Opthamologist, actually — though your point stands. Funny that Assad is so shortsighted about his current circumstances, eh?

Paperweight.

Dude. One word: edit.

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And, right to Hitler...in record time. No, that's not insane. Not at all.

Hey! As a (New) Jersey native, I'm ... nevermind. As you were.

The phrase also sounds like the conclusion to every Arthur C. Clarke novel.

I see your point, but I don't see that as a realistic comparison. How many computer users have "a couple drives in a RAID array" in a homestup? A small percentage, perhaps. Cloud services, whether through Google, Apple, Dropbox or others, are much more available to the vast majority of users.

I see your point, but I don't see that as a realistic comparison. How many computer users have "a couple drives in a RAID array" in a homestup? A small percentage, perhaps. Cloud services, whether through Google, Apple, Dropbox or others, are much more available to the vast majority of users.

I'm a heavy reader, but this time out I've chosen to not read the books, at least for now. As the series is making its own place, with departures from the books, I want the series to stand on its own in my mind. I don't want to hear an inner voice saying "but in the book..." I get enough of that from certain other…

Count me in with the "What's the appeal of Ant-Man?" camp. Seriously, io9ers, I'm genuinely curious. The various versions of the character were, to me, at best decent background.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

"For example, in The Wishsong of Shannara, Wil Ohmsford has feelings for Amberle, an elven girl who sacrifices herself to save the world, and Wil experiences an immense loss. "

Love the post. Just a clarification: Star Trek V was subtitled "The Final Frontier." VI was The Undiscovered Country.

What about Carbonite? I have some frustrations with it — namely, that it is slow and resource-consuming on my particular Mac — it was hot for a while. Has it fallen out of favor?

"I mean, as far as I know there aren't many decapitations on weekday afternoon television."

REAL web users don't use GUI browsers. They type out all web addresses by hand — using the numbers, never the names or www anything.

Evernote's Clearly extension is a new entrant into this space.

The classic Doctor Who show was seen in scores of countries around the globe, beginning at least in the 1970s, if not soon after it debuted in the UK in 1963.

"Would you live in a virtual world full of history’s greatest psychopaths for a million dollars?"