Live Q&As;

You are wrong. We're getting a Captain Marvel movie!

Drone ghosts, obviously. 

I'm scaring all my neighbors by trick-or-treating with one.

[knock knock knock]

[door opens]

[drone stares back, waiting for candy]

But how large of a drone will you need to support the expected candy windfall? Is that even practical?

If they can figure out how to load missiles onto these things, a couple pounds of candy should be no trouble.

Reese's Cups or Swedish Fish. 

Skittles or Starburst are pretty high on my list.

Brian is a fruit-flavored candy guy, apparently. 

For the un-initiated, First Look Media is the journalistic brainchild of eBay founder/billionaire Pierre Omidyar. He committed $250 million to starting a new enterprise in January, and started recruiting big name talent -- including some of the journalists who broke the Snowden story last year. But things don't seem to have quite gone as planned. The original ambition of creating a general new site has been scrapped, and replaced with a focus on building news platforms and only one of the "digital magazines" promised has emerged. Then earlier this week it lost Matt Taibi, popular former Rolling Stone writer, who was supposed to lead one of the magazines.

Yesteday, The Intercept -- the only one digital magazine now up and running -- ran a scathing story on issues between Omidyar and his management people and the actual journalists he hired. 

They seem to have self-diagnosed the major issue:

Taibbi and other journalists who came to First Look believed they were joining a free-wheeling, autonomous, and unstructured institution. What they found instead was a confounding array of rules, structures, and systems imposed by Omidyar and other First Look managers on matters both trivial—which computer program to use to internally communicate, mandatory regular company-wide meetings, mandated use of a “responsibility assignment matrix” called a “RASCI,” popular in business-school circles for managing projects—as well as more substantive issues.

Basically, it appears a slew of talented, fiercely independent journalists were hired and then shoe-horned into a super structured Silicon Valley management style. So, we'll see how that goes. 

I'll only add that New York Magazine writer Andrew Rice has promised a follow-up story on the situation, and I for one am waiting for it eagerly. There's plenty more to learn, I think. The influx of new money into existing models of journalism tends to produce some growing pains, but there's the added wrinkle here of it involving someone like Matt Tiabbi who, to use a kinda horrible phrase, had a very strong personal brand going into it. 

Also, whoops -- I spelled Taibbi wrong. Two Bs. Sorry, Matt, if you are reading this. 

Anyone here used an iPhone 6 Plus? We've got a review copy here in the office, and I can attest to its ginormousness. I'm actually a little hesitant about eventually leaving my iPhone 5 behind, because I like that size.

I'm on team big phone -- but that's because I like the idea of carrying around one device that serves most of my daily needs. 

I was at lunch yesterday with someone who had an iPhone 6, and the group spent minutes poking good-natured fun at him for the size of the thing. I'm sure that goes away. Right?

Actually, that led to some enjoyable jokes that the iPhone case of the future is going to be one mimicking the Gordon Gekko-style phone. "Big is good. Big works."

I am 99% positive this question came from my fiance, so I'm answering it. Yes, it's super weird -- although "anyone" who works in the company is not quite right, it's really potentially anyone in the kitchen you're ordering from. And it's not clear they will see your actual location, it seems more likely they'll just a system that alerts workers when its time to start preparing the order. 

Also, yes, my fiance and I are Taco Bell addicts. 

We spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about Taco Bell and the best way to acquire it. 

Microsoft, as you noted, doesn't have a great hardware track record when it comes to actual consumer adoption. But I think Hayley actually quite liked the most recent Surface? 

Also, I'm going to go ahead and just leave this ad for Microsoft's fitness tracker bracelet that reddit found right here. 

Huh. That is interesting. I wonder if it's the hoodie-ization of the work bag. 

In a previous life, I worked in a pretty professional workplace where one our our most accomplished, most intelligent, most effective people lugged around the sort of backbag that a middle-schooler might carry. It taught me a good lesson about how being great at what you do conveys some real freedoms. 

So, I personally don't trust mobile banking or mobile payments. Blame it on too much cybersecurity beat reporting. 

I'm not alone, either -- according a Federal Reserve report from earlier this year found that only 17 percent of mobile phone users have made a mobile phone payment in the past 12 months. And that 63 percent of people who don't make mobile payments cite concerns about the security of the technology as a reason. 

But as the point of sale hackings from the past year show, there's basically no way to avoid some sort of digital security risk without paying entirely via cash.