@HallaEks: IIRC Max Brooks' zombies didn't decompose due to the chemical/virus either killing or repelling the bacteria responsible for breaking the body down.

@lauwersp: Well, if Zune has 2% of the overall PMP market (unsourced, but others have given that number). Q1 2010 Macs sold in the US appear to be at 1.75 million, so say 7 million per year. That means a potential Mac/Zune customer base of 140,000 people.

@gstatty: I always liked Frank Herbert's version better, "Power attracts the corruptible."

@seriously, saycarramrod: oh I got the joke =) That's what I said when I first saw that commercial when the Dumb Guy (tm) couldn't give an answer.

@seriously, saycarramrod: it's been linked to diabetes, eating disorders, and cancer?

@sniglet: and if you put cane sugar in everything from bread to hot dogs to sports drinks, you'll have the same issues and complaints.

it should be noted that Millennium did have something of a post-series epiloge in one of the X-Files episodes. Frank is in a mental hospital and has to help Scully and Mulder stop the Millennium Group from becoming zombies and causing the apocalypse, or something...

@thebluepill: they would do a specroscopic analysis. Each element radiates at its own wavelength, making it/them easy to identify.

@Adam Bath: it has an HD radio and can output HD video.

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I'm confused, I thought airlines had trouble getting people booked for flights (record losses, bailouts, and layoffs), yet they keep trying to cram more people into already clostrophobic tubes?

@FuzzyHorror: you all have some good points that I didn't consider when I wrote this (which is probably a good reason i'm not a lawyer). It seems like the main issue is who owns the phone GPS data. When I wrote this comment, I felt that the telco owns the data, but in lieu of @songs wiretapping point, I'm not sure I…

@kafka666: Your medical records are your property though, not your doctor's or insurance company's.

@fasst27: true, but I was trying to think of ways to protest without molotov cocktails ^^

@songs: hm, you do have a point. I want to say it still comes down to who ultimately owns the information. When you get phone service do you take ownership of the electrical/digital signal from the phone company? I would say yes, except I'm biased towards not wanting my phones under constant surveilance. Or maybe from…

Just from reading this article, I would ask the question, "who owns the data?"

@ManicPixieNightmare: an old joke copy-pasted for the amusement of all:

Since the quasars we're looking at were probably formed a mere billion years after the big bang, is it really that surprising that things might have changed a smidge? Physical properties change for all substances as they lose energy, why wouldn't space/time follow the same pattern?

@Shinobiii: I paid for the collectors edition, so I've got less of a reason to complain than others, but I played the 20 hours to beat it then I... reloaded the original game. The original just had a spark that made me want to play it again. The sequel, I may force myself to go through a 2nd play through, but I kind…

@Thrubeingcool: when I said it looks like I'm in the minority, I was thinking specifically of the gizmodo discussions, where 60 or 70 percent just didn't seem to care whether the govt tracked them or not (if you're not guilty then why worry). There should be a balance of liberty/freedom vs. security/safety. But this…