bikers just need to cut risks:

1) Don't ride in the dark.
2) Don't ride in the middle of the street.
3) Don't go down hills at full speed.
4) Wear a helmet
5) Be careful at intersections

They don't have to be laws. Just what you do to live.

Apple wrote ios for devices with batteries in mind from day one.
It is slowing getting close to OSX, but they have to be careful.

Microsoft chose the "one O/S everywhere" serving needs of desktop
and devices at the same time. This was a naive approach.

"Slashdot accepts lame unverified story that is probably not even relevant in 60 seconds" (even if it were relevant to begin with)

Fleecing morons. If I could do it, I probably would.

North Korea is promising death and destruction. South Korea can't afford to get
it's feathers too ruffled.

You simply have to be right.

http://allaboutfrogs.org/stories/scorpion.html

Give them your old ipad, get $200 credit toward in-store purchase.
I am not sure, however, what people would want more:
my old ipad 1 or $200 at microsoft store.
At least, it *would* make a better Christmas stocking stuffer than
some socks and a toothbrush.

"and expressed regret over his company's inability to capitalize on burgeoning interest in mobile devices"

should read

"and expressed regret over his inability to capitalize on burgeoning interest in mobile devices"

or perhaps even

"and expressed regret over his inability to capitalize on burgeoning interest in anything"

If, at NASDAQ, you create even a moment of downtime,
your ass is chewed, spit out, and handed back to you.

So that they can't be fired for being unresponsive to students.

You never know you ever needed a Rock Star developer
until you find out what they can do for you.

Frequently it boils down to cost. They find a way to do
something with half the resources, or they find a way to double
your throughput with the same resources.

Either way, the bigger the company, the more it means.

For money? sure
For honor? Are you kidding?

Between two individuals:
It seems to me that encryption based on a shared private password
and then encrypted again with public/private key encryption gains you the best
of both worlds.

prohibitive?