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It might have been one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Guard-Dog-Security-Phone-Volts/dp/B003XI5RYK

$100, you say?

Screw all that. Do what I did:

1. Download XBMC and install it on your desktop computer. Play around with the plugins and add the repository for the repository installer plugin.

2. Download via XBMC the plugins for Free Cable, Hulu, You Tube, and whatever other video plugins look good. From the previous step you shouldn't have to add any repositories on via their websites, you can do it via the repository installer plugin.

3. Once you get things working fine on the previous step, get a nettop PC to put by your TV and use a remote control to control (this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041ULKW2/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 is great as it comes with a remote and built in IR receiver and can turn itself on via the remote as well.)

4. Cut out the Video part of your cable bill and just get a reasonable download speed on your internet (the cheapest level is probably enough).

Hopefully at this point you'll be able to control XBMC via the remote control and never have to touch the nettop computer again.

Mixed with DMSO it will enter blood stream through the skin quite fast and efficiently.

Anything mixed with DMSO can then be transported through the skin, many poisoners used to use DMSO mixed with their favorite poison such as arsenic, strychnine, and such then lace a letter you perhaps write to your target, let the letter dry then with gloved hands place it carefully into envelope and mail to target.

DMSO was to be banned after a few poisonings but it was just removed from the public's eye, it used to be sold by itself on shelves for arthritis, but they made it a little harder to find.

It's still over the counter and easy to get, DMSO is now sold to farmers and veterinarians and is used for horses a lot and also used to mix with medicine and rubbed into animal with gloved hands of course so the DMSO will transport the drug into the blood stream via skin contact.

You can also buy DMSO on amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/DMSO-Liquid-Concentrate-99-9%25-Pure/dp/B001L538IY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368202258&sr=8-2&keywords=DMSO

DMSO by itself is not harmful, it just makes anything you mix with it able to penetrate skin and enter blood stream. You mix nicotine with DMSO in high concentrate and your nicotine poison will work pretty fast. Just wear gloves or you wind up screwing yourself over.

DMSO poisoning is also a famous echelon keyword supposedly
 

Why fuck around when you can buy a copy of the United States Army technical manual on improvised munitions?
http://www.amazon.com/Improvised-Munitions-Handbook-Department-Technical/dp/B001O84GWK

Actually, with the right guide it's pretty darn easy. I've done it, and the results were quite impressive - about as good as modern black powder. Extremely tedious and time consuming, but a good skill/knowledge to have!

Nah, just go hit Amazon and you'll find that with a couple of files, a drill, a hammer, and a jigsaw you can make your very own 9mm submachine gun. With parts you can procure at your neighborhood Home Depot.

They have been saying this since the 60s, yet people still seem to be writing code. What seems to happen is, byt the time a computer catches up with a major development pattern, developers are already off to the next pattern of development.

I mean, an operating system basically does what we would have called programming 40 years ago, writing instructions to the processor, calculations, etc. The nature of programming has changed since then, as it will over the next 40 years. I could see there being an application that models relevant data, builds interfaces, and maybe even makes them look nice. But I doubt that will be the way we interact with computers by the time they can do it.

http://www.amazon.com/What-Computers-Still-Cant-Artificial/dp/0262540673

This book is one of the first, best discussions about the major challenges that AIs face. The articles about ambiguity tolerance really tell you all you need to know to understand this point. While AIs are pretty awesome at this point, they really do rely on clustering algorithms and normative pattern analysis to construct the facts they operate on. It's useful as a means of understanding the world, but it's not really the same as what most people would call 'judgement' and it's certainly not the way people work in the world.

I have a theory about why AI will never replace coders. Once a machine gets to the point where it can handle the tasks of a coder, it becomes commonplace. People strive for more, technology is necessarily an innovation market. Eventually something new comes along, it takes decades to come to grips with it. During that time, people are the ones working out what's useful and interesting.

In other words, it's all a cycle, and machines are constantly catching up by automating what we did before. They never lead, which is why we have coders.

Go up one level to "Computers and Accessories". You'll see the Samsung Chromebook at 11 behind an iPad screen protector, a cheap HDMI cable, and the chart topping Apple TV. The Amazon best sellers list is indiciatve of what's selling on Amazon. Not much else.

