If it's not a traditional anti-biotic, then maybe it could help reduce use of anti-biotics and prevent MRSA-type strains. This stuff should stay in the hospitals though. People are making themselves and their kids weaker to bugs with their anti-bacterial OCD.

The only thing worse than being easily offended, is being easily offended on other people's behalf.

Ha, I immediately thought of O Brother too

I just hope the Diaspora-style friend grouping in Google+ is forced on Facebook. So many people don't use facebook like they used to because it makes all your friends equal and makes it very difficult to see who you're sharing things with.

I forsee cookie tins becoming a new tool in the tinfoil hat-wearer's arsenal.

These exist in two forms already, and one isn't expensive. I wear Night & Day contacts that I only take out every 30 days. Have used them for six years with no infections or even discomfort. My brother has contacts that were implanted under his eyes in a 20 min surgery. They can be swapped out when vision changes and…

Every law passed grants new powers and new financing to the state. I can't imagine how stupid we would all feel if we were paying vice squads to pull stings on game stores to enforce this law.

If Joe Arpaio is in there it should get comical quickly. He's a notorious media hound. An AP employee in Phoenix told me they had a framed photo of a letter Arpaio's office sent demanding that AP add him to their list of celebrity birthdays. If there are emails like that in this leak it will very entertaining.

The best way to get teens to smoke is to make cigarettes even scarier to parents.

Creating good comedy is even harder than creating a good game, that's why most games don't promise to be funny. That said, dirty jokes delivered poorly makes me a little nostalgic for the days when all game writing was done by the nerdiest of coders.

People need to leave Senators alone. When they get spooked, they start passing very dumb laws, especially when it comes to technology. Trying to show off is going to result in new limits noone likes.

Just wondering how permanent the adhesive backing is?

Isn't posing a worse form of cheating? People are always pretending to enjoy themselves, so their photos make them look happy and interesting on Facebook.

People forget that patents, like copyright, are getting a first-amendment exemption with the intention of protecting and motivating innovators. When specific patent types turn into nothing more than domain-name squatting, they should lose that constitutional exemption.

Why not? This is the age that invented the Baconator and KFC Double Down. Technology even makes slowly killing yourself more enjoyable.

Yeah, the most important info this story could have would be what carrier they're using. Who's signal is that good on the border, out in the desert?

Sounds like he's made to be successful in the film industry.

Is it prejudiced to assume that's not a licensed copy of Photoshop?

The sad thing is I bet we paid like high-end future technology prices for all that outdated shitty equipment.

I'm in favor of keeping electronics on during takeoff, because I already do that. But, I'm opposed to a bunch of people yammering away on calls during the flight.