1) Install WIFI nodes covering the entire USA
2) Sell wireless SIP phones that connect to a massive VOIP server.
3) Profit.

Even if you only had service within city limits, you'd already be much more reliable than any cellular carrier I've ever tried. My android phone can run a SIP client and I've been kicking around the idea of just dropping the cellular contract and rolling my own solution with an asterisk server on a cloud service and a local wifi provider.

That's not what newspapers were about. Giving a eulogy while the subject is still coughing up blood is a bit unorthodox, but here we go! Newspapers were low-budget operations that spent as little as possible on everything while putting ad revenue in the pockets of their owners. Next to the restaurant industry, they were the least forward-looking group of people I've ever seen. They are actually very similar to the restaurant industry in a lot of ways; labor violations abound, they never spend money on anything they don't absolutely have to and they never, ever, EVER plan for the future. Saying that a Newspaper should have developed the media application of the future is about as ludicrous as saying that McDonald's should genetically engineer the bull of the future, except that McDonald's is actually more likely to do that.

There will still be reporters and the news sites that managed to adapt enough to survive in the Internet era, but I don't think there will be print papers for that much longer. I suspect Google will be the largest employer of reporters in the future, and that they'll somehow figure out how to outsource local news reporting. Google had the kind of vision to build the media platform of the future. Newspapers didn't.

Couldn't they just solve this problem with some sort of "laser"?

Are you saying that the military guards who protect the entrances to the UK's military headquarters buildings are unarmed? Really?

You know you don't need to use that window manager, right? Just rip that shit out and install IceWM or Enlightenment or something. Configure them to launch the programs you use on a regular basis (Terminal, EMACS, Web Browser, IRC!) and you're set!

From what I can tell, Citrix is just a tool you use to see if your CIO is a dumbass and needs to be fired. (Hint: If he says you need to install it, the answer is "yes".) I'd be happy to retract this statement if anyone can point me to an actually usable installation of Citrix.

This is like a fight to the death between Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus. No matter who loses, I win! *gets popcorn*

The guy (dead now) who shot up the Navy Yard had previously been in the military. And all he needed was a simple shotgun. The sort of thing that VP Biden says is exactly what people should own for hunting and self defense. He used that simple shotgun to shoot a military guard and gain access to that guard's handgun. He came across the rifle inside the Yard, said the Washington Post.

And no, just about nobody can buy an assault rifle. Do you mean a semi-auto rifle no different than every rancher uses to kill varmints in his cow pasture, only also equipped with black plastic parts that make no difference in lethality, but which make it look scarier to uninformed soccer moms?

Schlake? Is that you?

They were... probably spying on the wrong internets at the time...

Well if they're monitoring all that shit, maybe you should just complain to THEM when Paypal freezes your account! "Hey guys, you have my entire payment history! Tell those guys to cough up my cash!"

Yup, pretty sure I'm going to end up in a dark room somewhere with *cough* Freedom cables hooked up to my testicles.

This all came about because their head guy is an internet addict and couldn't get enough cat videos on youtube.

I'm sure they'll bring this post up when they have me in a dark room with jumper cables hooked up to my testicles."Not so funny now, is it, bitch?"

I'd rather drop $10 in an online tip jar of a band in Japan or Kenya than give it to some parasitical US music studio that will take the lion's share of the money for itself and use it to pursue a piracy jihad against its users if its profits don't make their numbers for the quarter. Sure a lot of those garage bands are complete crap, but at least they're doing it for the love of music. And even if their delivery is imperfect, sometimes their artistic vision more than makes up for their musical talents. So go ahead and kill the "professional music business." I'm sure we'll all have fun dancing on its grave, to music it would never have been able to imagine.

No Nazi death rays? Damn, I was hoping for a new sub-genre of Holocaust movie with really cool CGI effects.

Holocaust deniers keep prattling on about how hard it would be to incinerate 6 million Jews. They full of sh*t because, as Nazis, Holocaust deniers know about the secret Nazi weapon that could vaporize entire cities and boil oceans. With such a super Nazi death ray it was a sinch to vaporize millions of human bodies.