Never happen. Who wants to label their device as lacking a feature?

Yeah, I'm a little annoyed that my Nook doesn't support 5 GHz. It's basically the only reason I still keep a 2.4 GHz network running at home.

Yeah, I've had drives in my research group fail and lose a bunch of data, and then have their SMART kick in hours/days later while we're trying to recover what's left. Thanks a lot.

Well, it's the same ones who gripe about having to take liberal-arts classes when they went to school for CS or ENG. They see no value in such things.

Fair wage, wtf are you talking about? If I pay you any more, I'd have to cut down on my private jet flights to Tahiti!

HOW IS THAT FAIR?!

I got where I am fair and square, through hard work and fucking everyone else over! What's mine is mine!

--1%

NoooooOOOOOooooooooOOOoooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You, good sir, win. Seriously, submit this to someone.

Magic mouse. Still a mouse for mousey things, but the top surface is a 'touchpad' that replaces scroll functions, but allows swiping in any direction.

And then the atomized LSD that was stored in a tiny little capsule inside the iPad kicks in, and you get one hell of a light show.

Nice job not even reading what I said.

The UL works because an individual device design can have plenty of problems, so individual certification works. You can't "individually certify" a drug. It's a chemical mixture. Any one can make it, and any test showing safety is valid for all productions. I assert that no one company is going to bother with expensive testing when they are also certifying any other maker of the same chemical mix, and there are no patent limits. They'll just make their money selling to the poor and desperate.

I claim someone else owns my body? What the fuck? I claim that without government-enforced regulations requiring safety tests, there will be no real, well-managed, reliable tests (and especially not long term tests). I want a government with the power to require such tests.

Um.

This is broken because no company is going to want to front the money for the FDA 'seal'. It's not like it will magically make only their pills containing e.g. Compound X safe and effective: as soon as any pill containing that compound is approved, you know that any other pill with the same stuff in it is also safe/effective.

Beyond that, we still frequently find long-term side effects of approved drugs after many people have been taking them for many, many years. That's -after- we remove a ton of them that cause effects in whatever the FDA test periods are (a few years?) By allowing sales as soon as stuff is invented you just turn the poor and desperate into a bunch of unmanaged, unregulated, and unreliable guinea pigs. A bunch of poor (read: not rich) people take the new "Vy4grah" from CheapoPharm. Their dicks get hard, and then they all get horrible liver failure and die in 2 to 3 years. Maybe this shows up and we know it's shit, or maybe they're found dead in their homes and are written off as ODs or whatever. Or maybe it causes some chemical imbalance and puts a bunch of people out on the street to die in the cold. Oh well, just a bum? Who's going to do the testing to figure out that their unregulated ED pills killed them? CheapoPharm makes a bunch of money no matter what.

Why would they want to do the FDA tests? All it could reveal is bad things. If it is safe, then after fronting a billion dollars for the tests, MediDeal next door can put out the same pill, same ingredient, now certified safe, without spending their own billion. Oops.

Uh, per-room A/C is much more efficient for empty rooms, as long as the housekeeping staff is told to turn them off or way down when they clean up.

I'm really glad that I decided to try a toaster oven a few years ago. It's so much quicker and efficient for small cooking tasks, and does a lot of things much better than a microwave (leftover pizza is awesome). Plus it doesn't heat my whole apartment up in the summer. Between toaster oven and crockpot, about the only thing I ever use the normal oven for now is an occasional traditional roast (either a whole chicken or pot roast w/ a bunch of veg).

+1 ...I'd buy stock in it.

Wait, people were RESPONSIBLE!? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Why does it feel like we're desperately climbing up a rope that's already been cut?