10 years go Sears could have turned their locations into local delivery hubs and offered same-day delivery. But Eddie Lampert is an idiot.
Would have offered traditional shopping, pick-up, or delivery, but some people can't think outside the box.

But now, Amazon is ironically buying these closed buildings and doing almost the same thing.

Katzenberg seems to have an obsession with short form video. He tried this before and it failed, Pop!, then Awesomeness.TV.
He seems to think his success at making traditional movies will convert to short formats with high production value. These short shows are not Hemingway writing the worlds shortest novel "For sale, used baby shoes. Never worn." and never will be, so the production value is lost.
He could hire people from YouTube and offer better production standards, but relying on the same creative pool that can take a DC comicbook and produce a crap movie shows he has not learned from the last 2 attempts.

The crux of the lawsuit is:
"at the time of the NetSuite acquisition, that Larry Ellison was involved in setting up NetSuite in the late 1990s and was a major shareholder at the time of the deal."
and
"directors breached their duties when they approved a $9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite – a company controlled by Oracle chair Larry Ellison – at a huge premium above NetSuite’s trading price. Shareholders alleged that directors sanctioned Ellison’s self-dealing - and also claimed that Oracle’s board members were too entwined with Ellison to be entrusted with the decision of whether the company should sue him and other directors over the NetSuite deal"

So Larry used company money to buyout his other company at a huge profit to himself at a cost to shareholders.

Maybe this will prompt changes to include dental coverage in with medical and not some half covered separate insurance with limited payout.
Diet is so important to your health, but getting damaged teeth fixed is expensive and mostly out of pocket. So you end up eating pre-processed crap that is bad for your health.

The latest version of Windows Defender has an option to run it in sandbox mode, so even if it gets infected it can't spread.
Other AV are becoming the targets of attacks and they do not have the deep links into the OS like Defender has, so their days are numbered.

RMS has been warning of this for years, you don't own anything if it is on someone else's server.
Steam is just game rental.

But they are active even if you are not using it. They sit listening on the first Ethernet port and will even grab a DHCP address. Given the access they have, and the inability to turn them off, if they can get exploited there is nothing you can do.

Moving your connection too another NIC can stop it from communicating, but it is still active and waiting.

I think Mega Damage armor has just been invented. Giant robots are just around the corner, since we already have Juicers.

Trucks are used for a number of reasons;
Trucks are faster then rail
Is Walmart going to build a rail line to each store?
Trucks are more efficient for smaller locations, and if you wait for more freight cars to be loaded see the first point.

That is nothing compared to the money it took to design and fab the chips, and most of that money was fronted by HP, http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/hp-itanium/ .
Given the production costs and the number of customers using it, so it was always a high cost chip with mediocre performance.
Intel would rather shut down thoughs fabs and make more x86 ships which make them more money.

higher rates of insanity?
The persecution that people feel from not being able to live up to the confusing examples of religion, and the various interpretations of it, could be responsible for the illness to begin with.

I installed the RC3 version a few weeks ago and been pleased with it. I have a stand alone MythTV backend and 2 frontends, so now I don't have to use Mythfrontend any more since LiveTV did not work unless it was a combo backend/frontend. I like how you can see what will be recorded next on the home screen, and I can make changes to the recording scedule which I cold not do in the Mythbox add-on.

But it is not perfect. Commercial skip does not work for MythTV recordings, and the system is very slow to get working when it first starts as it queries the MythTV backend which takes a few minutes for you can watch anything.

When Google had it's IPO it used an auction system that made the pricing more fair, but did not make the underwriters as much money.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/1999/05/what_is_a_dutch_auction_ipo.html

If you are too lazy to RTFA:
"If the first guy bid $100 per share for the eight shares, and the second guy bid $75 per share for the 12 shares, they only pay what the last guy bid--say, $50 per share."
"Naturally, there is great competition to be one of the lucky few buying shares at the low price. In an ordinary IPO, the investment bank decides who gets to buy these discounted shares, funneling them to its best clients, usually rich individuals or large institutions (pension funds, endowments, etc...). This is a good deal for the prized clients, who make easy money, and for the investment bank, which gets to impress clients. But it's a bad deal for the firm holding the IPO because they could have reaped that capital."

My wife has been looking for one these to use at the university library. People hang out there talking loudly on their phones and since the 'librarians' are just other students they won't stop it, and the real ones don't care.

They were the lowest bidder, so people got what they paid for. If you want a secure e-voting system then be prepared to dish out a lot of cash to security experts to test and lock it down, then test and lock down again.