I love how it says "Accidents/Accidents"

@qrius: although probably a lot bigger than you need, and less useful if you aren't a student, take a look at the "Kno" tablet, it comes in *dual* 14inch capacitive screens with capacitive pen (opens like a book) as well as a single 14in screen version.

@FauxReal: the only mistake I made, at least so far, was Adobe and Microsoft. Microsoft might come out with some cool stuff that will save them. Not that they need a lot of saving, but windows phone 7 isn't doing amazingly it seems, and windows 7 tablets aren't going to work very well unless they announce an ARM…

@atrus123: I invested a year ago! up 34.5% since last october-ish.

*feels smart for buying Nvidia and Qualcomm stock a year ago*

everybody should go read "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu (the guy who coined the term net nutrality).

I usually love the shooting challenges, but am I the only one that thinks that sharing family portraits with complete strangers on gizmodo is a little weird?

it seems like it is really cool, but I can't really think of many scenarios where I would want to do this if I already have all of my stuff synced over dropbox. aren't desktop applications usually a pain to use over VNC?

pros:

weirdly and ironically reminds me of "pillars of creation" photo:

@mamunoz: beat me to it. is "steve" a techy guy?

@grysl: @vinod1978: are you implying that opinion in news is a bad thing? I kind of wish there was more, it's interesting and actually really important to see events from multiple different perspectives; but hey, that is just my opinion.

@Tycho Vhargon: I believe that when he was saying it he meant, allegedly, as a joke, but sarcasm isn't conveyed very well through text....

@prix: they just email you, duh.

when he says 80 seconds of 20lbs, is that a hypothetical example or something that one should actually do?

@Neeraj Verma: when we assume that all terrorist organizations are unintelligent and would be unable to figure out how the backscatter scanners work and find one of it's many flaws is when we *really* have a problem.

@matcintosh: backwards R

Personally, I am fascinated with how there seems to be almost an equilibrium of physical experiences becoming digital ones (facebook etc.), and at the same time, digital experiences becoming physical experience (this, kinect, 3D printing (!), multitouch etc.)

@mullingitover: usually I am pro wikileaks, but isnt it kind of easy to see why it could be interpreted as bad even? then what is the point of this release?

OK, I was all for the stuff before this, because the government was doing a whole lot of legitimately shady stuff that I believe should have been released. This, this is just kind of dumb, if it was someone the US trusted saying "we should attack the US here, here, and here" that should be released.