I've been using CleanCare which comes with the screw-tops. Thank goodness for that too, since I've had at least one or two accidents with Bausch&Lomb's travel bottles.

In some applications the touchpad may be useful - selecting items in an inventory, for example, can be faster using the touchpad rather than the D-Pad/sticks. Where precision is necessary, e.g. specific location on a map, then the touchpad may not be very helpful - surprise me. :)

Right - I have to agree with that. I think the confusion was that I isolated the "actions" of 1) talking and 2) doing - both of which I was in support of if any sort of result is desired.

Monetary Value's point (I think) is that despite the (slight) relation to games in the subject, Kotaku isn't necessarily the best place for such articles. The generally non-constructive comments are a testament to that. Talking about the issue is indeed important (not sure why MV said it isn't), but doing it in a way…

It's one thing to draw awareness to the issue. It's another to do it in a counterintuitive way.

Perhaps - I'm not saying that it's definitive. But in this case, I would think it's likely that there are more unique views compared to the topic that you were referring to, which is what they seem to be aiming for.

I would think revenue is the driving factor here. Considering that she doesn't reply to even the constructive comments lends to believe that these articles are mainly for agitating readers.

Does The Onion have some kind of a celebratory alarm that goes off each time someone takes them seriously? Sorta like the "Easy Button", but more sinister.

Yeah, it seems small enough to be rather convenient. I was mainly intending keep it around in case of emergencies - I don't normally run into battery issues on my phone (Galaxy S2). For a laptop it *might* be a little handy, although I doubt that it'd last very long.

That's nice to know, thanks! I've heard that these were rather handy back during Sandy, so I figured it might be a good idea to pick one up.

Does anyone have any prior experience with this that they can share?

Perfect segway into an article for an improvised fire extinguisher.

*whoosh*

1. In that case, CCleaner might be a better solution. I like OnyX in that it's a one-shot fix.

(Note that I'm not familiar with the programs from the bundle; I'm going off of the descriptions)

Woot is owned by Amazon.

10th is Yousuke (Persona 4). There's his headphones and red/white shirt.

Not necessarily - running multiple VMs then opens up the possibility for co-residency attacks. Here's a fantastic paper on such attacks that I found a while back:

Not exactly. It sounds similar to side-channel attacks. Give this a look: