Is the Statue of Liberty a lighting rod? If not, why not? Seems like a good use of her time now that she rarely has to welcome in seafaring immigrants.

I'm slightly upset that the Ambigulator won't be available until November. I've been looking for a weird, geeky gift with superficial function to give at my friend's wedding in a few weeks - this seemed a perfect "decision engine" for decisions with no consequence, as well as being crazy cool to play with.

@silkworm: Speaking as a fellow engineer and webmaster, the people who write the actual content on these sites rarely, if ever, have anything to do with the technical side. It's the tabloid journalism dept that won't be getting bonuses this year, the IT guys are fine.

@jpaugh: I've got a Milestone (GSM version of the Droid) and it doesn't really have that problem. The proximity sensor kills the screen as soon as you put it to your ear. Do you have the latest update? Maybe there is a software fix.

I've been using Live Sync Beta for about 3 months. The Beta ended and I was told to install the Live 2011 package a week or two ago. The only difference I noticed was that Sync was renamed to Live Mesh - everything worked exactly the same and I didn't have to reset anything up. I'm guessing that's because I've been…

Something better is always coming. Think about 10 years ago, NAND was around but incredibly expensive and not viable for mass storage, now it's a standard storage medium for every new device. It was only a matter of time before some new technology trumped it.

@blyan-reloaded: Glad I could be of service.

I gather from the quote that they are likely deleting the photo row from their database. Actually deleting the file requires one extra line of code which many lazy programmers just neglect: (Assuming their software infrastructure is PHP based)

[Insert Skynet paranoia comment here.]

I wonder if those ratings take internet streaming into account. SGU and Caprica are incredibly low, but I'd postulate that a large percentage of each show's audience watch over Hulu or one of the pay-per-episode services like Amazon Video. I did.

@OMG! Red!: @Homerjay has ABSA Fever:

This will certainly make it easier to take my ex-girlfriend out of my home videos.

@JakeMG: Waxing Pedantic: I am begging the same question. WP7 hasn't even launched yet and they've already got Netflix. Android's been around for two years+ and we haven't even got a confirmation of development. Sigh.

@Mike Zuniga is a Photographer Apparently: Sprint is CDMA ( [en.wikipedia.org] ) , it's basically just Verizon taking a pass. US Cellular is always late to new tech.

@willyolio: I'm not going to validate the heathens who responded to you without understanding the joke/reference. But I laughed!

Weird input interface there. The sensor is plugging into the MicroSD card slot on the G1. I wonder why they didn't use the USB port.

I've been trying to retro-ize a lot of my computer/audio gear lately, but it can be surprisingly difficult to find old audio cabinets or good-looking radios from the appropriate era. Usually they are cosmetically damaged beyond repair, or insultingly expensive.

@JakeMG: Waxing Pedantic: I tipped it on Thursday, though admittedly, not at Gizmodo.

This is going to be the worst Columbus Day ever.

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