MS no longer wanted to be associated with competition based on merit because the results indicated that distribution of merit along gender and racial lines was inconsistent with what MS wanted it to be.

Is MS Intel's new initials? Intel's withdrawal is indeed puzzling. But former chairman Craig Barrett offers a possible explanation:

“It’s such a premier event in terms of young people and technology,” Mr. Barrett said. “But they appear to be more interested in applied things, like” Maker Faire, an all-ages event that showcases homemade engineering projects.

It's a yolk we have to bear.

You can always calm yourself with some yolka exercises.

You may have heard that Apple had a little get together today.

This is news to me! Seriously, anyone who wants to criticize Apple should at least go to the product site for details. I'm not an Apple fan, since I don't like the low fixability quotient of Apple's mobile products. But if you're buying into the iCosystem this might not be a bad idea. You trade in your old iPhone, instead of just letting it gather dust in your closet or worse dirt in a landfill. Let's just hope that Apple really recycles the old phones and not just reexport them to the Third World.

Well thanks to the wonders of OCR we can already google physical books and street views. So the next step would be to extend recognition technology from static objects to events, objects with the added dimension of time.

Cloning mammoths is good practice for cloning Putin. Maybe the next version will be shaggier.

Don't forget the infamous Apple vs. Microsoft copyright infringement case, Microsoft did us a world of good. Imagine where Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu, maybe even Android would be today if Apple had won: goodbye graphical user interface, hello smooth-talking HAL? But until the processing power caught up, the command prompt would rule.

Let's turn Mars into a prison planet. Now that's a tired and true sci-fi scenario. Death-row inmates get a chance to choose between a one-way trip to the red planet and a one-way trip to the lethal injection room.

If that's the case, why can't they just coordinate with the Mars Society, who have been doing Mars analog missions for a longer time? Antartica's probably the best place to do Mars-like testing.

I won't argue that there are still holes in the theory. But those are holes similar to the gaps in the theory of evolution. The theories are sound as a whole but there are still mysteries to be solved.

Lennart OS should be called Lennix Not/Linux.

I'm not an quantum physicist, but the loopholes appear to be in the experiments intended to demonstrate the "spookiness" of quantum theory, not the theory itself:

The first Bell test was carried out in 1981, by Alain Aspect’s team at the Institute of Optics in Palaiseau, France. Many more have been performed since, always coming down on the side of spookiness — but each of those experiments has had loopholes that meant that physicists have never been able to fully close the door on Einstein’s view.

Autoplay is one "feature" I've never understood. Why can't the default be a still image from the video, either taken automatically, the way desktop file managers from Windows to OSX to Gnome and KDE create thumbnails, or uploaded separately by the content creator? Even a pop-up asking you to click to play is better than an autoplay explosion.

This is a failure of detection not interception. The laser will only work if somebody first spots the drone.

Probably...

Just as short but more sexy.