This is what Toyota learned and implemented in their Georgetown, KY assembly plant over 30 years ago. Every device has a musical piece that it will play when something goes wrong, with some having different songs for different events. You can tell exactly how the plant is operating without even having to look - and there is a LOT going on there in a large space. Beeps would echo.

Have to protect the value of all that (currently) valuable Commercial Real Estate. No workers in the office means no need for large fancy office towers. There's lots at play here, this is just merely the one angle that stands out to me.

Maybe he can get them to stop the confusing mess of which features are enabled and disabled across the lines of chips. I hate having to dig through the Intel Ark to find out which used sku's have ECC memory support, which ones have IOMMU support, which ones have vPro, which ones have AES-NI, etc. Especially galling is the ECC support, as it's enabled and disabled seemingly at random throughout the consumer space (where AMD has it across the board.)

For reference of just how small a punishment this is to Facebook, 645,000 divided by 80 million is 0.0080625. Less than one cent (GBP? Euro?) per affected user.

This is actually really REALLY old technology. Streetcars used this at the dawn of American cities, and I'm somewhat curious if having a dual-use (Streetcar and electric automobile) network could propel a faster switch from IC engines and towards better public transit in one fell swoop. While the idea of trolleys and streetcars using overhead wiring is more common, plenty of US cities used in-road electric rails (most notably Washington DC see links) http://www.rypn.org/forums/vie... https://www.dcpreservation.org...

Seriously. It's amazing. I'm using it on a PIII 1.0 ghz 512 PC133 box that I use as a server. It impressed me so much that I switched from AVG (which was slowing down my Core i5 box) and now don't even notice a scan.
I cannot recommend Bitdefender enough.

The Soviet Union didn't "give up" on anything. They were one of the world's leading powers with all the benefits of such. Then they had Chernobyl explode and immediately suck "9 Billion Rubles" out of their economy. During a major recession. Add to this that the 9 Billion figure flouted by Gorbachev is likely much MUCH smaller than the real cost between 1986 and the fall of the Soviet Union. (We know this, as the true costs today are much higher, even adjusted for inflation.)

From TFA:

Apple illustrated the idea with discussion of a USB port and SD card reader, showing how the card reader and USB port could be integrated, but the port could house other interconnects.

The summary is misleading in so many ways. This is just adding USB to a multi-card reader.

Okay, lets take your example of Supermarkets. Most of them are union. The only major non-union Supermarket in my area is Wal-Mart. Working for a Union outfit, I do have to pay more in union dues. But I make whole hell of a lot more working for a union place than I ever would at Wal-Mart. Everyone I know at Wal Mart is on the edge, barely making ends meet, and on assistance programs, such as Food Stamps, TANF, etc. (California already recognizes the problem here, drafting a new law where by places where workers are encouraged to use Food Stamps to make up their shortfall in pay would be fined $6000. That number is based strictly off of Wal Mart, where each employee on Food Stamps costs CA $5,990 per employee.)

Now tell me again how less regulation and less power to the Unions is a good thing again? We've been there before. Individual citizens are powerless against Grover Cleveland and the U.S. Marshals.

Considering this is Japan, I'm pretty sure they got the idea from Ghost in the Shell. The Major often times references performing a Back Hack, to determine the location of an attacker. Now if only I could teach Windows how to enter Autistic Mode...

Simple, cheaper than buying a new laptop, and easily mounted in cars and trucks. As long as you mount it in a smart manner and remember to lock it, you're golden. http://www.tuffyproducts.com/p-256-182-laptop-computer-security-lockbox.aspx

I'm actually rather disappointed. See, theoretically most Anon members are North American or European. Countries in these particular areas have been really turning a blind eye on anything that isn't Afghanistan, Iraq, or off Sudan's shores. So - presume a drug cartel starts picking off lots of citizens in Hometown U.S.A just because of their I.P. addresses. Even if said people were involved directly or just host to a zombie client, it would instantly make the national news. People would demand answers. Politicians would be forced to act - especially with campaign season coming up. So in effect any mass-scale "meatspace" retaliation against Anon would have set off some serious fireworks.

*Disclaimer - the above is a theoretical thought exercise of cause and potential effect - I am in no way affiliated with either Anonymous or the Zeta Cartel, nor do I support bloodshed or potential new clusterfucks^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h wars.

is a loaded word. If this law is used only against criminal enterprises or other "gangs" of criminals, it'll be fine.

Censorship by the United States Government has already happened once. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918

You clearly did not read the letter from jobs. He does discuss the proprietary nature of iPhone OS. But he also covers why it would be bad for apple users to have middleware design tools become popular -- based on their past experience.

It's also worth noting that you can create amazing, open mobile web apps that work great on iPhones and iPads and many other devices. You can thank apple's open source work on WebKit for a big part of that.

Combined with the performance issues, crashing issues, and lack of a good touch interface for Flash, what argument can really be made in favor of it on mobile devices?

Write it in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS and move on with your life.