How dare you. The Sword is 10000 times greater than Kanye. He is not worthy to lick the toilets of these METAL MASTERS.

Too bad he doesn't live in America. Take the Fifth and be done with it.

@Dave:

@SilentShout: "Warcraft isn't culture, it's a business, and it distracts people from the real business of life."

@SilentShout: You know what makes people hate hipsters? The way that they preach an egalitarian moral relativism, and in the same breath damn those they disagree with. It's a goddamned hypocritical lifestyle. You're telling to think for themselves and choose their own culture and then turn your nose up because they…

@RJackson: I'm sorry dude, but people working in sweat shops making sweaters are underpaid, overworked and doing what they have to to survive. Scamming people on the internet is not that. Every culture knows that deceiving someone to get goods or money is wrong. It's in our genes. I simply refuse to believe the notion…

This is the most logical approach; I always figured they did something like SVD on a set of hash values. The hard part is getting all that data, though. I don't have the foggiest as to how they do it. I've seen this app pick up the name/artist of an annoying as hell smooth jazz *cover* in a * restaurant*.

So what *really* happened? Did it simply fail to sync because of the crappy connection, and thus get nuked?

@Homerjay has ABSA Fever: No. The Forbes number includes assets. It's about how much Facebook is perceived to be worth relative to how much he owns; although if he's giving 100 million to schools, he's clearly cashed out on some of it.

I was so happy when FF1 came out. Finally, something better than Mozilla as warmed over Netscape on Linux!

@bspence: And Starbucks and Starbucks and Starbucks and Starbucks...

@truthtellah: The east side in general is predominantly black. I'm just saying the map looks strange considering that DC is ~65-70% black.

I have a hard time believe that is DC. There's not enough blue. But I guess it appears more concentrated? My neighborhood is somewhere in that splotch in the middle.

#1: Really? You're going to brag about DDoSing PirateBay and believe you're not going to be subject to retaliation?

One thing I definitely am looking forward to out of better speech-to-text is it to be good enough where I can point it at talks/seminars/lectures/podcasts and have it suck all that in and stick it in something like Nutch so I can search....

@DingoJunior: This isn't a licensed product. You own the physical object. You can do whatever you want to it. Now, cracking the 'unlock' app would be a far more muddy proposition, but if someone emulated it, built custom firmware, etc, it's fine. To keep up with the car analogy, manufacturers don't sue people who mod…

They're going to try to throw their weight into an already crowded field? Funny. This is a personal use oriented thing for sure, so yea, it's going to be marketed to the youth segment. But let's be honest: that is FAIL. Remember Kin? There are two groups when it comes to this.

This isn't the "I need something to go to college with" crowd. This is the "I need something to watch movies on planes with and to look up stuff while sitting on the couch" crowd. It's not that an iPad is a replacement, it's just that laptops/netbooks are overkill frequently.

I like it, but I'll have to stick with something homebrew. I need eSATA for my RAID setup.

Instant search is *not* innovative and Google is not the first to do it. Everyone's just noticing because Google is synonymous with search. Anyone who does webapp development and knows a modicum of JQuery can do this...