.291? Where the hell did that come from?

The boo box.

I laughed at that too. I wonder why he would need it on a tether. Maybe it's tied to the trigger so if he drops it it automatically shoots him in the foot.

At 2:03 I think they're using the only two then-functional weapons in the country.

The only way you could technically consider them "free" is through the Amazon Prime borrowing function, where you rent books for free once a month. Other than that it's standard digital price.

No, they're not even close to free. Whatever gave you that idea?

Yeah, but that's still a pretty damn impressive machine regardless of the cost.

And then they should give me $40,000 to investigate how the government wastes money and what they can do about it.

Somehow I feel like my average ATM usage time is way shorter than the time it took my dial-up to connect. Unless the dialing process has been incredibly shortened since 2001.

You have a point. 184-pin SDRAM is still pretty expensive (last I bought it was a few years ago at $27 for one GB) but I bought 8 GB of DDR3 SO-DIMM for my laptop a few months ago for a cool $45.

It absolutely baffles me as to why a 56K modem is still $90 but a decent wireless router costs only $60. I thought tech was supposed to get cheaper as it got older. Is there some sort of premium market for legacy tech?

Lasers PEW PEW PEW was all I got from this article.

"If your only exposure to the art of compiling police composites comes from CSI or NCIS or ASDFJKL, you might think that modern law enforcement is all supercomputers and enhance machines."

"Not shabby, I suppose."

Remember kids: gauges make you do stupid things.

You mean this one? [gizmodo.com]

I know barium chloride gives off that green color, and strontium chloride gives off a nice strong red. Sadly I don't remember what color gave blue.

I laughed so hard.

Oh noooooo!

I'm sorry, I didn't realize that new viruses aren't still being developed for Windows XP. What's that? Almost a third of Windows machines still run XP? Oh...