dude - you should probably think it through a few more times. actually, your two points contradict each other. i hope you also realize how genetically similar most lifeforms are. yeast that clumps vs yeast that doesn't clump is just maybe a couple of genes. and the WHOLE POINT of natural selection is that the…

there are many good reasons for the US and israel to be allied. in addition to that israel doesn't take if for granted and has a powerful US lobby group called AIPAC, which has a lot of support in all branches of US government. both israel and america know that for decades there have been many foreign governments…

no - taking down the website does nothing to the trading networks. they are predominantly closed circuit systems completely isolated from the internet. one example is the SWIFT network. if you are interested you can look it up.

i wouldn't even take it as certain that the group involved is in fact israeli. it smells a little like an attempt to worsen israeli and saudi (arab in general) relations. at least the perception of them in the public. one idea would be for iran to attack these saudi targets and try to pin the blame on israel. just…

whoa - visceral flashback to 1999.

great read. being that there were thousands of dedicated activists who were jailed or killed for their part in the civil rights movement, who spent at least as many days in jail, suffered at least as many beating, were lynched, dragged and beaten doing their part...maybe you could name 50 of them for me. i know it's…

being martin luther king doesn't make you martin luther king either. no one is as good or as bad as their public image paints them to be. if someone is famous enough for you to know their name, your idea of them is an oversimplification. period.

kamikaze uav drones?

yes, but will it get you laid in prison? probably not.

ha nice

i don't have twitter to do it directly, so i'll have to heckle him here. "murdoch, you can suck my hairy grundle you old greedy geezer."

i doubt the keyboard will be going away for a long time. it's more the cursor that i think will disappear first. or at least its prominence in working with computers will be significantly reduced. it seems strange to push around an object in order to move around an electronic facsimile of a finger on the screen. …

well my guess is that the tech would continue improving at home at first, where people would need to be careful not to speak at the same time, or the machine would say something like 'not understood'. that's the way siri works and the way the voice commands in my car already work. i say "phone dial home" and it…

looks like something from the film "Pi"

yeah - it's certainly not ready for prime time (see, Siri) but give the tech 20 years and i doubt people will still be sitting in silence tapping away. the revolution in the last 20 years has taken us from monochrome terminals to storing hundreds of albums and films and communicating in real time all over the world. …

do you live in a hole or a boat?

no - you really don't. this looks an approximation of one of those laser-eye-surgery-gone-bad nightmares.

time to put eric schmidt back in charge

what if you don't need to move something 'on-screen'? the combination of voice-recognition and touch, along with a redesigned interface relying more on structured navigation and modal applications wouldn't require any cursor tracking at all, except for something like freehand drawing or CAD or similar. but it's…

using macs to run windows in vm is actually a common practice in security/computer forensic firms...so the reasoning behind having them is understandable. much easier to kill a vm image than re-ghost an entire machine. in the case of the imacs, the lcd is replaceable, but doing so voids the warranty. ifixit…