Yeah, no. We don't have anywhere near the weapons tech needed to actually vaporize orbiting objects, it would just take too much power. All we can do is push them out of orbit, or scatter them into even more orbits as shrapnel.

It's a troll because it's insulting. It needs no other reason.

It's functional on IE 6. Which really doesn't do much for this guys geek cred.

It's how I heat my bedroom.

University of Utah has been doing haptics like that for a long time.

Every livery cab service in New York already does this. You aren't allowed to pick up hailing passengers unless your a medallion-holding yellow cab. Obviously there some convenience or efficiency advantage in hailing a cab or else these licenses wouldn't cost a small fortune like they do. I'm not sure why New York keeps squeezing the shield-holders like this, they get criticized more than enough for even having the shield system in the first place without forcing extra expensive changes on the cab owners.

Ignorance of the law would be no excuse if the code of law was rational, knowable, and sane. Like it was for the Romans who probably coined the phrase. We left that behind long ago.

I think they're using the term glitch to cover "bad idea implemented with a horribly flawed design and worse implementation".

Because most journalists look at you funny if you call it a wireless waldo.

Those sandboxing restrictions remind me a little of the restrictions already in place for applets.

Actually pawn shops have to charge such a large margin as a risk load to account for the fact that the merchandise might be stolen and get confiscated.

Actually I think it was IBM who came up with the 20% thing.

Sounds possible to me. On the other hand members of the LDS church have never been ones to let the "word of wisdom" as grandpa called it get in the way of more important goals in my limited experience.

Indeed.

Actually I think it DOES mean we have to get Photoshop ported. Or at least get the GIMP to the point of real feature parody in areas like high bit-depth and color management. There are entire KINDS of application stacks that are sketchy at best on Linux. With the incomplete support for color management and color management devices professional photography is one of those.