WhatsApp was good enough for group-chat at a time when Google Talk couldn't even reliably deliver messages. Also WhatsApp is like a closed ecosystem with no support for third party clients, and in this method has forced growth by word of mouth. If your friends are using WhatsApp then you have little choice but to use it too.

Personally I wish Google hadn't let GTalk sit idle for so long because being able to access your messages from multiple clients including the browser is extremely convenient.

the rest of us saw it in green vertical Katakana

This sounds just what iFind was promising before they were suspended from kickstarter

Adjusting the timetable is a short-sighted fix. A real visionary redefines the meaning of late.

1. Any good media player will open the CUE and play the FLAC with track information. No need to mount the ISO.
2. The FLAC rips will take about half the space of ISO.
3. Any good CD Burner will burn the CUE back to a CD or create an ISO by uncompressing the FLAC.

With the Privacy Guard settings per app you can block failbook from reading and/or sending SMS, among other options.

Get over yourself, it's been 40 years since that film was released and any attempt to Google for the word "soylent" will immediately suggest "soylent...green is people"

Dr Cleve Backster believed that plants demonstrated telepathic awareness and perceived human intentions.

Unsurprisingly, in the 45 years since Dr Backster published this, controlled experiments that have attempted to replicate Backster's findings have failed and the theory was not accepted since it did not follow the scientific method.

In Australia, there are an average of 1 deaths per year from Shark attacks

For comparison there are an average of 121 deaths per year from drowning at beaches, harbours and rivers.

Furthermore in 2010 217 people died as a result of an assault and 1,503 died as a result of a transport accident (706 car, 236 motorcycle, 227 pedestrian)

Does that put it in perspective?

How is the toxicity of a CFL any different to the fluorescent tubes that have been used in Schools, Hospitals, Offices, and public places for the past 50 years or more?

If the situation was reserved, say the customers received £19.99 Tearaway after ordering a £169.99 PS Vita, they would be fighting to return it.

The customers received an item that was worth more than what they paid, and are simply being greedy.

5 million businesses on Google for a start.

New MIT Camera Takes 3D Photos in the Dark? Nope... see TFA

Even with this technology the /. editors would remain blind /rant

(emphasis mine)

I don't doubt the existence of this vulnerability, just the motives and timing behind disclosing publicly on this blog.

I was about to pen a witty reply when I realised the Internet had already delivered.