See that little SW Randall Toyes and Gifts sign in the background? Best toy store in the city. Totally worth visiting if you're in downtown.

"Edward the Less" was about the perfect length for a fantasy parody.

I think you're confusing it with the Codex of Alera. A book with a sprawling and captivating setting, interesting characters, and things actually happening.

It encourages people to not use Java- that's innovation to me. Java was honestly a bad choice for Android, both from a technological standpoint and from a business standpoint. It's not really fair to say, "Well, sure, Google made bad choices but patents are stifling innovation!" It's like Google broke into somebody's…

There was no formal agreement with Sun, however. A patent owner is not compelled to enforce their patents, but just because Sun was lax with asserting its rights does not mean that Oracle is compelled to do so. The blog post from Sun has no legal weight whatsoever. If anything, it hurt's Google's case- it's further…

There very well may be, although I find that pretty doubtful. Regardless, we haven't found that algorithm yet, and there's no evidence that such an algorithm actually exists. It's very likely that there isn't one- human faces have certain regularities, but there are so many variables.

Biometric authentication is terrible. It will always be terrible. Humans, who have invested millions of years and a huge portion of their incredibly large brains in developing facial recognition wetware cannot perform facial recognition reliably. And we expect to make computers that can?

Rory punching Hitler? WIN!

Fun fact: this is the second time I've come here to see a video and found that there is no video to see. Checking the DOM, I can see what I'm looking for, but with a CSS style that hides it. Presumably, there's supposed to be a bit of javascript that unhides it at some point, but that isn't executing. Using Chrome. #bu…

Um… you hang out with the wrong people. I've had great discussions and hangouts with my close friends, and I've made a slew of entirely new friends because G+ makes it really easy to stumble across interesting people.

Do you have security guards at the local mall frisking people for stun guns? On the bus? The purpose of the TSA is not to turn aircraft into some ultimately safe place where nothing bad can happen. It's to be a security checkpoint to ensure nothing disastrous happens.

While it's always fun to mock the TSA's incompetence, I have to ask: do we really care that a stun gun got onto a plane? "Let me into the cockpit or I'm going to start giving the flight crew really nasty shocks. I'm serious. Don't push me! It might actually kill someone of they have a preexisting condition! I'm CRAZY!…

It reminds me of how depressing the start of Beast Machines was. Seriously, big downhill step from Beast Wars.

I dunno, my friends tend to have discretion. That's why they're my friends and not my acquaintances. And if I really cared- not that I ever do- I'd make it clear in the content of the post.

To bad. You can't. Even if no social networks existed, you wouldn't have that ability. Once you share something with your friends, you've lost control over it. Google+ can't fix that.

You're missing the point entirely. You're demanding a feature that doesn't do anything. Once you share something with a friend you lose all control over what that friend does with it. Your analogy to email passwords is completely off topic.

I look at it this way: there is no piece of software that is going to ever be able to defend against the fact that you have shitty friends. If you share something with friends, these friends should be able to tell when they should or should not reshare that piece of information. If you can't trust your friends with…

I'd honestly rather that Google not introduce a feature that provides a false sense of security.

Have you every heard of "copy and paste"? I hate to break it to you, but those two features make it impossible to disable resharing in any system ever.

I'm launching a class action suit against GMail. Google should have put more planning into their privacy settings, and such a system is utterly unconscionable.