Perfect timing. I just turned fifty, and as my memory degrades in the coming years Google will obviate the need for remembering things.

My reaction exactly. I am pretty sure every cage at these facilities is separately metered, since electricity costs are a substantial cost of running a data center, so Google is paying the bill for the lights in its cages. When you have an electricity bill the size of Google's you hire people to figure out how to…

Not an expert, but my impression is that they are just pure neutrons, no atoms present, so I suspect our concepts of liquid/solid/gas, which are all based on the behavior of atoms at different temps and pressures, just don't apply.

I think one reason that techie types underestimate the iPad, and Apple in general, is that Apple is making computers that are meant to appeal to, and be useful for, non-techies. The techies were happy with desktops and laptops and Windows/Linux/Mac OS X (which are really not that different from a non-techie…

When you think about it, your thesis is pretty radical: That a company has managed to become the most valuable company on earth, and to sell tens of millions of an expensive product, by somehow mysteriously manipulating consumers into buying their product as a status symbol even though the consumers do not actually…

For me a tablet is the best way ever to read a book. I read history and non-fiction and love being able to look at a map or picture of the place being discussed, or a picture of a person who is mentioned, or read a wikipedia article about something mentioned in passing.

What, you don't think the Job Creators deserve to live forever?

"You can't think straight at 28000 feet and might choose to go for the summit when you shouldn't."

According to Wikipedia about 2500 people climbed Everest in the period 2000-2010, and there were 54 fatalities. That works out to be about 2% died.

It is an expensive way to play Russian Roulette

Have you no decency? It's cruel to taunt Romney, Santorum, Gingrich and Paul and their supporters with this scrumptious vision of a nation without labor laws and environmental regulations. It's like describing a feast to a starving man.

I speculate that the only time you have a decent chance of burning a missile with a laser is during the boost phase when it's going relatively slow. When the warhead comes screaming in at Mach 10 I doubt any laser could take it out.

In China hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people continue to work as field laborers well into their 70s and 80s because there is no social security there. Also, in China the first thing you, or your family, does after you are injured in an auto accident is stop at the ATM and withdraw thousands of dollars…

Its gallons per mile on a boat like that.

And you wouldn't be able to see the color of the stars so vividly

Any terrorist with the sophistication necessary to successfully steal a nuke from feds during a transportation is not relying on Gizmodo and Mother Jones for its information.

I love how he strips everything off, but by the time he gets in the store he is thinking "damn, walking on this cold floor barefoot sucks, better grab some socks."

Having followed a car where the driver was eating a bowl of cereal (bowl held in one hand, spoon in the other) I can't wait until automated cars hit the market. Video shot at stop light, but he was eating while he drove.

Those idiots you are afraid of owning an automated car are currently manually operating a car. Think about it. At least with an automated car these idiots would have fewer opportunities to make deadly mistakes.

I would want to take a real hard look at their anti-chaffing setup at the top of the arch. When the person swings the rope(s) have got to sliding over a pretty big stretch of really abrasive sandstone. Unless they have huge carpet stretched over where the rope slides I wouldn't go near it.