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"SL5 until 2021" really means "bugfixes and security updates only," of course. The future of the technology is stagnation.

5% would mean that for every 20 pages viewed on the Internet, advertising is leading someone to make a purchase. I can't imagine that ever happening no matter how fantastic the ads…

But this is exactly his point. Only in mobile devices is 3 years considered old to the point of irrelevance, and Android is far worse, closer to 3 months. It can be justified on te…

A general system expansion slot would make a lot more sense. Think the RAM expansion on the N64. It'd be silly for each new game to have to provide its own extra processors or RAM …

The dude thinks neutron stars and black holes are unfindable pseudoscience. You could legitimately claim that there are better ways to interpret the evidence for those phenomena, b…

Well of course it's the best selling phone. Apple bets the entire platform on a single phone; Android has a panoply of options competing against each other. If the iPhone were bein…

Oh, I see. That would be interesting if it were possible. I'm not sure how you would manage it, though. Scientists already have an implicit incentive not to throw their careers awa…

The fundamental point underlying science and basic research is that it's generally not possible to know the value of knowledge before you, well, know it. Your perspective is extrem…

You're basically paraphrasing the doctrine of mutual assured destruction.

"A good historian will use the fact that he can't divorce himself from his own viewpoint as a reminder to be extremely cautious. A bad one will use it as an excuse to indulge his p…

The point is that there are wonderful parts of life other than cottages on lakes, and while you're working harder for those 10 years you are to some extent missing out on those par…

Physics is so unbearably sexy. It's a cave and an office and a research facility and they're shooting signal beams of particles through the earth with giant tunnels bored through t…

To me it sounds incredibly petulant and defensive, especially considering that it basically contradicts the "always connected" header which it's footnoting. ~Always connected! ~PS …

I don't know how you reconcile your opinion with our obvious and painful dependency on oil and all the conflict that results. Do you really think that matters "very little"? Where …

"Raw resources are no longer the main basis for our economy" It's fashionable to talk about information- and service-based economies, but that's not evolving beyond raw resources; …

I suspect that much of the trouble with this is twofold; a) 'very rare cases' has this habit of becoming commonplace in practice, and b) who other than the accused could reasonably…

You have to keep in mind that "nanotechnology" as a concept is not that useful in outlining applications and how they're engineered. You could equally well define refrigerators, wh…

This is huge. Maybe their implementation will take off and maybe it won't, but either way this is a tacit admission by the WSJ that the WikiLeaks model will be a serious part of wh…

These are wonderful and thank you for showing them. The images speak more powerfully than simply saying "yeah LSD helped me out."