I don't really see Square worrying too much about using phone built-in NFC to take payments. Their target customer, small and single businesses, will still be using Square's external card reader (magstripe or chip-and-pin) to plug into the phone, because a decreasing but still sizeable number of people will carry…

The current leading application is for jet fuel. Nuclear Aircraft Carriers have an excess of electricity but require a world wide oiler network to keep operations going. Connect your nuclear reactor to "one end" and the existing water filtration system to the other and an aircraft carrier could theoretically be self…

"Just another rapper we'll all have forgotten by next decade..."

If someone is going to follow you and spoof your home wifi just to hack your smart phone, then you have bigger problems.

vagina isn't a great term. You wouldn't go up to your wife/girlfriend/ect and say "whip out that vagina"

haha he said Tech N9ne, someone needs to expand their rap catalog...

Instead of viewing the top 1% as somehow grabbing all the money in the music business, think of it more like the top 1% being outliers to the music business. They are entertainers that sell a brand.

For millenia, musicians have made squat and usually cannot earn a living as a musician. It was only the extreme outliers…

I think for users like yourself, Android phones are a great choice. But you seem to have figured out things for yourself, so you aren't typical in my experience. As the IT guy at my company, everybody thinks its my job to solve their phone issues so I've handled hundreds (thousands?) of issues on both sides and I've…

We are forgetting about the writers of the songs. Pandora pays only .0013 per stream. So if it gets played 500,000 times, that's only a $650 check. If you and another person wrote it, that's $325 per play. For a half a million plays?? And they want to make it less than that.. Come on..

Seems simple to me: The notification center can be accessed without unlocking the phone. So Apple doesn't want data input tools available to any old user that picks up the phone and doesn't have the passcode. A calculator app doesn't really input data, but a note taking app (or any app with a keyboard) allows you to…

Tracking the number of pedos within 0.2 miles is extremely useful.

It's always astonishing to me the way people justify not paying for an artist's work. The internet goes wild when a corporation steals someone's design off etsy, or another steals a photograph without giving credit, or a t-shirt design but when a bunch of individuals want to not pay for music I see the most twisted…

Let me guess...you're a white guy?

Only on Gizmodo does a story about rich people literally funding a gigantic floating natural park get attacked by somebody because *fuck rich people*

An app not for the low self-esteem.

Except that their foundation does fund education. Nice try, though.

No, I'm saying that aborting a foetus to "save them from the suffering" of being autistic seems as disproportionate a response as aborting a foetus to "save them from the suffering" of (especially severe) teenage acne. Analogies, you know? They don't necessarily compare every single aspect of the analogy and the thing…

And: what happens when you have a so-called "normal" child who, for varied reasons, ends up not being a "normal" adult - and there's nothing you could have screened for? The whole idea of "difference as defect" is really distasteful to me.

First, thanks for correcting the other's use of the word retarded. Despicable word with such a spectacularly inhumane history.