I can imagine that, if used by equal numbers of people, that the women's restroom could be worse than the men's. The trick here, though, is that an event like this would be completely dominated by men, meaning the women's restrooms would be relatively unused, and therefore almost definitely cleaner.

If you want someone else to put the protector on for you, there's always Best Buy. (Please, let's avoid the BBY hate just for a moment.)

That's not a Beta, that's an Eszet, liars!

Why on earth would you stick an ethernet switch on your monitor arm? I get that the guy wants to save desk space, but that has to be the most idiotic place to stick it imaginable. Stick it to the bottom of the desk, if you must, but there's no reason to be routing all those additional ethernet cables (not to mention…

Seems like it'd be a straightforward test to prove/disprove Pepsi's claims.

All right, but I've got another possibility: content snobs. Maybe they just don't like the quality of the rips available by pirating, or maybe they're looking for movies/shows/etc. that simply aren't readily available online.

Regarding question 3, you're missing the obvious answer: If you download it, you can get caught and prosecuted, even if you legitimately own the disc (since pirating frequently involves redistributing, making you liable for uploading to others). If you rip it yourself, the MPAA will be none the wiser.

"Dispair" means to separate a pair. I think you meant "despair"—feeling hopeless.

Now, I'm don't know much in the way of meteorology, but I do know a good bit about fluid dynamics, and the explanation of the lower layer being more stable is most definitely true. This is what's called a boundary layer. Usually, when boundary layers are discussed, it's just a tiny region of, say, a plane's wing,…

That's because when you Safely Remove an iPod, you're actually removing the entire device. For devices like iPods and thumb drives, where the storage and adapter are part of the same device, Safely Remove and Eject would have the same effect. But when you split the storage and adapter up, as you would with a memory…

Are you sure you're hitting "Eject," or might you be using "Safely Remove"? If you're using something like a card reader—even one built into your computer—and you click "Safely Remove," it's assuming you want to remove the card reader hardware and not just the card in the slot. Assuming the card reader is built in,…

Not very easily or satisfactorily. The problem with most small point and shoots is that the flash is usually right up against the lens and pretty weak.

Wait...the Lego trains are now battery-operated? That sucks. I still have my old Lego train that used the electrified rails (not to mention the even older battery-powered futuristic Monorail set, as well).

Given the choice, I'd rather NOT get the newest model. Those things are awful. I'm just hoping they can find something wrong with the 2nd gen's battery so I can get mine replaced. It just doesn't hold as much of a charge anymore, but there's just no way I can go with the crap-fest that is the new Nano.

You can do what I did, if you're in love with the style of that computer, but don't want a Mac: buy one of the Lian-Li PC-V1000 series. It's not an identical match, but it's pretty darned close, and comes in either the raw aluminum or anodized black. They even have a few offerings that are extra-long for E-ATX…

Specifically, those "waves" create turbulence that mixes the airflow faster, because the shearing between the fast jet flow and the surrounding air is large source of engine noise.

It's nice that Flickr finally released their own (free) app, and it can definitely give you access to features not available in any previous third-party app, but as far as simply having a slick way to look through your albums and show them off, it's lacking. I'm still a fan of Flickfolio, personally. You can't get…

Sorry, but the feeling I get from the article is that they're presenting this as something really special, when it isn't. Any time the land masses shift, the gravity distribution shifts. Hell, the Earth's axis changes, too. It happens ALL the time (geologically speaking). I guess it's kinda neat, but it really…

Umm....gravity already had different magnitudes in different places. This isn't a new phenomenon; it's just a minor redistribution of something we already knew about.

Okay, a quick little bit of Japanese...