You're giving the government shit about a GAO report briefly summarizing findings on security issues with pacemakers? What exactly do you think the time spent on this report is trading off with?

Hey you know what else you could do while someone's sleeping? Stab them in the chest.

He said "I woke up this morning to find four tightly spaced emails from Amazon apologizing for the premature termination of our live chat session." I'm guessing those got sent because the scammer exited the chat as soon as he got the order numbers.

write your congressman

It didn't help the scammer at all; in fact it's why he got caught. I'm guessing he wanted to use a similar-looking email address to sell his story that his original email got "hacked" (in order to get the list of order numbers). Pretty dumb to alert the real user by sending the chat follow-up emails to him, though.

You think it's easy coming off as an insufferable douche? Nah brah, you gotta stay on that grind, keep coming up with new ways to look like a tool. Maybe if you had a maxed out Macbook Pro you'd understand.

You should apply. Thinking of a number? THEIRS IS HIGHER.

But at least they keep their home screens trill.

You know, until today I just assumed that the founders of Rapgenius were massive tools. Turns out Mahbod and Ilan are pretty cool.

He was talking about criminal liability. Few jurisdictions have corporate criminal liability.

I really wish companies would stop with the "We don't own your content! We swear!" charade. I mean, no shit, why would you want to? You own a royalty-free, transferable, sub-licenseable license that lets you do whatever you want with our content, including sell it to other companies. You've literally got…

I'm guessing that depends on whether the value gained from showing people like you ads is greater than the value lost from people like you quitting FB.

It's not an abuse of science until you pretend it's true. I think maybe it's the homeopathists who need to change their ways.

Adam Carolla has long argued that instead of dogs, police should use trained attack crows. They're airborne, have basically unlimited range, and can recognize faces. In packs, they could easily take down a fleeing criminal. Police dogs would still be useful for indoor use and for sniffing purposes. I wonder how…

You probably already know this, but you can sue both the McDonald's worker and the corporation. It's not either/or.

"Too big to jail" has nothing at all to do with corporations being "people" or not. If you have a problem with the government's selective enforcement of laws, that's an entirely different gripe.

Mint can't access my accounts because my bank uses two-factor authentication. :(

First of all, I should say that I did not mean to imply that PhraseExpress was logging keystrokes for some nefarious purpose. I have no reason to believe that. I just meant that my trust threshold is higher when installing a program that has such privileged access.

You probably unchecked the default "install sample substitutions" box during install. It was mentioned in the original LH article on PhraseExpress, actually: http://lifehacker.com/5611210/how-to-use-text-expansion-to-save-yourself-hours-of-typing-every-day. See the warning to delete the "Websites" folder?

I'm a little concerned about Lifehacker's endorsement of PhraseExpress. The program seems to work well enough but I find it hard to put my trust in a company whose program replaces my website urls with their affiliate links, without (as far as I can tell) any notification or warning at all on the website or in the…