@Lazarou: At that point, you really ought to just buy an iPhone.

@PensoTroppo؟: If I were you, I'd just get a real phone. As in a phone that is only a phone and not a phone/music player/web browser/blender. They're cheap, and they tend to be vastly better at making calls than iPhones and smartphones and everything else that tries to do everything. Then grab an iPod and leech off…

@Mind_Grapes: AT&T basically.

@Preacher iTofu a.k.a. Scammer Money: That wi-fi map thing is actually pretty scary. I fired up my ipod in my office a while back and opened Maps to look something up, and watched in horror as it zoomed right in on my location, which I had never typed in. It freaked me the hell out, I had to go and look up how it…

@Preacher iTofu a.k.a. Scammer Money: Given that most of those downloads were fart apps, flashlights, and point-based social network scam games, I think that comparison may be a smidgen dishonest of Apple.

@matt_mcmhn: Ayn Rand=Objectivism, which earns points for being far-fetched even for social theory. You get some social theories like fascism that work as long as enough blood flows, and some like communism that sound nice but fail when human nature is added to the equation, but then you get to objectivism and even…

"Yes," said Steve Jobs when asked, "we are going to ruin the day of those jailbreakers like you wouldn't believe." When asked about the mobile security exploit that would allow any malicious website to immediately infect millions of Apple devices, Mr. Jobs cocked his head and furrowed his brow.

@geolemon: AT&T's data bandwidth is about an eighth the amount of a 4G connection. So "enough data" at 700kbps versus unlimited data at 6mbps and the price difference makes a lot more sense.

There are other, more useful mobile hotspots from clear that work for any device. More specifically, they have a 3G/4G hotspot that's a rebranded Sprint Overdrive, so even when you're out of a 4G service area you still have some net access. They also have a black version of the 4G hotspot that isn't locked to Apple…

The internet is rife with news stories about crazed people tracking down and trying to murder other people on the net over inconsequential arguments. The first time someone winds up knifed or shot over Warcraft because Blizzard published their real name on the net for the world to see, the lawsuit will be epic.

Foxconn Enlists External Company to Manage Shenzhen Dorms

@stryder100: The military providing for any spiritual needs of the soldiers doesn't disturb me in the least. Mandatory attendance would disturb me greatly, but just having the thing around for those who want to use it, not at all.

I got perfect scores on both tests, while still achieving faster reactions than the averages for multitasking. Neither test took into account that being distracted in the real world comes from being confronted with multiple things that you care about. It's much easier to filter out blue shapes than it is to ignore…

@Nihilexistentialist: Well, let's say that your mom bought a car to drive you to school in, and she bought it because of a sweet stereo included in the car, which the car's maker advertised as a reason to buy the car.

Gates worked on the shitty later episodes of the Police Quest games. The Police Quests that most people played, 1-3, were made with a different cop named Jim Walls.

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Oh, and for the gun control argument, don't point to Canada. Canada's short on handguns but LOADED on rifles. A child playing with his rifle would not be any less common in Canada than in the US; if anything it might be more likely.

A .22 rifle isn't an uncommon or even particularly risky thing to have around an 11-year-old. I had a .22 at that age, used for target shooting under adult supervision. I was also not inclined to try to use the thing as a toy, which is kind of the important difference. The kid was careless, but it was the place of…

The scientology-protestor Anonymous are not the same animal as the /b-tard Anonymous anymore. There's some overlap, but the protestors are in it more from a sincere conviction of doing the right thing than for the lulz at this point.

Does anyone know for sure that this guy had ill intentions? The sparse details in the article didn't touch on the girl's motivations for ditching her home; for all we know she wasn't running to have illegal sexings with a WoW nerd, she was running from an abusive home situation. People are quick to assume the most…