The reverse happened to me. I purchased a large stack of legal pads only to get home & open them up, finding an iPad inside. I was pissed!

It's not going to win me over unless they automatically ring me up @ amazon prices. If I have to go through the hassle of printing out a web page, proving that item is available to ship within a certain time frame, etc., wait in a long line at customer service, and then hope they actually honor the price, I'll just…

A quick google showed that content style has absolutely nothing to do with this banning, and everything to do with Adrian Chen writing a profile piece on a prominent Redditor that frequently posts questionable content, a profile piece that may or may not reveal who this particular person is. (The reason for the…

Articles like this always bring out comments that make me think that Gizmodo's readership (or, at least their commenting readers) consists only of people who either think that Gizmodo is full of "OMG Apple said a word!" fanboys or "WTF Cancer wuz awesome y u cur it Apple?" anti-apple trolls.

Meth made with cheap 3TB drives will burn you bad. Don't try it.

Hah, "marginally" worse... you do an excellent impression of a trolling fanboy.

This seems like a low-cost non-solution to a major problem such that a large and out of touch bureaucracy would come up with.

This is why we need low earth orbit industrial capacity

Have you tried the newer pumps? They have continuous monitoring systems that alert on highs & lows based on readings taken every five minutes. That, with the pump, literally changed my wife's life and her ability to manage her diabetes without extremely rigid adherence to eating schedules. It's not a seamless…

I couldn't agree more. Heck, charge me an extra $1 even, and I'd be happy to pay it. It would also get around their silly piracy fears too: They could easily justify not allowing ebooks to be lent at all if you had a paper copy that you could lend. (Though, for the record, I don't think the lending feature is big…

This is very much not true. The marginal cost of producing the physical product varies greatly by book type & format. For our purposes here, where most Kindle content consumed is likely to be novels (rather than text books, reference, self help, etc., which have different production costs) the cost of the physical…

But it's the Kindle that is Amazon's loss-leader, with Amazon selling them at a few dollar just bellow or just above (depending on which analysis you find most credible) their cost of production. When Amazon was selling NYT best sellers at a loss for $9.99 on the Kindle, it wasn't to make a profit selling Kindle…

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I like to think that sitting somewhere in the Vatican is a great big box filled with stone dicks from the anti-penis rampage.

Proof that Jesus wasn't just a man

It's the first square from which the Borg will eventually grow.

I read that Buss Aldrin was pissed that Neil was chosen to step foot on the moon first, and in retaliation refused to take photos of Neil: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/the-path-dependence-of-astronaut-walks.html

Or risk-free number giving in clubs/dating etc— preload with your number and 30 pre-paid minutes, and give it out as a way to later connect with the person you met, but the 30-minute time limits means that you can do a phone "date" conversation before providing permanent contacts. If you don't hit it off, just let the…

Surprise != outrage. So, am I surprised? No. Am I outraged that an elected official responsible for helping to make policy about such things is so poorly educated & informed? Yep.

Jump in, it's a great game. Much less grindy and more story driven than any other mmo I know of (still some grind on pvp gear, admittedly) So far, new content delivered as promised with more in the pipeline, and bugs have been in line with other launches I've seen, and fixed promptly.