It's quite rare, but USAF pilots can be deployed on carrier ops if they have the proper training, skill and certification no?

If you have an accident and the insurance company determines the components weren't replaced properly/by a certified specialist, you can forget about them paying up. I don't like the thought of that. Some things can safely be replaced by anyone, but some parts you should leave to the pro's.

Anything that involves a potential safety hazard when not done by a qualified specialist (in other words: anything your insurance will refuse to cover when not done by a specialist with a bill to prove it). You don't let your nephew who's into biology perform open-heart surgery, you don't let your neighbor who's a…

I agree, Siri doesn't know shit about HAL and what made HAL try to kill Dave and the other astronauts. People who have seen 2010 or read all the books would know HAL was just trying to obey commands, even if they were in conflict with the three laws. Whoever created that answer should be sacked.

It really just depends on the copyright holder. I've uploaded a clip from The IT Crowd, YT told me it matched third-party content and I acknowlegded it. It hasn't been taken down at all. If the copyright holders aren't a bunch of corporate fascists (like Viacom for instance), they can be pretty lenient. Hell, the…

I reviewed one, they work. Essentially they're just color filters, but you can have them made to specifications. The only side effect is that when you take them off, everything looks blue because your brain has adapted to the filtered light that enters your eyes: it takes a few minutes for the brain to adjust itself…

I still purchase music on physical CD's, I like having something tangible. Then I rip them to my iTunes library and safely store the original CD's, for a time where storage on media players is so dirt cheap I can switch to lossless formats.

also: NEVER EVER look through the viewfinder while pointing the camera at the sun, use the live view function. Don't rely on the filtering system, damaging a DSLR because of a bad filter is just a big financial setback, permanently damaging your eye has far graver consequences for the remainder of your life.

Ah yes, the foursquare machinegun-checkins. Lamers with more than 40 mayorships in busy places in various cities, which makes it blatantly obvious they're cheating the foursquare system. You can report these lamers to the 4SQ-team, who will take away any unfairly earned mayorships.

Though Giz isn't a photography-specific site, you raise very valid points for comparing the cameras.

Maybe that should become part of the driving exam: you have to drive to a certain point in your neighborhood without any electronic assists, the only thing you get to use are a paper map at the beginning to think up a route. Extra points if you manage to avoid the roads that are always congested :D

Who needs GPS in their hometown, clearly hasn't been living there long enough. Mankind coped just fine without turn-by-turn GPS until 2006-ish. If you don't know the location of a certain address in your hometown, just Googlemaps (or for Microsoft employees: Bingmaps) it so you know where it is and go there without…

Solution: camouflage the radio behind an 8-track faceplate or something, use a bluetooth audio receiver plugged into the aux connection so you can leave the iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad/Android/... in your pocket :D

"and he can undock it when he gets home."

"and sharepen the jaws of" -> should be "sharpen"

agreed, this isn't new by far. Typical Redditfolk thinking they invented the wheel.

Keep your goddamn phone away and just enjoy the show. It'll look and sound like shit on the recording anyway, all you're doing is obstructing the view of those behind you and make them prone to grabbing your phone and throwing it into low earth orbit.

Yep, it's really too bad people think by that flawed logic. In the end of the day, the physical size of the CCD is way more important. That's why an old DSLR will still give far superior pictures to even that 41MP nokia. The sensor is physically larger, resulting in the pixels of the sensor being bigger, which goes a…

I use mine as a dirt-cheap HD media center. All the other functions people state here are already done by my router or NAS, so I don't bother with those. There are several RPi XBMC solutions, I use RaspBMC because it has out of the box support for the old Xbox dvd remote. If you don't have such a remote, you should…

Sadly, they do exist, in the deepest realms of mac fanboyism, the utmost fanatic zealots who preach their machead gospel of OSX supremacy and think they're superior for using the platform. :') You know, the ones who make all users of Apple products look bad.