Yet another article about how someone doesn't like what another person is saying and thinks it should be limited. It may be that we don't like the fact that the same channel shows news, analysis, and commentary, or that the lines of those are blurring. If you think it's a phenomenon of modern life, I direct you to the campaign that put Thomas Jefferson in office. The bottom line is that people will say all sorts of things. With the guaranteed First Amendment freedom to be one of those people, we all have the responsibility to be prudent in our consumption of information.

Wouldn't keeping radio signals in also have the unfortunately side effect of keeping radio signals out? While having a neighborhood coffee shop offer free wifi to paying customers while being an of oasis of cellphone-free peace & quiet would be sweet, having no cellphone reception at home because one desperately wants to prevent neighbors from stealing one's wifi seems very inconvenient (especially when setting up even the most basic built-in wireless router security would successfully do the trick in 99.9% of cases).

In Chronotron, you create a time paradox and have to restart the level.

Nicely done! Chronotron was exactly the game I was trying to think of when I read the summary.

I was hooked on that one for a while.

We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play. There are some cases out there, some legitimate-use cases -- that aren't just people that refuse to buy a modem or are crazy and weird and living in a closet.

I believe what you're describing ("all those gamers who live in a rural, dial-up only area") would fall under the "legitimate-use cases" to which he refers, and very clearly dissociates from the "crazy and weird" contingent.

Reading comprehension for the win?

Stupid git.

;)

Are you on drugs? The GP could not have summarized this whole thing in a more factual, less sensational way. So posing as a CTA supervisor & ordering train conductors to ignore stop signals when approaching busy subway stations doesn't count as "endangering the passengers" in your mind?

Look, I hate the black & white, "with us or with the terrorists" propaganda as much as anyway, but how about a little perspective on things? The facts here are simple: this guy is definitely an idiot, and some of his idiocy had the potential of injuring and/or killing a lot of folks.

Awesome.

Thanks for making me quite literally "LOL" :)

Same situation in Chicago. Earlier this year I met a girl who had the G1-HTC-Android-whatever, and asked her why she kept 3G turned off. She said Edge was fast enough for her needs, so she preferred conserving battery life over the higher speed of 3G.

I tried loading up cnn.com (full version, not mobile version) on both of our phones simultaneously - sure enough, her phone (with 3G off) smoked my iPhone 3G (with 3G on).

I was bitter.

You just described a vast majority of voters all across the political spectrum. I wish every halfwit would shut it with the political commentary now (especially since I seem to have a "Tell Me Your Thoughts About Politics" tattoo on my forehead that's visible to everyone but me).

I'm gonna go out on a limb here & guess that your Rorschach test answers would result in the psychiatrist raising this eyebrows, taking notes furiously, and asking his secretary to hold his calls.

No way, man! That's obviously someone giving two thumbs up, Fonzie-style. Ayyyyyyyy!

de-orbit - v.: to remove from orbit

If the ISS is somehow hurled out into space, is it still in orbit? No.

If the ISS is allowed to let Earth's gravity do its thing, is it still in orbit? No.

Now tell me, which do you think is cheaper & easier: to shuttle a bunch of fuel out to the ISS, then use that fuel to rocket that thing out of orbit in such a way that it flies off into space? Or to use what fuel it already has onboard to send the ISS, one module at a time, into controlled re-entry?

Please feel free to explain which portion of the compound word "de-orbit" explicitly points to "send out into space" as opposed to "allow to re-enter the atmostphere".

Your comment would be funny if the Internet were a big truck that you could just dump stuff on, but it's not. Sheesh, I thought everyone knew that.

Now if you'll excuse me, someone sent me an Internet yesterday, and I need to find out why I still haven't received it. I bet it got tangled up in all those commercial Internets that keep clogging up the tubes.