.... is now free of information on building a gun.

http://www.amazon.com/Homemade-Guns-And-Ammo/dp/158160677X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368132669

Oh hey

Mao and Stalin did more damage

If you actually read Solzhenitsyn you'll learn that Communist terror began with Lenin. Solzhenitsyn mocks Western apologists that claim Stalin was an aberration; he details the history behind the deliberate Bolshevik terror, instigated by Lenin.

Stalin was a symptom of statist tyranny. Stalin will emerge any time hate filled statists can get away with violence.

Most liberals hated Stalin

I'm sure you'd like that to be the history, just as Stalin tried to write his own history, but it's not true. Stalin enjoyed the favor of the left, Western statists and the media throughout his reign. He lost some support with Molotov–Ribbentrop, but only because Hitler wasn't a commie. By then (1939) the Soviets has already liquidated millions in the Gulag, executed hundreds of thousands in the Terror and perpetrated the Holodomor, the second deliberate starvation-genocide of the Soviet era, and very publicly to took a giant dump on the whole notion of civilization with the Moscow show trials, cited endlessly by lefties of the day as evidence of the capitalist conspiracy.

But we need not reach back three quarters of a century to find Stalin's apologists and admirers. They are alive and well, publishing in the (implicitly) leftist US academy today.

There need to be t-shirts printed with this picture of Che instead of the typical one used.

Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him

Lefties will tell you Solzhenitsyn is just an anti-stalinist whinger that exaggerates the number killed and must be dismissed by any fair minded person.

If the goal is to pass the Turing Test, that is one thing. But clearly they are trying for something more general in some of their contests. I'm just informing them (assuming they are watching) that better tests are available.

er, youre saying that the iPad mini is $398 with the keyboard. WHY am i not comparing it to a $380 laptop again?

If I have to stick in the $200 range, Im gonna get a chromebook, which has about the same functionality as an iPad, and a lot more oomph. Its also cheaper, has a bigger screen, and a far superior keyboard.

iPads have their place, but dont try to claim that theyre faster / cheaper than a laptop.

Yup. The most heavy-handed instance of this is in Shadow Puppets, in which Card devotes an entire chapter to having Anton, a scientist who is implied to be a repressed gay man, lecture Bean on the merits of marriage between a man and a woman.

Don't take my word for it, read the excerpt...

The most fascinating part of this, for me, is that I connected with Ender's Game more easily as a young adolescent precisely because I was gay and understood how harsh and how quickly a child has to grow up. I also understood empathizing with my enemy, my enemy not understanding the degree of harm he was doing to me, and not trusting adults or authorities. I also keenly felt the idea of being tested in subtle ways, in manipulating adults and politics with their own fears, and deeply appreciated the affects of demagoguery before I even knew what it was called. I felt like Orson Scott Card so deeply understood the plight of being a bright, homosexual child with more self-awareness and introspection than many an adult, that I was shocked to find out that he was so antagonistic to it. This was after I read Speaker of the Dead which seems to so perfectly capture that sensation of oppression.

I had exactly the same experience, and so his gradual devolution is all the more shocking. I read Treason and was struck by how sensitively he captured the deep friendship between Lanik and Helmut; it's almost impossible to reconcile with his truly vehement anti-gay statements. There's a good article in Salon that goes into a bit more depth.

Bottom line, I'm really torn about the movie; I loved the book, but the idea that I would contribute one more penny to this guy really rubs me the wrong way.

They mention that you will be able to buy a pre-paid cards. Think World of Warcraft. I see them listed on Amazon already, like this one $150 for three months: http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Creative-Membership-Pre-Paid-Product/dp/B007W76ZLW/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1367956834&sr=8-8&keywords=pre-paid+cards

This, because all I really want is an empty place to mount my iPad in the dash where some cars have their nav/climate control/etc. displays. I'd rather throw that expensive and utterly useless crap out and just plug in an iPad. In fact I'd actually buy an iPad if I could do that.

It sounds appealing but I'm not sure you've really thought it through. The interface on an iPad is not designed with driving in mind. Your attention needs to be mostly on the road and the iPad interface is not designed to accommodate that fact. Using an iPad while driving would take a rather significant redesign of the interface. I don't even want to think about all the idiots who would try to email or text on it while driving.

