Not even illegal in some countries, even if they were torrented.

Ah, thanks. Nice to see the occasional science "burn". :-)

I am Colin Wheeler. I have been following IO9 for years now and enjoying it. I am an Enterprise Architect who lives in Basel, Switzerland and hails originally from South Africa.

Specifically the "Better is better than more." line that is.

Practice is not the answer here. Practice, the 10,000 hours thing, practice alone doesn't produce work that matters. No, that only comes from caring. From caring enough to leap, to bleed for the art, to go out on the ledge, where it's dangerous. When we care enough, we raise the bar, not just for ourselves, but for…

Actually in Europe most of our International connections are by land.

The Barcelona Pavilion was reconstructed. I visited it this year and it was wonderful.

Just a note that WW2 killed around 80 million, not hundreds. Let us not over dramatize as it does not help.

One if the most profitable companies in the world's large Windows 8 tablet user community would disagree with you.

Yes, if you just want to stream media onto your TV and or home entertainment setup, this is cheaper and smaller and more openly compatible.

Except that it is in the U.K. so I very much doubt that the guy will loose anything. If he was not breaking the law, he should be okay. It could be a few or several thousands of pounds of damages if it all goes badly wrong for him.

Population density, family planning, future resource requirements. If science is not thinking of these things, who is? The religions?

I am sure that this intellectual protectionism is seen to be vital for the U.S.A. economy, but I am still not convinced that it fosters or encourages progress for humanity.

I cannot believe there is not one question in this whole set about over population? The candidates will have huge effects on population figures. How can this not be relevant? I guess humanity is still playing ostrich on the real questions.

Here in Switzerland there are quite a few people that opt for solutions such as 50%, 80% or 90% work situations. For instance here, taking a 90% option will reduce your income by 10% but double the annual leave that you receive, making a big difference in how relaxed you are and what you can do on your vacation time.…

I would suggest putting a loud alarm clock in an cake tin which will amplify the noise significantly and then dropping it off at random places each night, like on top of the wardrobe, outside your bedroom door, etc. Getting up and having to find it will wake you up enough and get you moving so as not to go back to…

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I guess the reason for banning has more to do with profiteering on pay per use connections than highly sensitive equipment that most probably uses more "stable" frequencies than Wi-Fi ones.

If a technology existed that would give me the option of having immortality, I would take it up. I don't see how that would stop me at some point in the future terminating my life if I felt it had no more use or desire for it, or perhaps being put in some sort of suspended state until certain conditions are met. I…

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