There used to be a time when the press acted as investigative journalists, and worked with whistleblowers to expose political corruption and hold politicians accountable for their actions (think Watergate). This was lauded as necessary for the function of the country. Now, this function has been outsourced to the FSB, and the corruption they reveal is denigrated as "interfering with the sanctity of the electoral process". How about the press goes back to being watch dogs instead of lap dogs, shake off the "Democrats with bylines" label,expose the corruption themselves, and undermine the FSB?

As managed care gets more and more expensive, expect to see more and more articles like this, convincing people not to bother with wellness treatments and just die. It saves money. Soon we'll be back to the life expectancy of a Third-World country, in the lower 60's.

As an android fan, I am actually impressed by Siri. Siri puts a dummy-friendly face on Android voice search. Plus, it has some serious back-end tech chops. Finally, how can you not love its snappy answers to stupid requests like "open the pod bay doors"?

Back in 1976, Jobs and Woz made their own computers. Today, the iStuff is made in China- nothing is manufactured in America anymore. A lot of Furthermore, technology and globalization has made many other jobs obsolete. We need less secretaries, lawyers, accountants, etc. The resulting drop in employment means government can't continue expanding at union-friendly paces, and government workers are forced to be laid off or give back gains. Years ago, people predicted the 3-hour workday from all the technology . Instead, a lucky few work full-time and the rest are unemployed. This is progress. The singularity is coming because we can't afford to be humans anymore. It's much cheaper to exist in an online-only version.

How will the human race ever evolve to the next unless we expose people to mutation-causing radiation?

The cloud can't replace local storage. A 10mbps cable line is no match for an internal sata drive. And google desktop search is much faster than windows search, and is much better at finding emails than outlook's own search. I have come to rely on this at work, and am loathe to install windows search instead. I would love to see this become open-source.

Desktop innovation is dead. The only active innovation is on handheld devices, and linux (in the form of Android OS) is quickly becoming the biggest game in town. If you count handhelds and Android OS, linux would have a much higher user percentage.

...and won't be the last. "Confectioners' glaze" (common candy coating) sounds so much better than "lac bug secretion". "Gelatin" sounds so much better than "pig skin extract". "Carmine" (used for red coloring) sounds better than "cochineal insect secretion".

I did this on a Verizon Droid using a spoof app, to a Verizon number. Not on purpose- i was trying to goof on a friend by having his phone ring with his own number. Then i got the voicemail prompt, and i hung up.

does this mean we will need to bail them out as well?