Well, the email convention has saved us from this. See, anyone doing so will be assured of constant failures to receive emails. Having an @ in your name would be a crippling digital disability.

Possibly, although we currently have quite a few unarmed drones. To my knowledge, there are a lot of political/moral/technical limits to drone armament right now, and this might be seen as an easier way to "arm" a drone without bringing up some of the harder questions.

That is an amazing and horrifying idea. The only defense would be seeing the trigger, which would be difficult and time consuming.

Yeah, I am always worried about that. One day, I am going to wake up with Tim Cook standing over me with an offer I can't refuse...

The concept of a watch as jewelry certainly supports this article. As someone who wears a watch to tell time, I can assure you that I would not be so happy with this one.

I have a 2009 13" MBP, and I have not experienced a problem like this. I will say there are a few driver issues that would probably not be hard to fix, however. Most notably, the trackpad driver is underwhelming. It is also one of the big selling points of a Mac. Coincidence? (I know about trackpad++. It helps a bit,…

It's no longer one of the deadliest, but I guess "worst" depends on which metrics you care about.

Nice, just finished a backup as I was reading this. Of course, I will probably wait a couple of weeks to upgrade, so I get to avoid all those fun launch day problems people will have...

Yeah, grad work definitely cured me of this problem. I still feel like I am faking it all the time, but it now feels like an appropriate sensation. The strangest thing I have yet experienced was the realization that I am considered an expert in a particular branch of science.

Yeah, they would probably be better off just dropping some GPS guided tungston rods at terminal velocity. They really just need to ruin the flight deck to make a carrier next to useless, why bother with a finicky weapon system?

There have been a lot of advances in drones launched from submarines. I would not be surprised if we see the rise of the cruise missile submarine-as-carrier some time in the near future. It has some major limitations, but it would provide a stealthy way to launch air attacks with short notice.

I think he was referring to MagSafe. But I like MagSafe, and I would rather have it than USB. Now if they could make USB ports work like MagSafe...

Yeah, and it is definitely not an overreaction to ban them from clinical research. If they cannot play nice with the oversight committee at the university, they most definitely should not be allowed to work with patients. The whole point of those committees is to know what experiments are going on so that they can…

Yeah, I had a pair of Shimano road pedals (SPD-SL) on my bike for harder riding, but when I commuted on that bike I just rode on them in normal shoes.

I have never seen those, but you can find some very attractive SPD compatible shoes. A quick search found me this pair, which I think look a lot classier than those DZRs:

There is plenty of reason... Is there a USB port out there that transfers audio and video via dedicated pins with no need for driver support? The 30 pin connector may be annoying at times (I wish I could charge my iPhone with any USB cable), but it does serve a real purpose, and it is one of the reasons the iPod and…

They would actually need to add more pins to support USB 3, which does bring up an interesting point. In reducing the number of pins, are they committing to USB 2 for a significant period on iOS devices?

I imagine they expected the big draw to be the rock-bottom pricing, so the added $50 would not be much of a draw. They may have misread their target audience though; generally people looking for the Nexus line are more tech savvy and see the value in the extra space.

Yeah, Audacity is a different beast, and great at what it does. I know a few professionals that use it for certain tasks.

Dell was selling Ubuntu notebooks for a while. They had good initial success, but things tapered off and they stopped offering a couple years ago. I think they could have done better if they updated their offerings as new releases were being made, instead of holding to the LTS. After a while, it did not impress people…