Why can't they just participate in the International space station, again?

If you want to really be fair, if the announcer would have said "Brees isn't watching movies on his surface" about 98% of the audience would have said "WTF is a 'surface'? Did the announcer just have a stroke and use the wrong word?"

It would be the new Puerto Rico!

I watched the stream yesterday (well, as much as anyone could with how bad they fucked the dog on that) and was thinking the same thing - yet another "companion" device that has extremely limited functionality. I then got on my motorcycle and went to run an errand or two, and realized that having maps available on my wrist for a quick look here and there would be incredibly awesome, especially if the turn-by-turn is paired with the bluetooth helmet intercom I already have, and already use for that with my phone.

There's one use case I suppose, even though it's quite limited in scope.

Also, they said nothing about battery life, which can't be good.

Yes, the mouse existed before Lisa / Mac. No, nobody outside of a lab in Palo Alto had actually used one, until Apple completely redesigned the thing to cost less than $100.

They introduced the mouse that everyone uses, as in one that is actually attainable by people.

How is someone going to get you to put your thumb on the TouchID sensor while snooping the NFC radio from 10 feet away?

I'm pretty sure that if a payment screen randomly pops up while you're walking down the sidewalk, you'd have to be a complete fucking retard to put your thumb on the sensor instead of hitting cancel.

You can't just request cash from an iPhone and have it do it's thing - it uses confirmation through TouchID.

Dice.

I'm sure that the mining companies dynamite the entrances to the mine just as soon as they decide it's no longer profitable, and only mine Uranium and nothing else.

No, actually they just leave a hole in the ground that they can come back to any time they want to, or continue mining all the other ore in the same dirt, and just keep the Uranium around for when it's needed.

They're thinking that this Congress can't even get with the decades old plan that was already in motion, and can't do anything besides name post offices and bicker about how the other party is the problem.

The clock is winding down on this Congress, they're hoping the next one might actually get their shit together. It's stupendously unlikely, but they're gonna hope anyway.

That's because sodium hydroxide and ammonia don't use the scary word "nuclear".

Never mind that nuclear waste has been shipped around all over the place for decades - does anyone think the US Navy just lets that shit sit on the dock after it's removed from aircraft carriers and submarines?

Tape may not have the capacity, but it's designed for resiliency. No chance in hell this drive could sit in a safe for 10 years and still spin up. LTO can.

Or marketed towards people with real data disaster recovery or archival needs. Like businesses.

Go ahead and try backing put a couple PB onto rotating disk, and then expect it to last for 20 years. See how well that works out for you. I know how it will work out on LTO tape, because it's designed to do it.

The lights on the modem only mean you're talking to the CMTS on the other end of the neighborhood wiring, and that you were able to provision through DOCSIS.

If they fuck the routing over, you'll have all the blinkinlights in the world, but no packets get where they're supposed to.

They probably have a peering agreement for edge servers to lighten the load.

I get the sarcasm, but this outage almost screwed me - I was scheduled to work from home today so I could be here for a service appointment. With no data service, I can't do that.

There are real uses for home Internet connections besides porn and Twitter, you know. =)