrying mutated DNA from T-cells to sperm cells. Not a major agent of evolutionary change in all likelihood, though fascinating nonetheless. See Lamarck's Signature by Robyn Lindley.

Because everyone knows there's no hacking threat. Right?

See, I thought it was Chemical X that gave Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup their super powers.

I doubt there's room in the mobile/computing ecosystem for another Apple. Anyone who likes Apple's stuff is already buying from Apple. What type of people would buy Microsoft's integrated products that aren't hooked into Apple right now? Could there really be that many to make it worthwhile?

United Arab Emirates.