Trust me, I’ve posted dumber, but not by much. I’m sorry.

I have now. I’m sorry.

Hello, Gizmodo,

You’re correct, of course. It was an inappropriate flip comment, posted without thought. Mea culpa.

Thanks for the bluntness. Unfortunately, Kinja doesn’t let me delete or edit the post, so it exists for posterity. It was ill conceived, to be sure.

It seems the lessons of The Fappening have been forgotten, but bottom line is that if you don’t want people to see nude photos of you, don’t take nude photos of yourself.

I wonder if it’s a left turn thing (right turns in the UK)? UPS did a study and found that it was more effective to make three right turns to go around a block than one left turn across traffic.

Before we get started — horror stories are always fun, but as a counterpoint I’ve ridden Uber (and Lyft) well over a hundred times, and the worst ride I had was when the driver took a wrong exit and ended up waiting in a construction zone for about half an hour.

If I’m going to spend a boatload of cash on this set, it better be 4K.

One thing that I read (back in the 1990s) was that CGI and special effects in general will look more realistic if you stick with traditional camera setups and shots. To paraphrase a certain movie, just because you can do something with a computer, doesn’t mean you should.

Are we ready for Westerns on TV again?

It sounds kind of like the premise of Andromeda. Not exactly, but kinda...

So much nope...

I’m not looking for a major movie crossover event, but it would be nice if the movies threw the TV people a bone every now and then.

Yes, I understand that. I’m merely wondering if the outcry would have been the same had the leak concerned the RNC.

So Wikileaks was cool when they’re taking down Bush and the Republicans, but when they do the same to Clinton and the Democrats they’ve hit rock bottom?

Thanks for the clarification.

Not bad advice, but the one flaw is that many files these days are already compressed, and so added compression will not gain any space advantage. Music files, movies, JPGs, Word and Excel documents, PDFs, etc. are already well compressed.

Possibly not. These days it is possible for a compressed file to be accessed faster than an uncompressed file. Look for where the bottleneck is — if the bottleneck is the USB transfer speed, then having a smaller file come across will be faster; and if the decompress routine is faster than the transfer speed…