"Valve has been doing pretty well for years now with its Steam variation on this theme. "
You mean the BARELY usable for slow paced games Steam IN-HOME streaming? That product that REQUIRES you have a mid-range modern gaming PC mear meters away and requires proprietary third-party software to use any input device more exotic than a mouse, keyboard or gamepad?
THAT is your big "America is ready to give up the PC" evidence?
I'm sorry Journalists, for what i said about the future of bloggers back in 2000, please please please come back!
I know it wouldn't guarantee quality but they would at least be trained to check their facts...

I know responding to an AC is pointless but this is some silly shit

You know who shop at Walmart? The fucking AMISH. Nobody can claim that THEY are living a disposable lifestyle, throwing things away before their time.
You can still darn a Hanes sock, patch a pair of Wrangler jeans, tighten the binding on a Mr.Clean broom and much more.
You say "They don't make 'em like they used to"? You aren't fixing them like they used to.
We are living in a time where the "Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness" is relegated to very specific classes of folks (people who buy multiple $200 beater cars because they can't afford the one time layout & new entrepreneurs) if you are here chances are you have the means to purchase and capacity to learn to maintain more durable options.

In the good old days any public library worth a damn would have dozens of phone books available not to mention the fact that you could just request one be sent to you for any given area and to top it all off there has always been the operator you could call for directory assistance for a few cents. The tools have always been there you just had to be smarter than the recycled tree pulp in the pages to use it back then.

Well the EU would be obligated to move into the Ukrainian conflict to protect it's citizens, then as the war was won and the rebels retreated into Russian territory the EU would be obligated to give some form of chase, then Russia would shoot up a few EU troops claiming they violated it's sovereign territory, the EU and Russia would skirmish unofficially until a tipping point ,then Russia would lose it's UN Super Vieto, There would finally be sanctions, the sanctions would turn into blockades, Russian assets would be seized fibreoptic lines severed pipelines emptied as Russia was isolated, world Oil Prices would soar, all tech development would dry up as any money not in oil would go into alternative energy, the old Russian Bloc would become a colder version of mad max and America would barely notice a change except for bitching about the price of shipping and the new electric cars.

That's what would happen if there were concrete proof that the russian backed rebels shot down the airline.

Right but these in particular, OCZ is kinda renowned for being unreliable across their entire product range.

Isn't that the plot to one of the Metal Gear games?

Here is a decent example of why computers can't drive trucks.
The other day one of the drivers at my wife's company pulled into dock normally and damaged the truck.
What happened?
There was a dip in the pavement sufficient to, when entered while turning, fold the truck at the hitch to the point where the cab extenders (wind breaks on the side) came in contact with the trailer.
What could have been done?
If the driver had been significantly more experienced he would have seen the dip in the road and made a 3 point turn and backed straight into the dock, with both cab extenders folding to the side of the trailer.
Because of this and ten thousand other possibilities and special cases I don't think autonomous delivery is going to be possible in the near future if at all.

Not defending this as anything more than an update of VRML but..
Bloat as compared to what exactly, Chrome? IE? That totally not IE new Microsoft browser? Safari?

The only browsers not adding more junk than needed are the ones with totally minimal market share like iCab who trade on being a niche product.

It's a USB/NFC multi-factor authentication token.
It acts as an additional requirement to logging in to a computer, cellphone or network beyond a password.
YubiCo is a company that makes budget security tokens with the YubiKey Neo being their "top of the line" at a price of 50usd
One of the main security features of tokens of this nature is their inability to be tampered with since it is guaranteed to be connected to a computer.
Many manufacturers achieve this by "potting" the circuit board (coating it entirely in plastic rather than using a shell like most electronics) in some sort of difficult to remove chemically resistant plastic.
The YubiKey Neo was potted in a plastic that melted totally in nail polish remover
The fact that the plastic can be removed so easily along with a poor USB connector and keychain loop disprove YubiCo's claim that the YubiKey Neo is "virtually indestructible".

WoW has 7.1 million subscribers this quarter (Q1 '15).
Q4 '14 (When the Warlords of Draenor expansion hit) WoW had 10 Million subscribers.
Q3 '14 there were 7.4 million.
Q2 '14 There were 6.8 million
It is pretty obvious that new content is not helping retain players for more than a month or teo.
It's all downhill from here, unless some miracle happens.

They gave that up in the update last week.
They took out all the "not a genuine arduino" popups and even added expanded and simplified tools for adding board designs including the ESP2866.
Obviously they want your money, everyone does, but they have seen the error of their methods and moved forward in a positive way.