Do you remember the days when your phone battery lasted three or four days before charging?

Technically none of the technologies out meet the ITU-R specification for 4G status, which is 100Mbit/s for highly mobile devices (cars, trains) and 1Gbit/s for low mobility (people). The ITU-R backpedaled and acknowledged LTE, WiMax and HSPA+ as 4G ostensibly because they show significant advancement toward true 4G…

They are. It's really a stalemate because they haven't come up with a way to test science to see if it works. If only there were a method...

So I've been involved in lobbying the state legislature for about six years now for a bill that mandates sex education be medically accurate. That's it. Just a requirement that they can't lie to kids, tell them they'll get AIDS from using a toilet, or that sex increases the risk of cancer, or whatever. Six years, we…

Other studies I've read have found that abstinence-only education and things like purity pledges tend to delay the first sexual encounter, but not by long, and that when they do engage in sex it's more likely to be unprotected. Which makes sense, because they were never taught about the need for protection, only the…

Do you have a Costco? Here, it carries truRoots Sprouted Bean Trio, which is ready in 15 minutes and doesn't taste like an instant meal (they're really good). I'm sure they're available elsewhere, I just found them at Costco.

A few minutes of research can net you a breadmaker that's pretty easy. Some of them literally require nothing more than tossing the ingredients into the machine and turning it on. It can take care of the stirring and kneading and rising and baking. With those you end up with a mixing blade baked into the bottom of…

The $4 billion price tag for AT&T to walk away ain't chump change. It's $750 million more than Apple's third quarter profit this year. T-Mobile can put that money to good use bringing in more high-end phones and building out their network, or just subsidizing their low prices, to draw in more customers and be even…

I was house sitting for a friend and decided that she had the most annoying microwave ever. So it beeps when it's done, okay. But then it beeps three times again every 20-30 seconds to remind you it's done, until you open the door. I made the mistake of putting a cup of coffee in to warm up while I went to turn on the…

Go to Target today. Buy a microwave. Wrap the box in plastic. Put it in your attic. Wait 20 years or so. Find that generation's hipsters. Sell them the microwave for $7 billion, or whatever inflation has ended up making "a large amount." Brilliant.

That makes sense, assuming only the parts of the phone used for work-related activity are being managed by the company, and everything else is off limits.

We have something like this at the hospital. They synchronize to a time server (the same one that synchronizes the badge readers we use to punch in and out). You can tell which clocks are Official Hospital Clocks because their seconds hands don't tick in that characteristic start-stop motion, they just rotate around…

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I take pictures all the time. I scan barcodes with Red Laser, or run pretty much anything through Google Shopper. I almost always assume I can find things cheaper online (though sometimes it's worth the premium to have it now), so I do it a lot. I've never had a problem, or even been looked at funny.

Granted, the majority of our armed services are male... but I'd hope they're looking at non-gender specific mechanisms. Especially as more women sign up.

I'm not worried about whether the Galaxy Nexus will come to AT&T. A GSM version that supports both T-Mo and AT&T bands has already passed the FCC, and while VZW is the only carrier to have announced the launch of the Galaxy Nexus that's actually better than either of the previous Nexus phones. The Nexus One launched…

So Steven Pinker talks about how we actually live in the most peaceful period in human history, showing a bunch of graphs and what not showing a steady decline in murder and genocide as far back as we have records or the ability to estimate. It's kind of interesting... people have a tendency to believe the world was…

Re: #2, that's the most rational advice I've heard yet. I'm sure I've spent less than $20 on apps. I think I have one $4 app, and the rest are freebies (either by design or Amazon's FAotD). Thanks for the input.

I hadn't really thought about the camera. I use that a surprising amount. I'm okay with the SGS' camera... but a better one would be nice. Though so would a higher resolution screen. THIS IS WHY IT'S SO HARD.

Nope! Thanks for not paying attention! At least everyone else got the idea (see literally every other response besides yours).