I remember seeing this thing when going to Moffett with my Dad when I was a kid. Makes me rather nostalgic to see it again.

I think the google wallet idea is interesting, so when I decided to change carriers and phones a few weeks ago I looked for NFC phones. Problem is that the Nexus S is really the only one right now, and while it's a nice phone but unforgettably didn't have specs/capabilities that where higher on my priority list. …

Well, if you where going spend the cash on a cell w/ plan anyway it doesn't really factor in. Plus, I think they had a sale going last week on 1 or 2 carriers where you could sign up and get the nexus for free.

Excellent! And I'm not trying to argue that more guns fixes gun crimes. If I was, the logical conclusion would be start issuing sidearms, to professors and maybe even students. Given some hardcore liberal instructors that I recall from college, I may find the idea amusing, but I don't think it's a good idea let…

Certainly not the majority, but I know a couple that do.

Well said.

Hey, I never said a warning system is a bad idea, it's a great one, just difficult to implement. And I remember reading about the professor you mentioned, I believe he was a vet, now imagine how things might have gone differently if he and other professors had been allowed to carry.

With a 9mm, like in the original VT incident, I'd guess about 20 seconds. A few shots in/around the handle and a good kick. With a shotgun, less time than it takes him to lock it. Not to mention that we're talking about dorm rooms here. Repeated well known room layouts with paper for walls and doors. A few…

I translate that title into "Food companies trick consumers into eating fiber".

I agree, the systems are impressive but imperfect, and more IT funding is always a good thing in this tech nerds opinion, but sudo jokes about more public shootings, campus or otherwise, isn't funny.

Right. Campus Cops. Sure. You know the police waited almost half an hour before entering the school in the VT incident don't you? Doesn't fill me w/ confidence when my so called protectors strategy seems to be waiting for my assailant to run out of ammo. Defense is a personal responsibility, one people need to…

Old tech. I used one of these for lightsaber training a long time ago.

Your assuming that the IP protected by these patents is meaningful, which unfortunately it's not. In an environment where everyone's patents are so vague they apply to everyone's stuff (which most of these software patents do), it's about numbers. I have 5,000 patents and you have 5,000, sue me and I'll sue you. If…

I don't really see your point. David Drummond's complaint is a legitimate one. Brad Smith's counter is meaningless, as the only defense in this stupid patent warzone is the threat of counter suit thanks to your own patents. Therefore, co-owning these patents that they needed for counter suite with the very…

What would have been the point of going in w/ the others? They're already being attacked w/ a silo of ridicules patents. They needed something to shoot back with, and co-owning the ammo doesn't work so well.

I think the same could be said of any new online social system that shows up today or for the foreseeable future. Your exactly right, during the first couple of years, marketers didn't know/understand how to utilize facebook, twitter, ect. But they've learned, and going forward they're going to attempt to utilize…

So they took a bunch of fairly popular open source platforms/software and compared them on the level of openess. I get how that can be interesting from an academic perspective, studying the nature of open source software, but in the real world, where these are all vastly different pieces of software used for very…

How come all the Superman suits lately look like they're made of scales? It would be a great look for Aquaman, but Superman, not so much.

He takes it off at the end.