I don't see that as compelling enough of a reason when Nano's are only 150, Shuffles only 50 and everyone already has a smart phone in their pocket capable of handling that. iPods themselves are already being reduced to niche status when they used to be an essential because of how much overlap there is with modern…

I'm pretty sure if I saw someone using that in public I would walk to the other side of the road out of fear that it was a bomb or that they were just stark raving mad. There's cheap Hong Kong special portable cell-phone chargers that would do a decent enough job to juice you between outlets, carrying around a…

I can see a small niche for a product like this but surely it can't be a huge part of their long term strategy, can it? Color me a pessimist but I see this product announcement being met with a cascade of yawns and a small dip in stock price. Apple's been getting stale since Jobs passed. I would be much more…

Fair enough.

That's a simplistic view of the First Amendment. Yes, you're allowed to say whatever you want but you can also implicate yourself through that free speech. Now there's some truth to what you say in that simply talking about illegal activities can not get you convicted of a crime but it can certainly be used in…

Unless an emulator uses proprietary BIOS files from the devices they are emulating they are not inherently illegal. Even when they do require such files like the vast majority of Nintendo DS emulators they circumvent it by telling the user to find it themselves, wink wink.

Hotel internet and other networks like it have redirects created by the owner of the building, not the provider of the service. Net Neutrality says that ISP's have to be dumb pipes which throttling certain traffic already violates and redirects to content the customer does not attempt to access is as well. Now lets be…

That assumes you are using their DNS servers, does it not? I use Google DNS plus a headless seedbox that I control remotely. It's not just plausible but almost certain that even if I get flagged I'm never going to see these alerts because the computer it's getting sent to is never used with a GUI, I don't use their…

On it's face mine isn't that impressive but the details paint the picture. I can provide some pictures later but, again, it's the same thing that's been seen a million times; a netbook running OSX.

And you're conveying what trait then? Humorless edginess? Sarcastic dismissal and insecurity? Not really a good look.

While perhaps not the most secure to do so I made my router name a clue into the riddle of it's password. I named it The Banana Stand and as all Arrested Development fans will know the phrase 'There's always money in the banana stand' will give some clues as to what it is though I assure you it's not as simple as just…

It is indeed both of those but only directed at that particular guy who apparently can't grasp how two variables interact. Of course it's an over simplification but coming up with counter examples doesn't squash the entire point because it's merely a correlation, not an absolute law of nature that can't under any…

While it's likely an over-zealous statement there's very easy logic to back up that hypothesis. All organisms are operating with essentially the same toolset. His conclusion after mapping this relationship is that the more demanding an organisms cells the lower the lifespan. The only idiots to take that the wrong way…

It's size vs metabolic rate. There are large things with low metabolic rates who will live longer than small things with fast metabolic rates. It's really not that hard to comprehend....

One axis is size, the other is metabolic rate. Following that logic something that is really small and has a really slow metabolic rate is going to live for a long time whereas something large with a really quick metabolism is going to die quickly. Therefore, there are large animals with slow metabolisms like turtles…

It's not a massively advertised feature mostly because every handset maker is still stuck on ICS but Google Now eats Siri's lunch in a lot of ways. Apple really got in the way of functionality by weighting business and advertising results too high in Siri's hierarchy. Google Now just gives you Google results and…

Their price-point was always way too high to be worth it anyway, I've always been partial to Asus myself for price and how nice their BIOS are.

Checkmate Windowists!

That sounds completely made up. As long as you can get there you can walk on it and we've sent satellites and other vehicles there fairly recently. How would the rotation of the Earth possibly prevent that? The only thing preventing us from walking on the moon is the will to do so, not some kind of anti-moon landing…

And I am talking about the early release as well. Go take a look at Cupcake or Donut and tell me that that looks like the iPhone. There is much more Palm OS in that than there is iOS, very little of the stylistic choices of the iPhone appears anywhere near the first releases of Android. Hardware maker overlays are the…