There also are driving conditions (glare, temperature, brightness, vibration, etc) to consider which are different in a car than on your couch. IPads are designed to operate between 0C and 35C (32F and 95F) and cars experience both hotter and colder temperatures than this regularly.

Bonus points if they would work with Apple and add some USB devices such that the iPad could monitor some aspects of the car (speed, fuel level, climate control, etc.)

You can already do this via the OBD-II ports.

The worst part of this kind of scientific research is all the quacks who'll use it to make a quick buck, and possibly even do some harm along the way. Reminds me of a recent M. Curie special and all the products they put Radium in after the discovery, and how little things have changed in the rush to capitalize on anything "discovered".

For some odd reason (probably since I only signed up to watch the new pilots and had no history) recently Amazon "recommended" that I buy a diet book called How to Heal your Pineal Gland to facilitate Enlightenment optimize Melatonin and Live Longer which claims to do everything imaginable and quite a few things that are impossible for you or your health. Just reading the description out loud had my M.D. girl and myself rolling in laughter, with one amazing claim after another... enjoy.

In this book nutritionist Joel Blanchard cheerfully offers information and tools designed specifically to help us create a reality of health, happiness and enlightenment for ourselves. He alerts us to the fact that our pineal glands have almost certainly become damaged by environmental conditions on this industrialized planet. Your pineal gland is responsible for making the majority of your melatonin, which is much more than just a neurohormone or sleep aid. According to the studies cited in this book, the melatonin molecule, which is found in every plant and animal on this planet, may very well be the most powerful cell-protecting molecule in existence. Unlike normal hormones, melatonin is welcome inside every cell of your body, where some scientists believe that it communicates with and protects your DNA. Research studies have demonstrated that melatonin can help keep your cardiovascular system healthy, help protect your cells and organs from damage, help to prevent macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma, help to increase HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels, dramatically increase your body’s ability to make antibodies, help people lose weight and lower elevated blood sugar levels, help counteract many, if not all, forms of cancer and ultimately may determine how long you are going to live! In addition to all of these profound health benefits of optimal melatonin levels, Joel discusses your pineal gland’s role in perception, intuition, self-mastery, and insight. There are reasons why Rene Descartes stated "In man, soul and body touch each other only at a single point, the pineal gland in the head." This gland is considered by many spiritual practitioners, philosophers, cultures, religions and researchers to be either the center of your “third eye” chakra or an information receiver, or both. Joel explains how to restore the health of this gland and get your melatonin levels to where you want them to be, and relates some of the amazing experiences he had after he got his pineal gland functioning properly again. These experiences ranged from being able to “receive” the contents of an email message without using any electronic device to resuming a conversation with an off-world being that he had not been able to speak with, while awake, for 13 years. Joel also discusses the role cannabis (marijuana) and dimethyltryptamine (DMT) can play in creativity, melatonin production and personal epiphanies. Are you ready to turn your pineal gland back on and start receiving the kind of creativity and body energy you had as a child, before your pineal gland became calcified? Are you ready to use your built-in Enlightenment App?

Even bad science can be good science.

Bad science can still tell others what happens in a experiment. Even a negative outcome can still shed light.

Look at chemotherapy. If invented before it was used for cancer treatment people would have mocked them for creating something that only harmed the human body and did nothing beneficial. Now it still has negative effects on the human body but it also can save a life by burning out cancer. Its not perfect but its a step in the right direction.

Very little in medicine has ever started out perfect.

