My problem here is that you guys (Gawker) are so consistently wrong on this kind of sensationalized stuff that I don't know when to believe you and when not to. Should I take the time to read this article?

Good point! I'd indeed forgotten about those. But I had in mind more something like sniper rifles. I mean, you're dealing with the exact same phenonema (hand shake) there, right? Steady-motion technology is by now well-understood — I use it every day in my Nikon VR lenses. Seems like it would have a definite military…

I've always wondered if this technology could be adapted to rifles.

That's long been (to me) one of the baffling mysteries of iTunes: Why "genre" is a single category, and not a set of tags. Let's just pick a random example: "Feelin' Bad Blues," from the "Crossroads" soundtrack. Is it Blues? Instrumental? Slide Guitar? Soundtrack? This is the *textbook case* where tags are better than…

Lifehacker's still pretty good. Although they went through a brief "FuCk, Gawker is the shiz yo!" period after @ginatrapani left. I think they've mostly stopped being stupid though.

Just sayin' what? That this was an important story, but throwing in some curse words really jacked it up to the next level for you?

"jackshit"

Certainly not the impression an outsider gets from reading the comments.

You may be OpenToTheFuture, but you are evidently not so open to, you know, reading.

When it comes to the phenomenon of "people grimly clinging to what they want to believe — facts be damned," I'm going to point to your post as Exhibit A.

I think it's fascinating the number of comments here judging Walker on his appearance.

This may be the most baffling comment in the whole thread.

Not to mention, The Real Unsharer seems awfully eager to peg his perceptions (i.e., that conservatives are not "hard" on sexual violence) on one data point. I thought progressives were supposed to be all sciency and whatnot.

So, I am of course curious.

Yes vast majority of college dropouts are very procollege he seems to be of the group that thinks "college sucked for me so to hell with college".

Hey enska, I'm genuinely curious — on what basis do you think it is "true"?

Yeah. I'm came over here purely out of morbid curiosity to see if those inconvenient facts would turn any of the typical Jezebal slavering into embarrassment.

You're right - my bad. Distracted on a Friday afternoon. But the point still stands — just substitute in Obamacare or whatever other completely irrelevant Obama-signed legislation.

Count me among those who really miss the very early days of Gizmodo, when this type of stuff wasn't (as) prevalent.

Insightful, and mostly spot-on. The Nazis (And the Soviets, and the Khmer Rouge, and the Maoists etc etc etc) were progressives to the core. After millennia of human floundering, this small group of visionaries had finally figured out a way forward! Through their guidance, mankind (well, the ones who mattered, anyway)…