Do yourselves a favor and don't buy a HP laptop, even a shiny new one. In my shop we get in at least one totally dead HP a week, far more than any other brand. Those things go through motherboards like potato chips.

Clearly what he's implying is that somebody shot lasers at the tortoises which caused one to turn into a different species. Jeez, at least try to keep up. This is SCIENCE. The way you talk makes me think you haven't even purchased the fuel-economy circuit sticker to put on your car's gas tank so you can go 5,000…

Um. Maybe in this instance the camera would be better served by detecting when the subject is covered in blood and calling the police for you before the zombie child gets you!

It's the cleavage in boob plates that's always struck me as stupid. The armor curving a little further outward up top to make room for boobs made perfect sense, but trying to fit each boob in a metal dome just seemed very uncomfortable.

Wow. I'm glad nobody got hurt, and hope this doesn't screw over the show. Some insurance agent out there has just gotten the phone call that heralds a very very bad day for him.

The physical structure of his brain would be the same, but that's no guarantee of smartness, much less his degree of genius. The brain develops with use, so if the clone plopped down in front of the TV for thirty years he may have the world's most encyclopedic knowledge of sitcoms and not much else. It's a safe bet…

The Garand is also an unstoppable juggernaut of sturdiness. It's a safe bet that after the inevitable zompocalypse, M1s will outlive other, newer rifles.

Shotguns are terrible anti-zombie weapons anyways. You want to destroy the brain with one shot, and pellets just aren't going to do it. You could load slugs, but I wouldn't trust the accuracy of them at any sort of range, while a shotgun's rate of fire and ammo capacity are abysmal.

That's incorrect, as even a cursory glance into the civil rights protests could show you. Rosa Parks broke the law. The guys who went to sit at the whites-only counter at that diner broke the law. Peaceful demonstration can very easily break the law, because as soon as a demonstration proves even mildly…

There are dealers of weapon antiquities around the world, they're just uncommon and can be pricey. I have a wakizashi from the 16th century from a dealer in London that didn't involve an arm and a leg, and because US soldiers looted Japan of its swords after WWII you can occasionally find one in some out of the way…

No. The steels used in katanas are optimized for slashing, blended to give the blade enough toughness to hold its edge and slice through tougher stuff, while the core of the sword is a softer steel to absorb impacts without cracking. A fencing sword is subject to totally different stresses due to the fact that it's…

I find RFID to be the more convenient technology for the future; being able to simply wave your phone over something is a vast step up over having to fiddle with the camera. That said, RFID is far more complex and expensive to deploy than simply printing a big square on something, so I can see the benefits of QR. …

I support this new law and encourage everybody to start their own websites with a TOS that includes, "...and any member of the US Department of Justice shall purchase a dildo of not less than twenty-four inches in length and preferably named something norse like Thor or Mjolnir, and insert it rectally." Then wait for…

No, it won't. There is no navigation functionality built into iOS, which is a big part of why I got a droid instead. As much traveling as I need to do for my job, any phone I get has to have good navigation support.

The fact that it's exactly like every game ever made is in fact precisely my point; playing it up as a revolutionary step forward in MMOGs when it's really a coat of paint over the same stuff everyone's seen before makes little sense. But thank you for missing my point and calling me a jackass.

...which doesn't matter, given that Google Voice is better. Try telling Siri, "Navigate to apple store." and see where it gets you.

Yes, you get to explore the galaxy with a story that's just for you! (And the hundreds of thousands of other people who are playing the same character.) Other MMOGs are fairly rife with character-specific quests, that alone isn't a big deal although EA has taken a nice step further than most. In order to really…

When I was young and stupid and it was BBSes instead of Facebook, I was similarly cavalier about personal information. What'd I care, there were no real consequences to me doing whatever. Or at least I didn't think there were consequences, so effectively the same thing! It was all just a big online party. I shared…

That's because middle schoolers are idiots. I don't mean that in a 'kids these days...' way, but in a very literal sense, they're utterly stupid. I get at least one person a week dragging in a computer that is busy transmitting all of their credit card info to backwaterstan because their mouth-breathing children put…

The only thing they're inheriting is the absolute loss of control over their data. And the first time someone's naked cellphone pics winds up stored in someone else's servers and shared over the internet, they're going to start seeking ways to turn off their new magical future and seek some way to maintain control on…