I understand the desire to remove buttons, but why oh why the next-page button? When people use an ereader, they use the home button about once or twice; they use the next-page button about 50 to 100 times. If some mysterious force compelled them to include only one button, they picked the wrong one.

If rules were that simple, we wouldn't need lawyers or the supreme court.

I think the reason this is such a big deal to the internet is that the internet loves nothing more than telling people they are wrong. Amazingly, a group of people have announced to the world that they will, on a future date, be proven unambiguously wrong. When has that happened before?

These pilots are pretty amazing as well. At one point, the two helicopters are both spinning around, almost touching, mere feet off of the water. And it's not part of a stunt routine, they're just trying to get some cows to swim faster.

You agree to let Xzibit destroy your crappy car, but you earn enough by selling it to buy a new car. In other words, Xzibit invented an elaborate version of cash for clunkers.

In high school, I had a job for a few weeks on an island. My trip to work required a train, followed by a bigger train, then a truck, followed by a bigger truck, followed by a ferry and then finally, a canoe. It was a small adventure every morning.

I guess what I was trying to say is that there's a lot of assumptions and beliefs hiding behind Mat's bumper sticker statement. It's a true statement if you agree with those assumptions, but it's a stupid statement if you don't. (In other words, it wouldn't make a great bumper sticker.) Hence you thought of murder and…

Sure, if the law (and the enforcement strategy) really has no effect on whether people commit a crime, then it's a useless law. Murder laws really do prevent people from committing murder. Obviously some murders still happen, but fewer than otherwise would if there were no penalty.

A better analogy would be, "Suicide laws are stupid. You can't stop people from committing suicide."

Is this where we post our favorite creepy ads? Because this one is my favorite.

For plausible deniability, you need to use the "hidden volume" option. Such a container has two volumes with two different passwords, one nested inside the other like a Russian doll.

I'm still not understanding your point about not limiting the amount of currency. How much a BitCoin can buy is based on how much currency is in circulation and the amount of goods and services it is competing to buy.

1. The number of BitCoins has a maximum. But that doesn't set a maximum on the number of people who can hold the currency. It might be the case that some people have 0.1BT, and songs cost 0.01BT, so they can afford 10 songs. The actual number of "coins" (providing that number is fixed) is arbitrary and unimportant.

That has nothing to do with currency. Credit default swaps are a form of insurance.

Or you divide into smaller pieces. Since BitCoins are just a number, they could easily slice them a million times. People have never had a problem using ha'pennies or pieces of eight or other fractional units of currency.

This might seem like an absurd idea- and it is- but money is an absurd idea. Weirder systems have worked before. Ultimately, money is just an idea that everyone puts their trust in. Even gold. If we suddenly discovered a mountain made of gold, a currency based upon it would cease to exist overnight. Since it all goes…

Snow days are just about the most wonderful, exciting thing in the world when you are in elementary school. I hope the person responsible for this plan is visited by the Ghost of Snow Days Past and made to see what a wretched person he's become.

Until recently, most local governments had monopoly agreements with cable companies granting them exclusive access to their area. The rational for this was two-fold. First, like public utilities, cable companies needed access to public infrastructure like streets and utility poles to install their equipment, so cities…

Netflix pays for their bandwidth just like everybody else. ISPs use the fees they charge Netflix to upgrade their hardware.

This doesn't distance soldiers from the act of killing anymore than artillery did over 100 years ago, or aerial bombing did during WWII. And anyway, it isn't the soldiers starting the wars, so if we can protect them, the more distance the better.