You can get an eeePC netbook for $199 RETAIL at Best Buy...Best Buy!!! I know this is talking about desktops, but it just doesn't seem that surprising...

Come on, editors... "an adless app" or "an ad-less app" would have been okay, but this?

Google+ still exists?

"Hey baby, software predicted that we'd become friends..."

The annoying this I find about using HTTPS Everywhere with Google Search is that it won't let you click through to an image search right from your web page search results. Google should really allow you to do so, even if it took you off of HTTPS.

I'd have expected this to be news 5-10 years ago. I'd say if they're only taking a hit from the Internet now, they should consider themselves lucky!

As a precaution, you can encrypt the entire phone's filesystem. The Droid Pro, for example, offers this feature as a part of the OS. Unfortunately, for this to be fully effective, this means choosing a STRONG (ie long and complex) password with which to unlock the phone each time you want to use it, which may be impractical.

Slashdot might be getting a lot of unwanted traffic from Google search queries containing "13-year-old" now...

I feel bad for the girl who has problems with infertility, but is it really responsible to put your child at higher risk by having it grow in an essentially experimental situation, when you could just deal with your unfortunate problem, make the best of a bad situation, and possibly adopt?

Wouldn't they have to switch to Chromium? AFAIK, Chrome is not open-source software.

Hi, I am currently employed as a researcher at Fermilab. Funny you should mention the theory of the ether in this argument. It just so happens that recent experiments have revealed that we should re-examine the ether theory, and that there might be evidence for it (or something extremely similar).

Strange. Try uninstalling Unity.

I just Googled "Going Outside." FML.

I never knew that radiation was a particle!