@Gort23: If you read the article, she says that the first charge was on 3/14 and she noticed 3/29. Does that sound like she handed him the card?

I'm fairly Apple-agnostic - I don't have a Mac, do have an iPhone. That said, I'm rooting against the iPad fairly heavily.

@Orihalcon: I couldn't have made that point any better.

@Tenacious_Z: ...tobacco's not an herb?

I smoked for ten years, and struggled to stop several times before I started smoking nicotine-free cigarettes ([nicotinefreecigarettes.com]). This helped in two ways:

@(Starman) 258, Brigadier-General of the FireWire Battalion: That dude is pretty beefy. I think it says more to the comic exaggeration of Kratos in the game more than anything.

@watcher_b: Generally speaking, rent is priced with property tax in mind.

I'm curious to find out what happens when someone actually does get robbed because [PleaseRobMe.com] collected all that information in one place.

@jord: "Linux" wasn't an option.

These Hive Fives have become something of a joke lately. OS X is a perfectly capable operating system, and I won't dispute that. But to say it's one of the five best netbook operating systems - and ostensibly better than Windows XP (maybe those votes were rolled into Windows 7?) is patently ridiculous. If you want OS…

Paintball and slingshots? If they're going to compete for testing positions, they should at least be doing what normal game testers do all day: pestering developers with the awful design documents they wrote the night before, taking smoke breaks, and telling everyone who'll listen about what it's like to work in "the…

Saying the iPad compares favorably to a Kindle but doesn't have e-Ink is like saying that a bicycle compares favorably to a car, but doesn't have an engine.

This almost seems like something Google would put out in the course of marketing Wave. Why isn't it being compared to other collaboration tools (Basecamp, Sharepoint, Zoho Workspace)? Try as the Wave team might to say that it's an iteration on mail/GDocs/IM/etc, it's still really only a collaboration tool, and if…

If a real estate agent or otherwise self-employed person (that's not a freelancer) uses a free email service, I tend to think twice about engaging them. You can get all the benefits of Gmail with Google Apps, and a domain for next to nothing. Why would you use your Yahoo account?

@Oscar Rodriguez: Assuming that you pay out $350 extra upfront and save $37.05 monthly (i.e., taking the table's word as law), after two years the break-even interest rate is 9.34%. So, it's possible to do better than that, but it involves risk. In any case, I don't think the time value of money is really much of a…

"Fans of StarCraft's Protoss may not have to wait until 2011—or later—to get their hands on the teleporting, psionic blade-wielding alien race."

I realize he's a Linux fan, but does that really mean he can't have Windows?

@dmccall: Except that Verizon and Sprint use different tech than AT&T and T-Mobile. All the legislation in the world isn't going to make the iPhone become a CDMA handset.

It's cool to hate Twitter, but it does have value as a quick-hit information tool. I think the people that are easy to argue against (those who post what they're having for breakfast) aren't nearly as prevalent as the anti-Twitter folks would argue. #twitter

Hey, more LOLBat! That's not getting old.