Okay, there's no purple in the 4S picture, so you've definitely lost me. The iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 have the same camera spec-wise, the only difference is the glass vs sapphire cover. I don't think it's a fair statement to say that aside from the obvious flaws in the photo, the sapphire cover is better. That's like saying the car runs great except it stalls every so often.

Yeah, I read the article. I'm not sure you did though. Unless you mean better in some sort of artsy photography sense, because what I see is two pictures of essentially the same scene (shifted a bit). The iphone 4s has a very bright white area where the sun is, the iphone 5 has a bright purple outlining the same area. Forgive me, but I'm really not at all sure what you're claiming is "better". Perhaps you meant a different article?

You can't make the argument that it's as good as it gets when the previous version didn't have the problem.

No information on the test they performed whatsoever, no shots of the photos used, no information on how they overcame (or if they did at all) the supposed blinking requirement. This news site has a low opinion of their readers to not even include the simplest information.

There were 30 counts with the award of 675,000 so I think the OP is saying the 6 months = 1 count = 22,500. Still not a bad wage, but probably commensurate with the average (if not below average) /.er.

While I agree with most of your points, I don't necessarily agree with your conclusion. We are an increasingly mobile society, and that means that if we no longer have to actually do the driving, we'll be doing other things. For instance, do you really care if your commute is 15 minutes longer if those 15 minutes can be spent actually doing something? Heck, you can even catch a 30 minute nap if you didn't sleep well enough the night before. The advantage to driver-less cars isn't necessarily in the speed-up of traffic, it's the re-claiming of the time spent driving.

Fixed that for you. It doesn't take a lot of effort to be bipartisan when it comes to distrusting politicians, you should try it.

Actually, they're both correct. One is a reference to how business men used to wear mustachios to cover facial expressions, thus a bald-faced (or bare-faced if you really want to be originally accurate) liar was a good liar because he didn't need a mustache. Or so the legend goes.

A bold-faced lie is believed to be a reference to the typeface, something written in print for emphasis yet known to be a lie.

If I'm not mistaken both actually go back to Shakespeare, so I'll leave you with the pun, have it As You Like It.

So what you're saying is that the qaudrupling over the last 2 years WAS from the obama administration's continuation of the policy, but they didn't start the policy?

idk, I'm all for specificity, but that seems a bit nitpicky. Either way, they're cutting the data centers now, which is a great move for cutting waste since they're running at 27% utilization. Sad that it means cutting the jobs associated with those data centers, but at least it's a step in the right direction.

actually, scratch that, I think that's for water usage

hmm...I wonder if there's a way to get the data sent from the little port they installed on the outside of the house. Those scanners the power guys come around with are probably just simple IR, wonder if there's a way to figure out the control signal.

I'm really not sold out either way on this whole debate for two reasons.

1. I can't seem to find original data for all these claims (and if anyone has any please point me to it). I really don't like taking someone's word for it when the trends they're talking about should be simple enough to be observed by an untrained eye.

2. Global scale is a very difficult thing to deal with because proving cause is almost impossible. We genuinely haven't been recording this stuff that long, and we essentially end up with hypothesis of cause and effect rather than any real conclusion. From what I've heard it sounds like this is cause and effect, but again, without the original data, what kind of change are we really talking about here?

Quotes convey things sometimes...

Yah know, if we keep finding variations, we're gonna have to take another look at our "primate ancestors".