Whoever is teaching the basic assumption that iPad users want less options and features… that person is very wrong.

Is it safe… results in:
Is it safe to drink urine? (result number 4)

Citing unmaterialized cost savings touted by Northrop Grumman, the DoD intends to discard the Global Hawk Block 30 program in favor of the U-2. That’s right, the pre-space age tech aircraft shot down by the soviets in 1960. It’s hard to believe, but the U-2 program survives as a surveillance mechanism, and somehow our Defense Department has managed to incorrectly prioritize programs yet again. It seems impossible to believe that the DoD can’t find anything better to cut. Yet, on the other hand, what is the DoD to do after being handed a trillion dollars in spending cuts over the next decade?

Years ago I got a chuckle out of Google Maps directions from New York to London, which showed jumping off a shipping dock and swimming to the motherland. Sadly, this demonstration of machines underestimating the capability of man is no longer available at Google Maps. However, today I learned that Kayak.com was clearly not intended for international (non US) travelers. That is unless I’m just not familiar with the 37 hour layovers typical on a routine flight from Beijing to Bangalore.

God help us all when the day comes that we are no longer able to insert our own reason and intellect into the processes of machines. Every day that passes, we get one day closer to the year 2505 where the predictions of the movie “Idiocracy” will inevitably come true. At least then, no one will have the intellect capable of inserting into the reasoning of the machine. That is unless a certain someone by the name of Not Sure awakes from his 500 year cryofreeze. Then we’ll all witness the pinnacle of insanity, like in the scene were “Not Sure” is assigned his identity tatoo.

But Windows 7 is definitely a major improvement. I just logged into my old XP partition, and the first thing it did was tell me that I had unused icons on the desktop. I have zero icons on my desktop.