The paywall often disappears if you access the news sites via Google (News), so you just need to search for the article's title, and click to access the full article. Sorry... I know.. I'm a bad boy...

Libertarianism implies than private citizen can do charity if they want, and it's not the role of the government to be a gigantic (and inefficient) charity. Taxes will be lower, you would end up with more money for yourself, which you can use as you wish: buy much stuff for yourself, give it to charity, organize your own private fund to save poor banks... whatever..

That's why they'll do "Ass Calibration" regularly.

The TV shows said they took controlled of the drone remotely and landed it safely.

You had free speech. I think we've read they wanted to ban websites with content promoting terrorism. If the game was taking down the Trade Centre, I'm sure it would be banned.

Many small business using open source in their products would not even exist without open source software as it would cost too much to develop the software internally.

An article about benchmarks without benchmark charts, that the first time I've seen that, I'm really impressed.

scare the people and tell them we live in a dangerous world, so that we can start a new war soon. Against Iran maybe.

An engineer would most definitely do a better job than a lawyer...

BTRFS file systems can be used in Linux and offers compression. It will be the default FS in Fedora 17.

She should also sue Wikipedia then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Bilderback and Facebook: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Bilderback although the last two may have taken it from imdb.

Life expectation will actually decline in the next few decades because we reaching peak everything and approaching the earth carrying capacity. So yes, some people may be able to life up to 150 years old, but most will live shorter lives.

HTML5 will replace Flash, not native applications.

The reason UEFI will replace BIOS is that it's a standard and not every vendors will have their own BIOS implementations. It also provide support for fast boot and large disks (> 2.2 TB).

I don't see why they would need fast release. It worked just fine the way they proceeded before. Chrome is doing faster releases, but why should Firefox care ? Firefox is where it's at because of plugins, and after each update I lose some plugins for some days and some forever. If Firefox wants to do fast release to close security holes and/or fix bugs fine, but those types of release should in no way change the API and break support for existing plugins.