Because of the same reasons you read reviews to begin with... you don't want to waste your time investing in something unless you know it'll be worth it. Some people (justifiably or not) just want a quick thing that tells them whether they should spend time and money or not. It varies for people, but yes it's worth…

personally i don't know how any business can operate without a NUMPAD (I'm using that bluetooth keyboard now at home because it came with my iMac at work and I just took this home and brought my full-size keyboard to the office.)

He didn't ask why, he asked how much. How COME would be the same as asking why.

really? haven't you heard of the phrase "war is very good for business?" World War II got us out of a worldwide depression.

I get emails from real people that I have shared real email exchanges in the past. Then all of a sudden they send out an email to dozens of people (open cc'ed mind you, so I can see that they're being sent to real people including mutual friends) with no subject and only a link to a dubious website in the body. Two…

I think you and the other commenter missed the point... his comment was a criticism of LH articles and their readers, who often overemphasize leveraging the internet over the old way of doing things.

Sadly yesterday she was the one sending the spam. The attachment is the mostly likely culprit, because she doesn't torrent or download suspicious software.

How does 2-step authorization work in google when you're out of the country and don't have phone access?

I was also wondering how it happened at all. There was a huge surge of them this past week, and my fiancee is pretty conservative online, she doesn't really open herself up to such vulnerabilities (and not that it matters in a BIG picture, but she's on Snow Leopard and Chrome); she claims she never clicked on any of…

I'd posted this in non-open-thread articles and got no response, so hopefully 3rd time's the charm.

Incidentally there seemed to be a rash of hacked emails sending spam recently among my actual friends... no subject, just a link that I'm sure will propagate the spam.

Also if you're a little too vigorous wiping the blade on your pants you'll have completed a small step towards becoming a real woman.

Did you already die 4 years ago before they introduced the kinect?

(that's of young tom hardy, not andy. but i think the resemblance is distracting)

You mean Andy Samberg?

this comment is racist towards all people who have bodies below their necks.

Sounds like he's got a date with density.

Yeah the Robotnik is clearly the only one of these that really work because no offense to all these people, but there's a much greater margin of error for execution when you're going for FUNNY, otherwise it doesn't matter what you're going for, it's more likely to look SAD.

Recommendations for a power tool set for those in a small apartment?

Recommendations for a power tool set for those in a small apartment?