I worked for three years as a systems programmer for EDS post-Perot. Imagine a company built to service the ego of a self-righteous pompous autocrat - without a head. Upper management worshipped the memory of Perot, and having been an employee while He was there placed you higher on the pecking order. Sharing…

I hear you on your Dad. Been there/done that with my own folks. Independence is something that is paramount to the elderly. However, the same economies of scale that keep smaller towns from having public transit (cost per rider) probably won't let a program like this show up anywhere smaller than a city for a long…

You can do that now. It's called "public transit." No Googles needed.

Obviously the coat rack is worthy.

I used TT for over 10 years, got refunds, and was happy. Last year we moved and went to a professional tax preparer instead. As part of the "getting to know you" process he asked for the last few years of returns. A couple weeks later he had good news/bad news: refunds coming for the current year, but we owed money…

My most beneficial game optimization for my Mac was buying a basic USB mouse with scroll wheel, just for gaming. The Apple Magic Mouse is, well, overkill for gaming. It's far too sensitive, works like a touchpad, and most games seem to work best with the basic two-button/scroll setup anyway. I leave the cheap mouse…

Not to mention that brick and mortar retailers have been tracking customer flow from the earliest days of the department store and supermarket. This is just the 21st Century version of placing flunkies with clipboards around the store.

"I never opted in to being tracked in-store or anywhere else in meatspace."

Politifact lost most of their credibility with the Ryan Medicare story. Proof right there that "fact checkers" are not infallible. Had they admitted to making a mistake, or even to going too far, they'd still be a resource to look at. But they doubled down on the error, even to the point of saying their ruling "wasn't…

If we're talking unmodified from the factory, I'm going to go with my '89 SHO. Sure, it was only 220hp in a 3300 lb. car - until you let out the clutch. Keeping the front tires from smoking was a learned skill. I'm sure that I didn't do the drive train any favors by starting out in second as often as I did in daily…

Selling warranties makes sense for Amazon considering how much money they are losing on Kindle sales. And customers love getting upsold on a purchase - just ask anyone who's shopped at Best Buy.

Since it was built in Iowa...

You forgot to mention that:

Despite Amazon's refusal to release specific sales numbers, we do that Kindle content can be purchased and used on iOS devices. We also know that iOS accounted for 88% of Black Friday mobile traffic. Therefore, "Kindle content" is the substantiated portion of Bezos' "9 out of the top 10," more so than device or…

Hey, it's not like Apple was going to send Giz an iPad to review, you know? They had to go borrow one from somebody in the office, and that's what the nice lady at Jezebel told them the specs were.

You know what's really stunning in its obviousness? How Giz writers have been trolling for hits for weeks with pathetic Apple hate screeds, and all the while crying into their half-caf, half-soy lattes about how Apple won't invite them over to see the new stuff.

1: Not making a profit on sales of a device can only be called a success if you measure business success by some metric other than profits. As both Amazon and Google are in business to make money for their shareholders, that makes the Kindle and the Nexus failures financially. So why sell Kindles? To sell you…

Huh. Who would have thought Apple wouldn't invite the folks who bought a stolen iPhone prototype and then attempted to extort Jobs for thousands of dollars to get it back?

What major successes from Amazon and Google are you talking about? Point to the sales figures. Right, you can't, because Amazon and Google won't release them. What objective, quantitative facts can be pointed to then? How about company profits last quarter from tablet sales? Amazon: $0, Google: less than $150 million…

Opinion piece failed at "equivalent Kindle Fire" - there is no equivalent Kindle to the iPad mini. Comparing a cheap, yet under featured eBook reader to an iPad is ridiculous.