In this book nutritionist Joel Blanchard cheerfully offers information and tools designed specifically to help us create a reality of health, happiness and enlightenment for ourselves. He alerts us to the fact that our pineal glands have almost certainly become damaged by environmental conditions on this industrialized planet. Your pineal gland is responsible for making the majority of your melatonin, which is much more than just a neurohormone or sleep aid. According to the studies cited in this book, the melatonin molecule, which is found in every plant and animal on this planet, may very well be the most powerful cell-protecting molecule in existence. Unlike normal hormones, melatonin is welcome inside every cell of your body, where some scientists believe that it communicates with and protects your DNA. Research studies have demonstrated that melatonin can help keep your cardiovascular system healthy, help protect your cells and organs from damage, help to prevent macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma, help to increase HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels, dramatically increase your body’s ability to make antibodies, help people lose weight and lower elevated blood sugar levels, help counteract many, if not all, forms of cancer and ultimately may determine how long you are going to live! In addition to all of these profound health benefits of optimal melatonin levels, Joel discusses your pineal gland’s role in perception, intuition, self-mastery, and insight. There are reasons why Rene Descartes stated "In man, soul and body touch each other only at a single point, the pineal gland in the head." This gland is considered by many spiritual practitioners, philosophers, cultures, religions and researchers to be either the center of your “third eye” chakra or an information receiver, or both. Joel explains how to restore the health of this gland and get your melatonin levels to where you want them to be, and relates some of the amazing experiences he had after he got his pineal gland functioning properly again. These experiences ranged from being able to “receive” the contents of an email message without using any electronic device to resuming a conversation with an off-world being that he had not been able to speak with, while awake, for 13 years. Joel also discusses the role cannabis (marijuana) and dimethyltryptamine (DMT) can play in creativity, melatonin production and personal epiphanies. Are you ready to turn your pineal gland back on and start receiving the kind of creativity and body energy you had as a child, before your pineal gland became calcified? Are you ready to use your built-in Enlightenment App?

More than storage capacity, they need software and/or manpower to analyze everything.

You're discounting the Three Felonies a Day strategy. If you want to target somebody in the future (because he's become inconvenient, or you want him to roll on his associates, etc.) then it's very useful to have several years of his history to sift through, when it becomes necessary.

There's no need to analyze his data until that time.

Ammunition is quite easy:

  - bullets can be cast from lead http://www.amazon.com/Cast-Bullets-E-H-Harrison/dp/B0007ASOHO
  - primer can be strike anywhere matches carefully ground up, or fashioned from chemicals http://cryptome.info/0001/tm-31-210.htm
  - gunpowder is simple chemistry http://www.amazon.com/Do-Yourself-Gunpowder-Cookbook/dp/0873646754
  - cases can be turned on a lathe (granted they're not as malleable as those which are formed, but they'll last for a couple of firings) http://www.janellestudio.com/metal/turning_brass.txt

and of course, doing a muzzle loader eliminates the need for that, just need a patch

William

Ammunition is quite easy:

  - bullets can be cast from lead http://www.amazon.com/Cast-Bullets-E-H-Harrison/dp/B0007ASOHO
  - primer can be strike anywhere matches carefully ground up, or fashioned from chemicals http://cryptome.info/0001/tm-31-210.htm
  - gunpowder is simple chemistry http://www.amazon.com/Do-Yourself-Gunpowder-Cookbook/dp/0873646754
  - cases can be turned on a lathe (granted they're not as malleable as those which are formed, but they'll last for a couple of firings) http://www.janellestudio.com/metal/turning_brass.txt

and of course, doing a muzzle loader eliminates the need for that, just need a patch

William

The performance analysis tools for PostgreSQL are still rough, but they're coming out stronger now than ever before. The old slow query profiling approach is based on database log files, and the pgbadger tool has gotten a lot of improvements in the last year to take the lead in that area. Some web app providers have added PostgreSQL data collection and visualization to the products recently, Datadog is a good example, they even run Postgres internally.

Last year's PostgreSQL 9.2 added a built-in query profiling feature via an improved pg_stat_statements module. That makes it relatively easy to see what queries are taking up time on the server, in a way that matches similar statements based on underlying their query plan. I wrote a sort of call to arms to suggest how the next generation of analysis tools can leverage that in Beyond Query Logging.

You are correct that no one has really grabbed ahold of this area and put together a really easy to use tool set around it. All of the hard to construct pieces needed are in place now, and my list of goals for this year's 9.3 development includes pushing the tuning methodology outlined in my High Performance PostgreSQL 9.0 book into some reference tool implementations. The idea that this is a "black art" is coming from consultants who want you to be intimidated. People who want to understand how things work can read my book, and then wander out to confidently build terabyte size databases. I talk with new people who have done just that every week now.

From art of the start by guy kawasaki: 10 slides, 20 minutes, 30 point font. If you haven't read the book, you should, it's an easy read.

When I had an alarm system connected in my previous residence, the saleswoman from the alarm company told me that the number one black market item in a home for a burglar to obtain is a gun. Highest street value. Making guns rarer means fewer gun deaths, period, there's no uncertainty there or bullshit answers about how criminals will always have guns. That includes accidental shootings and thefts and subsequent use of the stolen guns to kill people. To use the analogy from further up the thread, if every home had heroine there would be more heroine addicts, guaranteed.

