This feels like it is more equivalent to cropdusting your sibling.

USB3 instead of thunderbolt, because screw you.

1960 MGA had a piece of rope tied to the interior door latch mechanism, and you would fish your hand into that little square cut in the door handle and pull, or, more frequently, reach outside and open the door using that latch.

Kinda funny... kinda not. I do pay google for hosting apps for one of my domains, and that is also down at the moment. Not that expensive at $50/email/year, with just a few distinct emails on that, but not free either.

I have ben lead to understand that they can only do this when their target is potentially a non-citizen, and are required to toss anything that they collect from citizens. That was the reason that the warrantless wiretaps were allowed, since once the target was identified as a citizen, the content needed to be…

I'm going to assume that all of the products were delivered to foreign nationals, since otherwise it would require an explicit warrant to surveil an American citizen. Since the products are addressed to the recipient, if any of them were delivered to people protected by the Constitution, this is an obvious intrusion,…

Amazon pre-order for the Day 1 shipping was re-opened this morning at 8:00am. I haven't seen the main Amazon cart and store fail like it just did in almost a decade. Looks like the demand for this was higher than anyone expected. Might be the hardware failures of the PS3 pushing folks to XB1, and maybe it is the…

The difference is that this will never be "off." While this same programming information was originally available to your cable operator, the opportunities for direct marketing to individual users were more distant, mostly because of the way that ads are purchased. The XB1 is the first system I'm seeing that reaches…

Small issue not addressed would be the microphone. The XB1 might be reporting what shows people are watching by using audio fingerprinting, allowing themselves to target media ads better within their ecosystem, or even passing that information on to partners, depending on their final TOS.

Contraposition and truth trees. My professor loved this stuff, and 20 years later, I still use it (very infrequently) when we do architectural reviews. Yes, I can say that Huffman trees (or some slight derivative) are actually used by someone. The only thing is that he really didn't use a good example, and to be…

Rolling over Brooklyn as we speak. Even seems to have teeth at the front edge.

FYI folks, what this means is that on the day that Netflix offers these two movies, Amazon Prime users will also get access. Every movie that Netflix gets from EPIX, Amazon Prime users will get at the same time. Both of them will get new releases 90 days after they premier on EPIX for their paid subscribers.

If I had to come up with a crazy reason, I'd say that Steve Jobs may make a quick cameo, and it will be vastly easier to have any required medical support staff and equipment staged on their home turf than in the normal venue.

Wow. So you're the "app review guy" and you feel like it is your position to publicly humiliate a young developer? Considering your recent journalistic triumph of sucking one's own dick, I can see you're stuck in a pattern of worshiping yourself. Congrats, Casey. You've really personified that famous Roosevelt…

They can apologize, but hiring people who would do this indicates a sincere flaw, either in character or judgement, that I'd not want to expose myself to by spending time in their establishment. Apologies are certainly appreciated, but they do not absolve the actions.

Reminds me of Byberry State Hospital which we would run through as teenagers.

Looks like this is a 20" version, so while it is hideous, it isn't taking up your entire living room.

@disillusioned: Their serving in general will hold up, no doubt. However, I do believe that their infrastructure may have some chokepoints, like access to their customer service portal, or even hammering their 3rd party providers with support emails, which may cause mail issues for both Amazon, but more importantly…

Looks like Nickelodeon may be buying this.

I saw them at my stop at Times Square. They do look impressive in person.