When I'm on the road, I often I make heavy use of the smartphone to provide GPS w/ Google Maps and streaming audio to the car stereo. So strictly speaking, on a trip that's about 14 hours each way, the smartphone would win. But when I'm chillin' at my destination, I'll have the laptop on.

I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll down to see someone call BS on this. Wish I had mod points now.

Sounds good but I'll wait a few years.

Most hairstylists are women. Should we wring our hands about that too?

Because everything else our glorious government tries to control turns to gold.

If every 3-letter agency in the federal government wasn't so busy spying on us, I might get it. But nowadays, I don't trust anyone from Washington.

I won't. Hopefully more and more people will learn what they're doing and choose to shop elsewhere as well.

If I had the resources, I'd immediately launch a competitive, cross-platform VOIP/video service that plays nice and clean up by poaching Skype customers. It would take a massive, worldwide marketing campaign and lotsa servers and bandwidth, but the market is hungry for a competitor and this is a great catalyst for one.

Not yet, but they're working pretty hard at it.

I wouldn't call the guys who wrote the best search algorithm known to man "lousy" at what they do. Perhaps unconventional, but certainly not lousy.

Sorry to say, but the business model at Dell is changing and they no longer offer much in the way of customization. They are actually moving away from Just In Time.

Over decades of gainful employment I have signed up for health insurance plans numerous times. I've never, ever, been asked any questions about my health or anything else for that matter when signing up for health insurance at any employer.

The author says "big data" is ruining healthcare. Who are the assholes taking over the system in the US? It's our BIG FUCKING GOVERNMENT with that albatross OBAMACARE that's causing people's plans to get cancelled and rates to go up.

And therein lies the problem. Obama gets a free pass on everything. The poor guy just doesn't know what the hell his own administration is doing. IRS? Clueless. The Obamacare meltdown? What meltdown? Benghazi? What's that, a drink? ...

It sounds to me like it sucks pretty bad, especially with all those freezes you mentioned. I think Canonical can do a lot better. What you described sounds very disappointing.

In other words, "global warming", now called "climate change". Junk science and perhaps the greatest hoax ever, complete with expensive policies pushed on us by greedy politicians.