@Dan Del Rio: The world has pretty much completely moved away from the in band signalling that made phreaking possible. Grammer correction: "phreaking is" should be phreaking Woz

@Go Vols!: Um, most photos captured are of things that a bullet hasn't sliced through.

@Bramsey89: Guns go bang bang. Lazers go pew pew.

Capt. Captain. Captain Captain.

@Standish: mommy is right. *backs away smiling and trying to look as inoffensive as possible*

@Anonymoose: no way did High school students in 1992 say 'Oh snap' this is a recent perversion that must be stopped.

@Standish: It is the crazy person wielding the floppy that inspires the fear. And so I have to assume that you're bat shit crazy...

I prefer beer goggles. I get foamy goodness and you look better. Everybody wins.

Penny-wise and pound-poor as my Granny used to say.

@mrm: Heh, your avatar is a coffee cup but it has vanilla latte inside. Now that's ironic.

@Guard: because apple is all about open standards. You cant have flash support only open HTML.. and 10,000 apps because apps are open and flash isnt. Or something...

So the people that answer the surveys that marketing departments use to support decisions like 'new coke' are a bunch of self selecting mutants?

@Michael Borders: It's kind of sad that you're associating the word civilised with the kind of over the top oppressive "security" that has become the norm in the US and many other places.

@goodbyebluesky: I was thinking glass and imagining little tiny glass bottles.

@cowboybebopfan: Three points

@cowboybebopfan: 'Public' means he probably broke no privacy laws. That doesn't mean a sufficiently motivated DA couldn't find something to bust him on. Not that I would know.

Apparently Gizmodians are passionate about beer and toilets. Who'da thunk it?

@Christian Lindfors: No, my future has implanted lazer projectors that insert the image directly on the retina. Touch? What's that? Natural gestures dont need no damn screen!

Nah, I'll stick with gas. Sure it's primitive compared to this but, so is my repertoire. And there's something about cooking with fire that is just more satisfying.

@madra: I was going to say should the question be: what do you think the most important tech invention of the 21st century will be? We've barely started this century, but its going to be fantastic.