I know it’s relatively unimportant, but I wonder what category they consider this. In this situation, it’s not really an issue, but at some point you know this kind of system will either be abused or someone will have a complaint about how it’s used (getting too many alerts, fear mongering, desensitizing, etc.).

I think usually an interviewer says “not to get into the specifics” as a way to clarify that he isn’t stupid enough to expect the interviewee to divulge some big secret.

yeah... not sure why this article is even necessary. there are more than a couple people who know how it’s set up, and plenty more who know enough about stage production to figure it out without ever seeing anything. The idea that it took “a decade” to come together is actually kind of embarrassing. He probably didn’t…

I don’t want to be alarmist, but I have a Syrian client who can only communicate with his family through WhatsApp because they are rightly concerned that the government is monitoring all other forms of communication. So WhatsApp has become for many Syrians the only way they know to easily communicate safely with…

I’m sure someone already said this, but: everything you said is actually great for us as moviegoers. For the most part.

This is a really great article. Glad you wrote it, glad I read it. I was talking with my father this weekend about similar issues - specifically transgender athletes. He was a high school athletic director and it seems that that issue has only recently begun to be seriously discussed at that level. He didn’t pretend…

Maybe I’m just being nit-picky, but something doesn’t create gravity by rotating - it creates centripetal force.

I just don’t understand how some people think that they get to be in a public space and dictate the actions of other people in the same public space. Other than basic rights and the even more basic societal standards of decency (meaning ‘don’t take a shit on the subway’ kind of standards), you don’t get to decide what…

EVERY month. This happens EVERY month. It’s not my job to look for deals, but I realized this about 6 months ago. Maybe there are exceptions, but in the past 4 or 5 months I don’t think they’ve skipped a month.

EVERY month. This happens EVERY month. It’s not my job to look for deals, but I realized this about 6 months ago.…

In this specific case, I think it’s right for the NCAA to not have one specific ball, because one specific ball means the NCAA itself is taking all the money. At least this way it’s the school and each school can make the decision how to use the money (and maybe one school would actually use that money to lower the…

So is it a mistake that this gets posted in Gizmodo’s feed on 1/18/16 after originally being posted almost 5 months ago? Or is it just an incredibly lazy way to get a few extra clicks?

I did “Youth in Government” in NH as a high school student. There were a few incidents where some people (one being our supervisor/advisor teacher) felt like our conduct on the floor of the House was a slap in the face to this sacred institution. Nice to see that the kids trying to change the state animal from a deer…

Oh, sorry, I was thinking one beer bottle. It’s probably possible if you use a few beer bottles strapped together. Never mind.

Wait, how is Sierra Nevada going to send things to space? I remember making bottle rockets in high school, but I don’t think beer bottles are going to be strong enough to get people into space.

Steve Jobs famously carried around an IBM Thinkpad when he came back to Apple. It showed a few things: 1) during the time he carried it around, he was saying that he understood he wasn’t making the best computer in the world and 2) when he did start carrying around a mac, he had more credibility to back up statements…

Sorry, not trying to be ‘that guy,’ but this was confusing me at first and I think it’s a mistake: I think each 19th century is meant to be ‘20th’ century. Because otherwise he discovered it in 1886 and then scientists purified it in the “19th century,” which would’ve been some time in the following decade at the…

I’m pretty familiar with asylum law. I think I can win that case. You usually have to show that the persecution was either by the government or by a person/group the government is unable or unwilling to control. I’d say there’s a strong case for “unable or unwilling” at this point.

The 6th suggestion is clearly the most effective. 8th might be a close second, but nothing is more unattractive/irritating than sub-professional level improv. Except maybe those people talking about their sub-professional level improv. Even a good person can fall off the path, but nobody can resist the disgust of bad…

Visually, this barely works for her. It's the kind of dress I usually hate and it seems like it would be good for most to stay away from it because pulling this off is an extremely high degree of difficulty.

"Innocent until proven guilty." In the court's eyes, she was still innocent. In the absence of evidence showing that she would be a flight risk - which has clearly been established at this point - this is the result of living in a democracy. Sucks in a case like this, but this is the rare case. The only solution…