If you want to drive -- if that's really your thing, your passion, your hobby -- I'm sure there will always be a place you can go and do that.

Societally, I'm glad to have us focusing on improving safety and efficiency of transportation.

Think past the automobile era.

Wow. Touchy. It was funny anyway, Indra, if you don't work at Facebook. Because the freakin' birthday notifications are a plague on the planet.

They got a birthday notification from the planet's Facebook page.

Most of the people who will see the film can tell the difference between fact and fiction, including being able to generally identify the wide swath in between. This is not going to be a "Batman" blockbuster. It's not even going to be a "The Social Network" blockbuster.

Anyone who had an opinion on whether or not Mark Zuckerberg was sort of a sleaze did not have their opinion changed by seeing "The Social Network."

That sentence totally cracked me up, as well, and prevented me from taking anything else he said seriously.

"Dude, come back when you understand how funny that was."

... make forecasts of technological advancements, market adoption rates, production scale and resultant pricing all the time. Quite often, they come up with them pretty much the same way you would: By asking around.

McKinsey, same product, often the same methodology.

And it is *astonishing* how many of those reports you cannot find on the Internet later, when you want to make fun of them.

Yes, the search page say 86,700 results, or whatever. But you only get 13 results, and then the:

"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 13 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."

Asking for omitted results gives you a grand total of 73 results, no matter WHAT the top of the results page says ...

So ... nothing to see here, at all. Bullsh*t.

We're getting perilously close to "Don't say anything out loud that you don't want to be public."

"The Library's mission is to support the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people." (from its website.) No, I don't see how archiving Twits and tweets furthers this mission *at all.*

It's not much of a step from there to archiving all the phone conversations of all Americans ... oh, wait, sorry. That's in the FBI's mission statement.

... I thought that "Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled" on /. ... leading to

"Ubuntu Now Fits on Your Phone"

... meant that I was going to encounter an actual operating system or some evidence that someone, somewhere, has this working. And by "working," I don't mean has an artist's mockup set up on a demo.

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