I can't remember the brand for the life of me, but I picked up a ~$35 6W LED that is every bit as bright as the 60W I replaced with it. The light is a bit more precise, but is identical in every other way. I plan to buy many more.

I have also had many remote controls roll over the decade mark. Making a keypad with flexible materials doesn't cost that much money. The design work was done ages ago, and the internal components are now ridiculously cheap; there price premium is 100% artificial.

A co-worker of mine has an *ancient* desk calculator in his office, which he furiously pounds thousands of numbers into 5 or 6 days per week. It doesn't take $100 to find something that will hold up to daily use for that long.

Oh, sweet, they dropped in a screen from a 10 year old cell phone.

100% impossible to enforce. What's to stop him from picking up a cheap, anonymous, prepaid Android phone with unlimited data and tethering to a cheap netbook while he uses the toilet?

Is this some kind of artistic physical representation of Dropbox?

Is this really necessary? My company bought me an ipad maybe 6 weeks ago, and I was typing surprisingly fast on it after only a week or so. 15wpm or better, I would estimate; if I needed more than that for what the tablet is used for, I would get a damn tactile keyboard cover for it and call it good.

Don't you fucking dare stop those porn sites.

To preform rapid electrolysis, you would need to run an electrical current through this setup, and use salt water. If you can work out a way to easily collect the hydrogen that veeeery slowly bubbles out the top (in sufficient concentration, mind you), then you'll actually be slowly turning the anode into iron oxide…

Here I was waiting for the punchline at the end of the article. I'm still having trouble seeing how this rant is meant to be taken seriously.

It has no atmosphere, no water, and is literally as hot as fire. There are a hundred worlds in our own solar system that are more likely to have life, almost none of which are even remotely likely to harbor it.

This article seemed to focus more on the frustrations in sorting out pieces of the rover from unexpected particles in the Martian soil, but nice try.

Hole. Eee. Shit.

Damnit damnit damnit.

That's kind of bizarre to me, that merchant employees essentially hold legal status as pseudo law enforcement.

Safety.

I don't understand this concept of a security guard being able to physically block a suspect from leaving the store.

This was very interesting and enlightening. Thank you, Hugo.

End prohibition on all drugs that are easy to define as "less harmful than alcohol" (most of them), put a small portion of the current Drug War budget on rehabilitation programs, and watch the cartel violence dwindle away. It really is that simple.

Damn...too bad I don't live in Denmark...or have a small penis.