@maggeimerc: I think they think it is too much trouble to specify audio devices vs. non audio devices and the whole thing is a big catch all statement. To tell you the truth, it probably would be too much trouble to make it more specific and to try to communicate that effectively.

@maggeimerc: I think it is because they are in reality concerned with the ability to give and have you receive audible emergency instructions during the two high risk portions of the flight. Books don't actually inhibit your ability to hear such an alert, cell phones and music/video devices can.

People always complain about electronic books during takeoff and landing too. People are allowed to read conventional books during takeoff and landing.

@CVDon: on a serious note, it would be interesting to see these scores broken out into "people who use phone as primary broadband/internet device" and "people who use phone as secondary broadband/internet device"

African Americans seem to like everything other than "Apple IPhone" to a greater degree, all at the expense of the "IPhone" score.

@daveinmn: being horribly stereotypical (bad CVDon)... i'd say from the flip flops, the fitted jeans, the stripey unbuttoned dress shirt, the ironic loose tie, and the artistically unkempt facial hair, he probably walks around with it stuffed in the front of his pants...

@I Think We're Property: I think I like your comment. You are being sarcastic to demonstrate a point and I think I understand exactly where you are coming from... a position of utmost respect for the indigenous people (and like) that this article is about.

I'm not saying that Bing isn't ripping off Google but I would imagine there is a good chance that any search engine would incorporate an automatic spell check... and in most cases return the Wikipedia entry on the search term as the first result...

@Yargnit: That was the "raging judge magnum" which is currently being sold, a 410 bore/45colt/.454 revolver, as opposed to the "raging judge" which is the 28GA shotgun pistol which this article is about and which was BATF classified during the SHOT show as an AOW, which will not be produced or sold in stores.

the photorecepters of the human eye are not arranged in a regular pattern or in a grid which probably has some advantages to efficiently using available "resolution". Also the receptors respond asynchronously and there could be quite a few advantages to that...

@Butters619: It isn't legal, based on a technicality of bore diameter. Even if it was there are far more powerful handgun calibers which are perfectly legal and have existed for several decades.

@Yargnit: The Raging Judge is different gun than the various "judge" revolvers available now. It is a 28 GA which is about .55 inches in diameter. This piece was actually classed by BATF at the SHOT show as a short barreled shotgun so it probably won't be sold in stores.

keep in mind that this was a prototype from SHOT show and the BATF classifies this 28 GA pistol as a short barreled shotgun, so don't expect to see one in a store or get one without a federal stamp.

@rebeldevil: That may have been true about 15 years ago, but now days Taurus is actually completely reputable and makes a decent piece and has a good warranty to go along with them. I've got S&W, Colt, Ruger, CZ, FNH, Glock, Springfield, Beretta, Kimber, Para-Ord, as well as Taurus pistols and shoot a hell of a lot…

Check out this Science Friday archive recording of their 1993 radio program where they discussed "The Future of the Internet"

@Phocis: hey thanks for the tip. I never heard of feelmax before.

I'm interested to see what Vibram pants will look like.

I have some, I use them for hiking weekly in the summer. I view hiking in these shoes as an activity unto itself.

So it probably just smells like burnt metal filings, salt, diluted bleach, and dry pancake mix.

@topsully: Maybe in potential but for all of our reasoning and survival abilities, we continually and electively do a lot of stuff which is totally not good for ourselves, so I think we break even.