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By comparison, the NASA budget is $20 Billion. The cost to give every child in America a free school lunch is $20 Billion. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is requesting less than $8 Billion this year. The entire National Institute of Health (NIH) budget is $31 Billion. The Environment Protection Agency responsible for assuring breathable air & safe water against every corporate interest is asking for less than $9 Billion this year. The U.S. “Smart Grid” industry is worth $21 Billion.

Et cetra.

I was thinking the same thing. A subheading in the article is “Malware for OS X Increasing.” He does a poor job substantiating that claim, IMHO.

I don't want to point fingers at Chicken Little, because I agree with the thesis; Apple needs to be more serious about OS X security.

Another article making the case that money does not buy happiness, in fact, money is some sort of emotional burden.

Perhaps the accumulation of personal weath means nothing if everyone around you suffers.

There seemed to have been a lot of pessimism regarding Apple announcements that seem similar other offerings like Dropbox & Reminder apps.

Marco has the best response.

He’s rightly convinced of the superiority of his product. Apple is chasing him at his own game. When people realize that there’s a whole untapped market for content reading services he’ll definitely stay the upscale, market leader in the field.

There is a certain benefit to tried-and-trusted systems with known strengths and weaknesses.

I'm not advocating lethargy when adopting new technologies, keeping reliable equipment and weaponry is a good thing.

Also, the cost of creating new technologies may not yield significant benefits. E.g. the F-22 is only marginally better (or marginally worse depending on your perspective) than the aircraft it was intended to replace, but at a huge cost.

Slighty deceptive headline. At first I thought it sounded like thus ancient robot was transmitting light to earth.

Not so. It merely has a reflector that bounces earthbound researcher-gnereated laser photons back.

Tangentially, I wonder if Mac users, as malware victims, are bigger buyers. Will a Mac user (typically higher educated and higher paid than an average Windows user) spend more money on average than victims of attacks on other OSs.

I felt similarly. “Why not write a blog post?” I thought.

In America law enforcement can get a court to issue a warrant if they can prove just cause. You could refuse to comply with the warrant, but you'd be jailed.

Besides, I want police using the Internet as an investigative medium. I just want them to get a warrant. The real problem we have these days is when companies roll over for the government and give them whatever data they want without just cause.

This is one of the best-written articles on Mac development I've ever read.

The Commonwealth saddled the MBTA with its transit debt at the onset of the MBTA's current incarnation. It's a poster child for dishonest representation of public expenses.

Hiding mass amounts of state debt in the MBTA (along with effectively losing every negotiation with its union and failing to timely increase fares to market value as compared to other major US cities) has sandbagged public transportation in Massachusetts.

I couldn't agree more.

The MBTA trains leak when they get wet. Every day there are delays due to "signal problems". There's a major crash on the Green Line annually. Getting the basics of electronic billing is about fourth on the list of things that the MBTA needs to address.

Would you please post a link to that report.

The article linked to in this HN post is poorly sourced. I'm hoping to read a credible journalistic article on this subject.

I love this idea. Most of my social connections are based on music tastes.

Are you talking about your experience during the Falluja campaign or working at a retail store?

I love the level of paranoia. The transparent message of these documents is that its possible for The Enemy to exploit everything on your system. "Disable your laptop camera. Disable your computer's audio input."

For the NSA and other top secret uses this makes good sense.

I love the well-informed rant. You have lots of interesting points.

As a person, I'm glad LinkedIn exists as an appropriate place for business connections. I am not always keen on having coworkers as Facebook friends.

LinkedIn does a good job of keeping track of contacts. “Is the freelance lighting designer available? Our intern from two years ago is working on a great project.”

Can LinkedIn do more and do what it does now even better? Certainly. Do I feel their current incarnation fails? Not really.

I don't want LinkedIn to be more pervasive in my life than it is. It's good enough to just "be there" and maybe give a soft email every two weeks.

Also, thanks so much for the kind words! I hope to fond a job soon, but I'm really just excited to be on the West Coast.

I can't remember specific employers, (and if I did, I'm not inclinded to "out" them) but I know job recruitment site TopProspect requires LinkedIn.

As a side-note I recently moved to San Francisco and I'm looking for work as a UI Designer. At a couple interviews there have been printouts of my application, resume, and -- sure enough -- my LinkedIn profile.

Even if you don't think it counts, it shows up when employers Google you. Well, it does it you have an offbeat name like Critz.

Its interesting to see how many employers use LinkedIn as the only way to apply.

How does this idea serve to protect the American people?

You can do a one-on-one chat between Macs on iChat and PCs running AIM, but you cannot do a three-way chat.

Only on macs and only on the Desktop.

Its useless until it's critical.

It's been many years since we've had a new Mac chassis. I'd love to see Apple apply some of their touch screen technology to the Mac line.

I like the idea. Too bad it doesn't work on my iPad. It's hard enough carrying a cello around on the subway, so I'd prefer not to carry a whole laptop.

Or does it? How can you find evidence for a fourth spacial dimension? We could be living on a "bubble" of three-dimensional space as a fourth is filling in undetectable from us.

This feels the same way as hearing that the whole Internet just got shut down.

We live in the era of CSS3, embeddable web fonts, & the text-shadow property, yet this is what represents IE 9’s support for web typography: http://jsdo.it/event/svggirl/img/movie/img_loading_01_en.png

If you’re going to resort to raster graphics at least do a better job hanging that apostrophe in the word “it’s”.

This is amazing! It’s hard to imagine these images are real given how complex and beautiful the UI design is.

· Multiple fonts.

· Multiple, simultaneous languages.

· Dithered graphics to simulate value, tone, and shading.

· Rounded buttons.

· Use of line-weight to simulate dimension.

I have a catch-all account for my domain. If I sign up for a service I use their domain as the user on the address I give out. E.g. facebook@mydomain.com.

The result is that all email that isn't personal nor directly related to my business gets sent to an account that I check once a day.

If an address gets spammy or, like the Epsilon situation, a service provider gets hacked I can block my account without consequence.