"I see your ass is vibrating. Do you have anal Parkinson's or are you just glad to see me?"

As long as he remembers not to drop the sword—er, soap—his stay should be tolerable.

Yes, but that's not as exact as one-button "skip all the commercials, please" functionality :) . No silly 10-seconds-back needed.

I've been wanting a feature like this for a long time. I wasn't sure, though, how the DVR would actually tell where the commercial begins and where it ends—any details on that internal process?

It's okay, you're with nerd-kind here on Gizmodo :P . And I assume those nonsense combinations are any that mention God as anything bad...so no "The Almighty Rapist" in there XD .

Nor emotions...even though they're usually based quite a bit on emotion, which is a problem at times...

A good clue that global warming is real? There are fewer pirates on the sea! :P

Yes, the child has been violated and abused. But not by the guy looking at pictures that the kid doesn't even know about. (S)he has been abused by the person who abused him/her and recorded it to put online. The producers deserve the harsh punishment, not the consumers. A year in prison would suffice for a thought…

The worst part is he failed to destroy the data. Which means that he annihilated his computer, but still managed to miss the hard drive. Pathetic.

Basically. If you have a picture of someone who's under 18 in a sexual situation of any kind, it's child porn. Even if that child is you, oddly enough. Meanwhile, two 16-year-olds can have consensual sex and, depending on your state laws, it's perfectly fine. You may have noticed a slight problem there—it's okay for…

That's a slippery slope argument. "If someone does this, then it's unlikely they won't also do that." It's a fallacy. You have no idea how many people actually look at child porn without producing any. Your argument is similar to the right-wing arguments against gay marriage: "If gay marriage is legal, then the…

I know, man. I feel the same way. I'm going back home to Florida in about a week...I used to be proud of that, but thanks to the stupid people there in the news, I can't be anymore.

Oh, man. So much heart.

"The minute that stupid movie came out". Really? Why did they wait so long before mentioning this?

There is no difference. The Mayans just started their cycles in different places than we do, hence the 2012 being the beginning of a new cycle. We do it every 12 months, they did it in longer intervals.

I just looked at the plot summary on that Wikipedia page, and the math nerd in me couldn't help but do that math. That alphabet they created must have had 12 or 13 letters in it, and I'm thinking it's 13. I don't know if Clarke showed the alphabet in the story, but you can just use A through M if you want :P .

I appreciate the latest tech, but I don't obsess over needing it because I can't afford such a personality :P .

"If true, how many children would have to be underachievers in the US?" Considering that the US is commonly considered behind most of the developed world in terms of education...you may have just nailed your own coffin.

Did you have deja vu? That's usually a sign they've changed something...

It sounds like it's a more specific Faraday cage, one that only blocks certain frequencies (not the ones used by phones).