yet, nothing of value was gained.

yes, of course. but its painfully obvious what he and people-like-him want/'need'. and that is 'absolute control over every living soul', so they make: TPM DRM Cloud XBOX Scarlett Software-as-a-service and other similar crap.

I agree, "The End of Eternity" is his masterpiece. In my opinion its the best book ever written.

that's because sci-fi writers 'predict' stuff that they (and most of other people) would like to become real. so scientists and inventors work on them. and with enough time and money you get something that resembles the prediction. the writers never give you enough details, so its not a true prediction after all.

yeah but he/she wouldn't be sure of result..

..so little time.. to allow all the sites you wanna see in noscript.

yeah, right. so does Lynx.

notebook computers were always cool.

IANAP (I am not a psychiatrist), but it seems to me you worry too much about it.

you need to upgrade it to paranoid brain first, to be pretty safe. :)

destiny is, by definition, something you cannot change.
btw, my favorite book is Asimovs "The End of Eternity". its simply awesome.

I think biggest curse would be knowing (exactly) ones destiny, if such thing exists.

it is obvious they are referring to one kind of SSD failure that is predictable.
a lightning strike for eg. is quite unpredictable, and it might cause SSD/HDD failure.

I think the biggest issue here is that its much harder to read from eink (let alone LCD) than from paper. That's probably bad for eyes in long run.

yeah, right. remember the autorun fiasco?
the 'creative' solution from 'good guys' was to shut it off.. what a waste of time