Learned to drive stick on a 1990 Miata, in 1997, on a daily commute on the 10 Freeway into downtown LA every day. Quite literally a go-kart with airbags. Could barely get it over the Grapevine with a passenger without having the temp gauge start getting a bit red.

Meet your GOP VP candidate, 2016!

Oh, this is easy. Built this over the weekend, coincidentally. First new desktop in 6 years:

I'm pretty sure all athletic scholarships, by definition, are one year renewable, so in effect there's no retroactive scholarships.

Years ago I did the same thing. The kicker was that when running the shower with no head, you could see that the water volume was huge, but not much was coming out. So it was just a matter of deduction to figure out how to do it.

I used to run AOKP on my Nexus 7, until the latest JB iteration. I found that the multi-user setup in JB made flashing complicated because it jammed all my previous files into a weird part of the filespace, plus 4.2.1 is pretty good, so it wasn't worth the brain damage to keep using AOKP given the additional…

I'd love for cameras to get smaller, but physics indicates that's unlikely. But then again, I'm probably looking at FF for my next DSLR, and my favorite cameras to shoot are a Hasselblad and Rolleiflex, so I clearly value "sensor" size over all else.

Or, alternatively, you could use, you know, a camera to take your photos, instead of a phone.

My less than courageous tech prediction for 2013: Apple will lose ground in mobile.

I can only assume that NatGeo had their counsel look at the terms and found them wanting. This sort of puts lie to some of the articles online saying we should calm down because its nothing different or to worry about.

And we spent 40 years scared of these people?

Agree in full.

I've had an iPhone 3G and now a 4, and I've used the iPad extensively.

to be "fair," Madrid was in the same shape its in today, about 20% unemployment, and as an Asian, one sticks out a bit in Madrid, being less cosmopolitan than Barcelona. That said, the first guy got my wallet and gave it back after I chased him down and made clear I was going to hit him in order to facilitate such…

In my experience, they're usually that obvious. I was in Madrid in 1996 and had pickpockets come at me like mosquitoes. In 2 days, 3 attempts. It got to the point that I remember standing in Atocha station and watching them target me. One guy standing with back against back wall, ostensibly reading the paper. Another…

Ours goes to 11.

I've owned an iPhone 3G and currently use the 4 (still). I also have an iPad in the house, and personally use a Nexus 7 that I bought at introduction. So I think I have a decent handle on both iOS and Android.

Soledad - why does it seem that you're one of a few journalists who actually prepares for interviews and forces interviewees (politicians) to dignify the ridiculous and indefensible things they say? Other journalists seem to think their job is to be stenographer and report "he said, she said," which by the way only…

He was also the asshole in Breaking Away.

I've had a 3g and now a 4, and I also have a Nexus 7 and an iPad 2, so I think I can comment reasonably intelligently.