Wish granted, you can indeed have them hold it at a location, you can even do so online with your tracking number. Same with FedEx, I use it all the time, comes in handy.

$100 fee for not being bothered to learn how to set up a VPN, I guess?

Can someone explain to me what 'Beats Audio' actually means? I've been totally perplexed as to what the actual difference (hardware? software? both? just a logo?) is ever since HP started shipping laptops with this mysteriously enhanced audio.

I'd like to read this article you mentioned, I googled for it and didn't find it, but I did find this article: [www.clickz.com]

Wait. So you show a really young kid 9 minutes of sponge-bob and then tell them to do something else immediately, and are surprised when they perform poorly? I mean. I'm no scientist, but that seems pretty obvious to me, and kinda a non-issue, if all we're talking about is the short term.

Errr. Really? Hand a toddler an iPhone that is sitting on the home screen. See how far they get.

They aren't permanent. You put them up and remove them as dictated by the arrival of hurricanes. They are metal and durable sure, but they aren't meant to be left up like that, pretty dangerous to leave your house shuttered if there's no threat of a hurricane. The shutters themselves interlock, and the mounting holes…

Earthquakes.

It's the increased depth of the shelves and the revelation that this redesign anticipates this model of 'bookcases' to increasingly be paired with optional shelf doors and to house novelties rather than dead-tree-books that are actively read.

You're correct about the internet thing, it has been a year, maybe two since the average citizen was allowed internet access. Cuba *does* have good healthcare, in fact Hugo Chavez is going back and forth to Cuba for cancer treatments. The other thing Cuba has (besides dictators, sugarcane, cigars, etc) is a massive…

I think the first concession we have to make is to the fact that these are $25 earbuds. They aren't trying to be SR80's or K701's, they're an upgrade or replacement for people who have grown weary of, or broken/misplaced the headphones that came bundled with their mp3 player or phone.

You're trolling right? Because there is totally a commonly known and simple way for the average person to tell if their creatively marketed bubblegum contains lead, their tofu ice cream contains milk, and their produce or meat is contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria. You know, you just gotta do chemical…

This guy is my new hero.

Next up, a generator that runs on cheap beer.

I believe the 'calling 911' thing is part of why jamming cellphones is illegal.

[en.wikipedia.org] It's a reference to ye olde internet joke.

Could be an equipment issue, bandwidth issue, a provider issue (ustream), or maybe the aquarium didn't want them to stream HD as part of the deal, who knows?

Sure, if you've got the camera and a decent computer. I'm not sure about ustream, but Livestream will do HD. You stream one copy to the server, the server streams to all the endpoints.

I use Netflix exclusively for streaming and have absolutely no interest in physical disks showing up in my mail periodically. I mean, bluray is one thing, but now that I think about it I don't have a bluray player.

I think he is referring to the "Major grocery chains like Albertson's" as Luddites, rather than the people who don't know how to use the machines.