If young people feel like tech devices are a part of their person, it will be so much easier for them to adapt to direct brain interfaces!

I don't even know if I'm joking...

Yep, and Software Vendors are experts at identifying who in that patchwork has purchasing authority and what their procurement limits are. They will craft their software sale to stay within certain limits in order to avoid the next level of procurement approval.

In their defense, it is not just incompetence on the part of the customer. Software Vendors love to come up with intricate and convoluted licensing terms. They are experts at obfuscation. Of course, just using 'open source' as an answer isn't necessarily the right thing. It should be a combination of closely monitored procurement practices along with select open sourcing when it make sense.

Who is to say that a AI does not have a soul? Do you have some type of test to prove it does not?

I have no test to prove that AI does not a soul. I also have no test to prove that there is not a hyper-intelligent, 9-dimensional, massless, invisibile spectral flamingo perched upon my head all times. And yet, I do not believe it is there.

Imagine a world where the cable company bought all the restaurant chains. Meals are no longer for sale! If you want to eat dinner at Chili's, just sign up for an expensive monthly service providing all-you-can-eat food at 37 chains all around town.

What's that, you only want to eat out occasionally at one or two restaurants? That's your choice but the price is the same.

Oh, did I mention that each meal will be interrupted 2-3 times for several minutes of pitches from various unrelated businesses? Don't worry, you'll get used to it! Soon it will seem normal to eat this way.

Fox News is number one on cable for a reason, and most of you will never understand that reason.

Masochism?

Do you KNOW when TIME CUBE
4 corner simultaneous conference
meets? When you see 24 hour Days
that occur within a single 4 corner
rotation of Earth then join the ONEism.
Also consult the East Lansing Days Inn
for group rate discounts.

The universe does not exist, except as
opposites. Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.

LHC experiments have generated an archive of 100PB...

Torrent link?

The Nexus 6 is just one of many Android devices, with a specific feature set. If you want an SD card then choose a different device.

On the other other hand, changes to the Android OS can limit every device by every manufacturer. I'm really glad Google is reverting the badly considered restrictions from Android 4.4.

expecting x years with one product, y years with another product, and z years with a third, while specifying that it's an intermediate position

You misread the job description. The JOB is experienced. The salary is intermediate.

Those chips are used in the servers IBM still sells: Mainframe & p-Series. Closing down the chips business would destroy their high margin mainframe business.

Ginni learned how to do this from her predecessor. Sam was the 'visionary', Ginni is just following through on his roadmap.

This leaves many colleges favoring achievement robots who excel at the memorization of rote knowledge...

This is also how most colleges go about evaluating their students! SAT scores and high school grades are actually the perfect metrics to use, because they match up with the way that colleges are run. If there is any hope of changing this, we should start by actually valuing creativity, curiosity, and open discussion of ideas in college.

Typical colleges will throw a mountain of work and an onerous set of rules at their students, and then see who can survive. This works because anyone who can handle it will also be able to handle an employer's demands.

To get that "banned book" feeling with To Kill a Mockingbird, try reading an illegally downloaded copy. Don't do it because you're cheap, do it because applying copyright to a book written over 50 years ago is just as egregious as banning it for content.

This post sums it up pretty well.

Physical locks still need to be broken manually, one door at a time.

When it comes to https, all locks can potentially be opened at once, remotely, with the click of a button, and with no sign of intrusion. It's hardly the same.