Have parachutes suddenly gone out of favor for land speed record cars?

I don't think that you want to do this. Next thing that you know, they will become sentient, start building new bots, and before long Mars will be a planet housing a race of sentient robots who want to destroy all humans!

Thank you for the article. However, rather than being told what won't protect my bike, it would have been way more useful to have been told what *would* protect my bike, even if it cost more. Most useful would have been if you told us what would protect our bikes for the lowest price among similar products.

Thank you for the article. However, rather than being told what won't protect my bike, it would have been way more useful to have been told what *would* protect my bike, even if it cost more. Most useful would have been if you told us what would protect our bikes for the lowest price among similar products.

I don't think that the problem with HFCS is necessarily chemical; it is political. Farm subsidies make corn, and thus HFCS, dirt cheap. With HFCS so cheap, processors feel free to add it to practically everything that we eat. Having a boatload of sugar, any kind of sugar, in our diet is a bad thing.

What Apple was demoed at Xerox PARC was a beta of SmallTalk. What Apple developed and subsequently sold, was not a version of SmallTalk. It was different, and far far more advanced. SmallTalk was never a commercially viable product.

Some fact checking is in order. Apple didn't steal anything from Xerox PARC. In fact, they purchased a license to the technology that Xerox owned:

I'd say that you hit the nail on it's head:

If your parents have a Macintosh (even a new one), the one thing that you should do for them is uninstall Adobe Flash, and then download and install the latest version. In most cases, all sorts of performance problems or other weirdness will disappear as if by magic!

If your mouse hurts you, you don't need "a great mouse;" you need a mouse that keeps your hand in a position so that it can't be hurt again. There is no better mouse than this one for avoiding pain and injury:

If more than just a few nerds on Gizmodo were interested in a tablet that ran a full version of the Windows OS, then Window's slates, which have been around for years, would have sold like hotcakes. They didn't. They sold like second-hand cowchips.

Monkeys and humans are different, unfortunately. There have been several promising vaccines for AIDS that have tested well in animal research. But AIDS mutates more in humans than in monkeys, so it is much harder to come up with an effective vaccine.

We may not be terribly far away from having a vaccine that would prevent Type 1 Diabetes:

From what I've read, I strongly suspect that Apple is investing heavily in Carbon fiber. It's in short supply, and I understand that Apple will be using it in the future to make their laptops and iPads lighter.

@Legumes: Legal precedent was set years ago saying that your employer owns your work computer, he owns your work product (whatever you create at work, and especially on the work computer), and thus he owns your work e-mail.

Could this guy be related to Jack Campbell?

For those who don't believe that this message in Facebook's login page is intentional, I recommend that you read this book:

@tigolbitties: Here's something I don't understand. This guy is a pilot. I would assume that he has very high security clearance just to be flying a plane. He probably was even in the military. He may even have a higher security clearance then the high school dropouts doing the security pat downs. Can't…

Wait, we're talking about the same Carl Sagan who Apple honored by code naming (internally only) the PowerMac 7100 after him? He sued Apple over this. And lost. (As he should have.) Apple re-code named (internally only) the PM7100 "BHA" for "butt-headed astronomer". Sagan sued over this also. And lost again.

@tinkertank: I think that it is Diane Keaton