@crackel: Eh, MAD theory still applies. No major world power would bomb us while we have our stockpile.

As long as they only suggest and don't automatically tag. The faces feature in iPhoto is pretty good, but far from perfect. I can imagine the hilarity that would ensue.

@Mike Z: It looks kind of inverted to me. I have a professor who does a lot of stereoscopic work, he says that some people almost always see these things inverted.

Well, the brain runs exclusively on glucose (no other source of energy will do), so this would lead me to suspect that most people do not have enough for efficient brain use. They attempt to use caffeine to perk up or concentrate, but they can not push their brain harder without actually adding more fuel.

@grok666: I think they reason that those officers are in the same room looking over the pilots' shoulders. In this way you can have a few officers do the work of many (though I admit you need a bunch of enlisted men to make up the gap, they are easier to get).

@DrakeDatsun: Nope, original game came out a long time ago and came on 5 CDs. It was probably over 3GB. I remember the annoyance of getting things wrong; backtracking sometimes meant reswapping CDs to find the place you were.

@Alicemagic: Why is that? I find it more convenient to look at my wrist than to take out my phone. Besides, then it is much easier to check the time without being noticed in a meeting ;)

@Zerø: Solar and wind are definitely going through growing pains at the moment, but hydro is a pretty mature technology.

@Zerø: Well, in theory a large gas turbine is more efficient than a small internal combustion engine. I don't want to get into discussions over age of equipment or transmission losses, but on some level I think you can count the electric car as a better alternative.

My Kindle is the only common thing that follows me to bed. My phone does when my girlfriend is out of town, but even then only if I expect she might call or text late. Occasionally my laptop, but I try to keep that to a minimum.

@Wade McGillis: Is using an internet search to solve a Google puzzle cheating? I feel like they should respect that kind of solution.

Well, I am disappointed by the data breach, though it does seem to be a common occurrence these days. If banks can lose information, so can blogs.

@third_incursion1: Yeah, I need real computing power for work, but I let work pay for it ;) My personal projects easily fit into the power scale of a midrange laptop from a year ago.

@improprietary: Not necessarily. When dealing with the difference between a bounded and unbounded space there are a lot of hypotheticals at work.

I thought that was an excellent episode. At first I was disappointed that they were veering off the main plot, but the supreme creepiness of the plot for this episode really got me roped in.

@corpore-metal: For some reason that makes my mind hurt... I can't figure out if I want to accept that theory or not, but it sure it interesting.

I have largely begun ignoring specs in recent years. Except for cases where I am intimately familiar with the subject matter, I rely almost entirely on reviews (or my own experience, when I have the luxury of gaining some).

@Rohic: By "this launch" I meant the launch of that cheese. Sorry about the confusion, I see the value in the test launch of the system in general.

@Link2187: It's only useless if you remove the USB ports and disk drives. The enterprising data thief will find a way if it is a software solution. For some reason I find it hard to imagine that they would spend the time and money to neuter every single secure computer.

@Link2187: Would it require more security than just banning all physical media? Either way you need to keep the stuff out, my idea was just to give them an option for once you are in.