Not even for web browsing?

The cell dies anyway, once invaded by a virus. At least as stated, this doesn't cause any cell death that wouldn't have happened anyway, and may cause less if it allows the virus to be killed off before reaching more cells.

I'd be totally in for that Nook Color refurb... I just don't know what I'd do with a tablet. I'm pretty happy with my laptop and smartphone. Happy enough that I've successfully avoided buying a tablet despite wanting one for like two years.

Shit. I didn't notice that until you mentioned it. I was totally in for one for my buddy, too... now I just can't bring myself.

Ah, so you weren't assuming two options? That's kind of crucial to my pedantry. Foiled again! I'll get you next time, my pretty, and your epistemic assumptions, too!

You can't have less than nothing. If you're assuming only two options, and one of them is "no control," the other must have "more control than nothing." Alternately, if you assume the first is "less control than the alternative," then the other must be, "more control than the alternative." So one of your two options…

So you're just kind of a dick for suggesting the government might have murdered soldiers to conceal some conspiracy - two claims for which you have no actual evidence. First, that there's a conspiracy to hide, and second, that the government had these soldiers killed to protect it. You're entitled to see evil in every…

I use about 2-300Mb of cellular data and 1Gb of wifi... because I have wifi at home, at work, downtown, and anywhere there's a Starbucks/Ikea/McDonalds/every coffee shop anywhere/Haggen grocery store/AT&T hotspot.

Damn, dictionary.com. 234 trackers?

I guess that's my whole point: we don't have enough information to say anything about how well known these words are, either because we don't know how many people saw it in total or because we don't know how many didn't understand it but didn't look it up either. So the list doesn't really tell us anything about how…

And we don't even know how many people read the article. If a million people read the article containing panegyric, then 582 looking it up is pretty small fries (not that I think a million did, but you know...).

How many people read the article that contained the word panegyric? We know 582 looked it up, but there's no information about whether "all" or even "most" looked it up. If 10,000 people read the article that's only 5.8%. I could just as easily start claiming only 5.8% of people who read that article don't know the…

That's just it, though. My whole point is that they're not complicated words. You undoubtedly know thousands of words more complicated than churlish, and it was #7. My assumption, though, is that most people probably look at that list of words and say, "Huh, that many people don't know the meaning of X?" So for them…

Are you assuming that other people don't know words that you don't know? I mean, 1,500 people looked up misdemeanor, which is pretty commonly heard (though perhaps not read). It seems likely enough that the people who looked up some of the words probably didn't look up others. Someone may know dyspeptic and not…

I wasn't born in NY state, or attend an Ivy League school. I'm certainly not the cultural elite. But I know a handful of those words. Calling them irrelevant because you don't know them (or don't "have an absolute understanding" of them) sounds an awful lot like sour grapes. Words are never irrelevant. You don't have…

Or, as the source link shows, the whole thing was engineered by Canon. Because it seems odd to assume people who can wire together 250 cameras and program them to use the flashes as pixels in moving images must not know anything about electronics.

Eeennhhh... I love Android, but its voice-to-text is definitely not without error. I like to send voice SMS' once in a while and it's definitely not perfect. I tried to send my ex a text saying, "How's the barbecue going?" and my phone wanted to send, "How's the barbecue god?" Stuff like that happens pretty frequently…

Yep. A lot like that.

My grandparents had a tube surrounded by an ornamental steel cage. The cage was attached by springs, so when a squirrel put its weight anywhere on the feeder the cage slid down, covering the feeding holes. Seemed to work well. Like this, only prettier:

No, Mass. has the RMV - Register of Motor Vehicles. Kat's a Brit, however. Different states use different names for the agency that issues licenses and registers motor vehicles. The term DMV (Dept. or Division of Motor Vehicles) is generally understood everywhere, but Washington state uses DOL (Dept. of Licensing), MA…