But conservatives/libertarians/etc. are not motivated by rationality nearly as well as fear (evidence here for evidence), so unfortunately they will not accept any rational arguments the way liberals expect them to.

That has me thinking maybe a drag stabilized .22 cal projectile would be good for this. Have it be a sabot round and you could get a bit more power with an increased bore and lower chamber pressures and it might actually be usable.

I prefer my tactical man purse http://www.amazon.com/UTG-Multi-Functional-Tactical-Messenger-Black/dp/B002BJBIRW

EA makes every day "Fuck You, You're Going To Buy Our Games Anyway" Day.

Exhibit A:

Best Sellers in PC-compatible Games

We begin with the Slashdot tradition of promoting an event on the day of the event.

There are four events scheduled, one in Bangladesh.

The FOSS Bangladesh are suspending their website (www.fossbd.org) with an image banner, focusing the Day Against DRM-2013 and its cruel effects on IT world, activated from today, 30 April, 2013. Join us on a roadside stands as a Human ties with banners, plackerds and festoons in front of the TSC area at "Raju Circle". As it to exposes the Day Aganists DRM and why we are against DRM and DRM on HTML5.

Day Against DRM - May 3rd, 2013

You cannot make this stuff up.

There will be the inevitable petitions to the W3C and handouts outside the Microsoft Store in Seattle and that is pretty much it.

I was pleased to discover that the EFF page for the International Day Against DRM links to 2009's Windows7 Sins. campaign.

Who can forget --- Windows 7 Sins --- The Video?

"sensitive U.S. army database" is a database where users are emailed their username and password in cleartext

The term you're looking for is "Sensitive But Unclassified."

It is one of the issues mentioned in this classic: The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

Defining ‘sensitive but unclassified' surprisingly complex

None of the big players except Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's Azure:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/07/25/security-privacy-amp-compliance-update-microsoft-offers-customers-and-partners-a-hipaa-business-associate-agreement-baa-for-windows-azure.aspx

http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/09/amazon-cloud-earns-fisma-government-security-accreditation/

Thank you. I was aware that they were in technical compliance, but I was not aware that Azure had started offering the business associate agreement. The link below seems to indicate that AWS is still "looking into" the matter, but I haven't found anything conclusive that says they will offer it. Needless to say, I'm starting a project immediately to begin an Azure deployment for my organization.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=444933

They're still being manufactured and new models continue to be introduced. The manufacturers are subtly changing the marketing though, but I'm not sure what you call a $300 10" laptop other than a Netbook.

http://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Reaction-Reloaded-Shocking-Game/dp/B0006B2Q50

Just read http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Cinema-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765329093

There isn't really much more to say about it...

Executive summary: allowing this is a really bad idea because it sets a legal precedent.

How about using a direct ethanol fuel cell and an ample fuel supply?

They kept the 200 billion we gave them

Are you sure it's 200 billion? The author you cite seems to have thought it was $30 billion. Wait, no, it was $200 billion. Ah, sorry, now it's $300 billion. Maybe it's inflation?

Not saying that the American public wasn't shortchanged by the Baby Bells - back in the day when they actually existed, I never encountered a more anticompetitive group of oligarchists in all my career. But let's not necessarily keep repeating this "OMG telcos stole $200 billion" meme without a little more quantification and justification.

OK, so I think I am in BIOS upgrade-ville, because Atheros cards don't work with the old BIOS that I have. Is this the card you are using?
http://www.amazon.com/Atheros-AR5B95-AR9285-802-11B-PCI-E/dp/B005HMZ8B2
-tnx

The question of whether anti-matter experiences anti-gravity goes back as far as I can personally remember (1970's) and probably some decades before that.

For most of the past 300 years in physics, experiment has led theory. We measure something, it leads to a theory, and then experiments are done to check the theory. Examples abound of theories that explain previous observations, and also predict something new - probably the most famous is relativity predicting the precession of Mars, but there are lots of others. (Newton predicting elliptical orbits based on the inverse square law of gravity comes to mind.)

