"you're left with a Windows system afterwards". What do you expect? Linux running after a System Restore inside Windows? ðY...

How can we make sure that the digits are even correct? What would prevent an algorithm to generate random numbers after some millions of valid digits?

Apple shouldn't have invited U2 but Keane to sing "Bend and Break"!

A lot of things actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

I'm 40, had glasses since I was 4 and I had LAZIK done 1 year ago. Waking up and seeing immediately clear was the most moving change I noticed. Getting your son waking you up and seeing him clearly is awesome. And I also had to loose a lot of reflexes about getting my glasses first thing when I woke up, trying to find them after the shower, .... It took time but they're mostly gone. As someone who does quite a bit of sport now, it's so much better without glasses. Especially when I sweat a lot. And also wearing any type of sunglasses, not only the ones more costly that had lenses adapted to the view.

They should rename it Multivac, as in Asimov's short story: "The Last Question" : http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-question/

How long till people start stealing the drones as they see one landing (by throwing a net on them for instance) and hack the firmware so they have their own drone?

The atomic number of Molybdenum is 42!

Reminds me of "The Diamond Moon", volume 5 of the "Venus Prime" book serie by Paul Preuss (based on novels by Arthur C Clarke, again him!).

They explore Europa by drilling into the ice layer and using a submarine to navigate the water below. Interesting books for sci-fi fans!

Because you can not have reproducable results on the real Internet. Only a fake one, where eveyrthing is controlled and reproducable, can be used for testing and making sure some settings do not make the browser slower.

I've seen some time ago another concept for the same, apparently in China. Here is the link to a video explaining how it would work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snFmLkOmkjE

So if you block the fake URL-shortening domain with an "ad-blocker" or at the browser level (à la Google Chrome), you avoid pretty simply the redirection to the spam side, without having to block the legitimate URL-shortening sites. Or am I missing something?

QNAP ( http://www.qnap.com/ ) makes nice NAS servers, running Apache, MySQL, ... and a download manager that supports BitTorrent and HTTP downloads. 32rd party applications for iPhone and Android supports remote access to the download manager to check the status or add new downloads.