A standout scene from Breaking Bad was when Walt writes out his first (huge) check/cheque for his chemo. This single scene from so many memorable ones across that incredible series summed up what is wrong with contemporary society. We are powerless ants subservient to corporations with as much compassion and sense of right and wrong as a hungry wolf. To solve all this, we need to completely disconnect from the grid. Make our own electricity (with help from Tesla Energy), collect our own water from rain - and filter it, and use architectural concepts that ensure natural cooling and warming, with clever use of large windows and airflow. Google 'Earthships' to see some amazing sustainable living homes of this type in the USA. The number one way to destroy an evil industry legally is to starve it of money, so don't spend money on energy you don't make yourself!

http://www.engie.com/en 1. Cute name to imply everything is now ok - CHECK! 2. Hipster video backdrops that having nothing to do with the service they offer (and that's the point, what DO they offer?) - CHECK! 3. Uppy downy pages that don't say anything - CHECK! 4. Hipster auto generated Kickstarter video music that will one day be farmed out to supermarkets and elevators - CHECK! 5. As per 1, hard if impossible to find out what they do or more so, why they are important - CHECK! The direct contrast to Tesla or Apple. Although the latter does engage in uppy downy pages.

ha ha, brilliant!

Back when I was a caveman, (Ogg the Massive), if I felt peckish, whilst the missus scrubbed the cave and Ogg the Minor made hand prints on the walls upsetting said missus, I popped out to the plains and grabbed a few oranges from the bush. This took approximately 3 of what you modern humans call minutes. If I wanted a spear, I popped out again, grabbed a branch from the tree, broke the twigs off and sharpened the end using a nearby piece of flint. Ogg's your Uncle, instant satisfaction, and if a gazelle was passing by, the ability to enjoy the odd steak - all within about an hour of initial pangs! As I was saying, nothing changes. Amazon have just returned things to normal, cutting out the annoying environmental disaster that is to have to get in a car and pollute the environment all for a USB cable. One truck, many customers is better than many customers in lots of cars! And drones will make the process even more efficient. #ScTcObRbK #tt_ScTcObRbK

I love cats, but this made me chuckle.

That's it! (What software that does come with them is excellent, such as Garage Band, iPhoto etc on some machines.)

...massively overpriced, which is why there exists such a huge community of pirates. How many of you have spent some time on Pirate Bay seeking torrents for CS5 because whilst you're honest, there is no way you can afford $$$$.$$ for your tools? Hmmm? This will force greedy publishers to produce better more reliable software - just as the iOS and Android developers have done. This is not Armageddon, it is the way forward. @oflife

...if a few months ago. It sought a gifted https web engineer for a revolutionary project that would make the world sit up and go wow again. (Not quoted verbatim.) Further, there have been rumors, most based on patents and other developments of a system to turn iDevices into wondering terminal access systems, so you jack you iPhone into a Mac somewhere, and the Mac boots up as if you had just logged into it at home or at your desk. However, I see massive flaws in this concept, which goes against the Sun Microsystems 1990s model (The Network Is The Computer) and more recently, Google's. However, Apple may well have some hidden magic that no one has thought of, so here's to OS X 12, being 11 (Lion) is really a merging of iOS and OS X not so much a multitouch driven cloud marvel.

You are spot on. Britain has been bought by the criminals, including oil rich outsiders who are messing with our public transport, harassing the middle classes and generally creating chaos from order to ensure that evil profits whilst good men do nothing. And with regards to CCTV, what counts is strict parents keeping their children from committing crimes in the first place, rather than rely on cameras to 'police' every nook and cranny of the state, without actually preventing the crime. If our disgusting previous government had not allowed liberal family values to decimate this nation, many injured and murdered victims would not have suffered.

I have some Quark XPress files from Macintosh OS that even Indesign (which is excellent at importing old data files) cannot handle, but it has managed some that are over 10 years old. I know this is not what this question is about, but I have some files of various formats, some recent, some old, that have been corrupted but that I need back. Any ideas how I can recover them? Most are Adobe Illustrator or Quark files, and a few others Word docs. Reply at 'wazzupalex AT gmail DOT COM' and here on on /. Cheers.