The real story is that MySpace is still operational at all. I thought it shut down years ago.

One errant sensor can bring down a plane? Yeah. That makes sense....

The status? The only status they care about is if you plan to live there as a primary residence, or if you will be renting it.

They don't ask about your reasoning to purchase a home, and even if they did it wouldn't require a level of detail beyond, "because I want to"

That would be completely idiotic. Pick a city. Stop this nonsense. #FFS

And none of those are Texas where this crime allegedly took place. Texas sets the age at 18.

No state in the US grants adulthood to anyone under the age of 18. There are two territories in the US that do grant adulthood at lower ages. They are American Samoa (14) and Puerto Rico (14). Other states (such as Nebraska) have an age of Majority of 19.

The age of adulthood (or majority) under Federal law is 18 with respect to legal matters.

So... If you're 16, you are legally a child.

Correcting a mistake doesn't make something a contest. Facts do matter.

1. How exactly would they move customs inspection from an airport firmly inside the U.S. to a spot outside of the U.S. without moving the entire airport? Sure, fly in to Washington Dulles, but first we stop in Bermuda? Hardly.

2. The bill explicitly forbids that, so like, unless they have a reason to detain you other than, "I want to check your stuff", they wouldn't be able to do it.

Very good point. If/When this becomes more than a research project you'll probably see entire snippet databases, each with licensing requirements similar to graphics engines (free if less than X revenue, y% for every dollar over that number), flat fees, annual subscriptions on the database free to use whatever you make), etc.

It really won't. So instead of having to manually code it, you need the exact same type of person to specify requirements with as much precision and detail as possible. An act they were already doing while coding. They will have to do this repeatedly while working out the bugs in their requirements (aka, code), and probably still needing to manually fix things here and there. So like, thanks for AI Snippets?

So he cites three scenarios: Nuclear war, global warming, and genetically-engineered viruses. Then says we should have more planets to ensure a single incident doesn't destroy us. Given how much he and others have been spewing "AI is our DOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!" I'm surprised that's not on his list too. That aside his entire talk comes down to saying "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." Thanks man.

Get the folks behind the Delta Works in the Netherlands. Have them build a version that works for New York City. That, or build a time machine, go back to when someone got the bright idea to build a big ass city that's surrounded by water on 3 sides at sea level and stab them repeatedly with a steak knife.

Documents created by Office on a Surface RT will work with all other versions of MS Office. Those documents will also work with the version of Office on the Surface RT. As for other apps not working. It's a trivial matter to port an application to RT.

Yes, because we all know that the only company that ever has bugs in their products is Microsoft. After all, Apple just released an amazingly functional maps replacement for Google maps, Apple has never had hardware bugs with their devices, Bethesda software never has bugs in any of their games released to market, all versions of Android based hardware ship bug free and never need updates. /sarcasm off

Google has around 80% market share for internet searches in the EU. They are in the neighborhood of 66% in the US based on ComScore's assessment earlier this month. The same assessment lists Bing at 15.9, Yahoo at just under 12.8, and two remaining at less than 3% each. Google is a clear leader, but their manipulation of search results allows them to maintain and extend their lead which is exactly where you start running into trouble with the FTC. Any time you have a clear lead, monopoly, borderline monopoly, whatever, and you leverage your service to misrepresent your competitors you are being anti-competitive. Dicking around with the page ranks of your competition is misrepresentation no matter how you slice it. Even Eric Schmidt alluded to Google being a monopoly a year ago: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-21/tech/30183638_1_monopoly-web-browser-market-microsoft