I think you’re missing my broader point. They bill themselves as “investigations” so to a layman - and I’m not claiming any other status - these are PIs. Are they actually PIs? I honestly don’t care. You might as well nitpick the definition of “assault rifle” with me. Shooty thing goes bang-bang. Don’t care.

So the part on the logo where it says “investigations” is just a joke?

This is the most prominent of the companies in the area:

There are a couple of outfits near me that have guys that dress like cops, drive cars that are labeled like cop cars (complete with lights on top) but are “private investigators”.

Ahh, I gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

Wait, wait, wait. I’m going to be able to play Age of Empires II on my Xbox One?!

You say you cringe at the thought that some of these people have government jobs. Cringe, you should. I did tech support at Johnson Space Center in the early 2000's for a few years. Building 30, Mission Control. These people were literally - not figuratively - rocket scientists. And the stuff they’d call the support…

“When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you’ll give up your passwords...”?

And how would they get the master password? The only place my master password exists is my brain. It has never been written down, never been stored electronically anywhere. If anyone manages to get it out of my brain, I’ve got far bigger problems than just the loss of the password, because someone’s got a gun to my…

I don’t think using incorrect information is a bad idea if it can be properly managed - not because “OMG GOOGLE KNOWS TOO MUCH!” but because it defeats social engineering. If someone knows, or finds out, that the street I grew up on was Beckett Drive, but I’ve been using Samuel Drive as my security answer for years,…

I don’t care if someone downloads a game, or a song, or a movie. I did it, er, allegedly, in my youth. But there was never a time when I tried to justify it. It’s theft, pure and simple. I couldn’t afford it, I wanted it, and I... again, allegedly ;) downloaded some content. Then I grew up and got a job and could…

The majority. If you’re cool with just clearing out the majority of malicious content from things you download, that’s your business. I think I’ll stick with what I know to be 100% clean.

I’m not going to defend texting-and-driving, but that’s a dumb game. To say that nobody is changing lanes that frequently might sound like I’m missing some larger point, but really, nobody is doing anything that frequently while driving a car. If you were, you’d be crashing into something every time you changed the…

I don’t use it often, but then, I don’t have a need for any mapping app often. Apple’s is the one I use because I can’t be bothered to mess around getting another one installed and up and running - and it has always been accurate for me. On OS X, I’ve opened Maps when making appointments, then sent the directions to…

No, the io9 review will be pretty honest. The io9 commenters, on the other hand, will be taking turns sucking Zack Snyder’s dick.

Are you an Evernote user who’s thinking of making the switch to OneNote? Microsoft introduced a new Evernote import tool for OneNote just this week.

Your youngest daughter is lucky she wasn’t seen by anyone or she would have been pounced on by several large men with several large guns, I think. “WHAT ARE YOU BURYING IN THAT PLANT, MA’AM?!”

That’s amazing, I love it lol

Bartered items. If you and a neighbor trade an hour’s worth of yard work in exchange for help setting up your website, the IRS states that you have to report the market value of the service on your tax return.

Man, I hate it when those bold illegal aliens go around taking all our American personas.