Here's the sad thing about it all: The sad state that we currently are regarding privacy and anonymity, we'll have to first loose it all, then suffer the consequences for it, and then hope to fix things if it's not taken to a level that's beyond repairs.

$10 and a box of donut holes says it's coming out of China.

Can't most 'hacking' be achieved with just a 'plain old laptop'?

Oh thanks. Faith in humanity restored. "97% rate of recovery"

At least the robots are using protection. Wouldn't want too many baby Roombas bumping all over the place.

So let's see, a metal penis wears my condom before me everytime?

I have the weirdest boner right now...

How about something that will put the battery back in and switch the phone back on when the asshat who stole your phone tries to resell it?

I keep thinking about the episode of VICE (HBO) when they traveled there with the basketball team and the "guides" showed them around the approved places. They stopped in this office with a bunch of computers and people were sitting at the desks but it was silent, no one was typing or clicking a mouse, they were all…

I think you are wrong. The cloud is not as fast as hardware. Many people use phones for work that require a lot of storage... I do.

I've got a 64gb sd card that won't reformat. Files come back after deleting them. I don't know why I'm telling you this. I just needed to get the pain out.

Dude, "tip (or tag)" is not the preferred nomenclature. Aglet, please.

Multijunction solar cells have been around since the early 80's

Stop calling HTML or CSS coding.

"The whole issue stems from the fact that the county Sheriff's office refused to accept 911 calls in 2002 due to a lack of resources." In other words... Republicans refuse to raise taxes to to a point where law enforcement agencies can answer the phone. If you want 911 to answer the phone. PAY YOUR TAXES. Or…

That's the justice system for you. If you or I had done this, we'd be hit with the works. if its a big company, they get a slap on the wrist.

Something like this should lead to criminal charges and massive fines. It actually led to a small fine.

Saying mass and weight are the same is like saying velocity and speed are the same. In both cases they are related by a common property, but they are not equivalent. They are not "the same".

Maybe the lady who did this had X-ray Vision, and was just restoring it to it's original glory.

This one's pretty close.