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Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple tried to patent the number 4

It would take a lot more than a video to sway my opinion; any video is far too easy to fake (even in the 90's). It also doesn't do anything to assuage my skepticism about the undisputed facts of the case:

You have to be super-skeptical about this kind of thing. First off, there have been examples of non-scientists making claims about new technologies they have discovered (that have even been investigated by defense contractors and NASA) that have turned out to be total bullshit. Take a look at John Hutchinson and his…

I would say a "power user" is someone who has a lot of experience with a piece of software, and can do everything the designers of that software expected it to be able to do. I don't think programming experience is relevant to the term.

I totally disagree with the authors assertion coding is not an essential skill we should be teaching to our children; because they are not likely to use it in their daily lives.

My first thought as well. Even more likely: what if they are careless and lots of people get infected? Someone at the Hospital fucked up on this one too.

Yeah, but it was Friday and I am sure as a Gizmodo blogger, Sam Biddle had a private jet to catch for his weekend excursion aboard his private yacht, the SS "Dozent Prooof Reed"

seriously, I can only imagine that Gizmodo (and all Gawker blogs) are all the more profitable from the money they save not proof-reading anything before they post it.

~Kevin

What? No Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III?

I feel like I could outsmart this inanimate object by filling it with worthless boring rocks instead of exciting toys. Hehe, stupid bag...

Damn you Gizmodo! You don't joke around about things like that! I feel like the price for telling Star Wars fans that a "real" light-saber has been created, when in reality its a unless tube to shine a laser down, should be 1,000 years encased in frozen carbonite! Or a few minutes with Jar-Jar binks....whatever....

And on that note: didn't they also pretty much prove the opposite of this articles headline?

I feel like the difference between the headlines "Infant killed by playful lion" vs "Infant killed by hungry lion" is really just a semantic one...

No, that wouldn't quite work either. I'll admit that it would kinda work, some of the time, but as I am sure you know, RSSI doesn't actually measure distance, it measures signal strength. Now, I get that you would probably know the signal strength at of the source, and you could assume that the signal strength falls…

No, it couldn't. You could use Bluetooth to establish the file transfer between devices, that could be easily done with WiFi as well, or even over 4G using something like drop box like the article mentions. Bluetooth won't tell you when the devices are close together, let alone when they are touching and what their…

I really like this idea, but the problem is that it requires new hardware to be built and new standards to be implemented. I researched the Sifteo Cubes that this mock-up was based on, and it requires a set of EM or Infrared sensors to detect when two items are touching. Obviously computers and mobile devices aren't…

Ok, I re-researched the issue, and found that I was incorrect about ownership of the physical cables. All the more reason we need good net neutrality legislation.

I think what's important for consumers to realize is that we (collectively) own the physical cables that cable companies utilize to bring their services into our homes. When cable companies act up like this, I think it may be time for consumers to give them a much needed wake up bitch-slap by starting the process of…