Since about 1970 the situation is reversed - theory has led experiment. We have a satchel of theories which attempt to explain questions in physics which have no discriminatory evidence. Theories such as "Super Symmetry", "Loop Quantum Gravity", and "String Theory". I'm reading a book right now which claims 10^500 different string theories (yes, that's 10 with 500 zeroes after it), and lamenting the fact that few of these actually make testable predictions.

Relativity predicts that anti-matter should have positive gravity, but this has never been tested.

Until recently, the only antimatter we had access to has been charged particles: anti-protons and anti-electrons. Measuring the gravitational force on a charged particle is nigh impossible because the EM force is so large (relative to the gravitational force) that any EM effects swamp the readings. You can't just see if the particle falls in the container, because it's essentially impossible to shield a container well enough. It's like trying to measure the mass of a cork floating in a tornado.

Anti-hydrogen would work, but until recently we had none to test. Antiparticles tend to have high velocities when produced - they have to escape their anti-nemesis which is also produced - so they have to be slowed down enough to "pair" to make the neutral antimatter particle.

The vacuum used for the experiments has a big effect also. Depending on the level of vacuum used, any particle has a "mean free path" before it will impinge on another particle. You have to get your anti-particles to slow down, form antimatter, and conduct the experiment before another particle comes in and annihilates it. This requires insanely good vacuum which is both hard to achieve and highly expensive.

The ALPHA experiment at CERN now produces antimatter, so the referenced paper asks the question: what is the ratio "F" between the inertial mass and the gravitational mass of antihydrogen? For normal matter it's 1 and for "antigravity matter" it would be -1.

The paper reports that they have measurements within specific confidence levels that F < 110 almost certainly, and F < 75 at the 95% confidence level.

If the experiments outlined in the paper are continued (and perhaps refined), over time they can statistically narrow the results and ultimately settle the question by experiment.

I think that this would be a good thing, it would confirm (or contradict) by experiment something that is predicted by theory.

ok I just checked - it costs $50 in the US according to amazon. Amazing value!

Do they make new routers that can maintain a stable connection for under $100?

Yes - TP-LINK do. Currently $50 at amazon.

I'd never heard of them until getting this model a while back. Plus it looks like something designed by the people responsible for Knight Rider (I like it, but apparently routers are also fashion accessories nowadays), but it's a really good unit.

At the time of Apollo, the program was consuming half the IC manufacturing capacity of the entire world. The ships were essentially all one-off constructions built by hand. Go read How Apollo Flew to the Moon. Yes, the physics of it were understood. Yes, as experience showed, we had all the technological pieces to make it happen, in much the same way that we almost certainly could conduct a manned mission to Mars if we really wanted to. But doing so required an enormous amount of blood and treasure.

Why should they be retired just because they are "ancient". They are still perfect serviceable, and still perfectly available. They also have a reputation for being more reliable and longer lasting, hardware-wise, than the consumer crap they chrun out nowadays.

I don't know, 11 year old routers might be pretty uncommon.

You can buy a wrt-54gl (the model with the original, larger, flash and ram) new from Amazon, today. Your netgear model is double the price.

Amazon is still selling them new for $50/each

That's a joke, not something that actually happened.

It is apparently from a book called "Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History".

Blurb reads: "Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy."

So it is likely a true record of the exchange.

Also because the brain is removed during the autopsy, so it doesn't even make any sense.

As someone else posted, there are many reasons the brain can arrive separate to the body in an autopsy, so that part at least does make sense.

We are all going to work in MMORPGs as NPCs.

Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram.

A small book and a very good read that enlightened me on the human nature of how mean we can be when someone else puts us up to it.

Uhu. So how much bleach and ammonia do you need to make a bomb?

RTFM

Dying?? WTF, go read their revenue GROWTH and profit GROWTH for the last quarter before you say moronic things. To be dying their growth would have to at least be stagnant, preferably decreasing, hint IT ISN'T. So far android laptops have failed, the chromebooks have sold less than the disaster that was surface tablets.

IBM doesn't sell many computers either. ;). Microsoft has had revenue growth despite three quarter of dropping windows computer sales, on the back of raised priced in server live, an EOL console live subscriptions, making more monet from online office...instead of offline office....hold the bus three quarters of dropping sales.

Interestingly if we look at Amazon...the largest online retailer. http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/565108/ref=sr_bs_1 A chromebook is *still* the bestselling laptop....I couldn't see the surface in the top 100!?