I feel like the author is missing the point here — Qualcomm isn't arguing that their processor is able to connect to the network faster, they're highlighting that they're enhancing usability of their phones by doing things like work on developing faster network standards while their competitors are just cramming more…

I feel like the problem with these essential rooting apps lists is that often, the apps listed are sort of meta-apps for the process of rooting. I mean, is anyone really excited by the busybox or superuser apps on their merits as apps? Even setCPU and Titanium Backup seem to stray a little into that realm. I like the…

This is awesome — can you lifehacker guys give the folks at gizmodo a refresher rundown on how to actually report on devices?

A lot of people I follow on twitter were doing that. I bet it's a large part of the issue.

The problem is that funnyjunk's business model is to infringe on copyright. It's not as though they bill themselves as a site for people to create funny content and upload it to — it's a site to post funny content you find on other parts of the internet. If they wanted to take a stand against copyright infringement,…

I've just never been able to take David Pogue seriously because I saw him speak at an event one time and he quoted that hugely disproved study that said wikipedia was more accurate than the Encyclopedia Britannica. I don't feel like there's anything significant that could be explained to me by anybody who's clueless…

If you click through to the iFixit source article, this isn't the tracker from the reddit user that this article claims it is. It's from someone else entirely.

Stories like this just illustrate the degree to which it's absurd what people can patent. Just because you can word it in a way that's a little different than other people doesn't mean you invented sliding lockscreens or multitouch or black bezels or whatever else one company has claimed another stole.

I feel like when you get to the point where your "car" has both a custom rocket and a jet engine, it's kind of a stretch to even call it a "car" anymore. It's a rocket powered jet that just never takes off.

You can make a more permanent and less, I imagine, messy version of this by getting a small amount of conductive thread and sewing it through the tip of the finger. I don't know anything about conductive thread but I definitely read this somewhere — possibly on Lifehacker to begin with.

I feel like there's so many bike components with bottle openers on it that starting a kickstarter to fund development of another one as if it's something new is a little lame.

I find this to be a sort of heteronormative and macho post — what if I want to sit on my girlfriend's lap? Does the chair support that too?

It's because they thrive on the insane lines and having their products be tantalizingly hard to get when they first come out. If just everybody could go out and get an iPad, the thrill would blow over way faster.

What's your big complaint with office:mac 2011? I find it much preferable to Apple's Pages application, and pretty preferable to the windows office to be honest.

Now granted, I don't own a tablet so maybe I take it for granted that I'm going to find them stupid in most situations — but still, it feels like that should be pretty obvious here. A phone can pass in a situation where you don't want a device to be blatantly drawing your attention, but a tablet can't.

I don't think this is a big question at all: Author was being an asshole and is trying to make himself feel better by acting like it's some bigger social problem. As said in the piece, a phone would have been passable but having a tablet in that situation is stupid. There's nothing more to it.

... And how is this story the same as those? There's no personal responsibility — the thing we're trained to do in emergencies from a young age is call 911, and if Verizon is going to take on the responsibility of being a phone carrier, they need to live up to the expectation that this integral function CAN BE…

I still don't understand what the difference is between "new every two" and the regular upgrade pricing someone gets for signing a contract renewal. Can anyone explain it to me in a way that makes sense?

@rjdub: Yeah, except that it's been proven that there's NO risk of gadgets interfering with the navigation systems. The idea that an airplane in this day and age would be built with electronic systems unshielded is absurd. The airlines openly admit that it's just so that people will pay attention to the safety…

Back when the droid eris was waiting for 2.1, there was the rumor flying around that this would let you check in for the update. I *COULD* be wrong, but I'm almost positive that someone proved that this doesn't actually check for OTA updates, but rather re-registers your system build fingerprint with the market app. I…