Your Tech meter exploded: You typed USB every time instead of UBS. Notably excepted from what you copied from that article and quoted.

Oh okay. http://intuitpayments.com/POS

Also, if the shoe improves performance by 3.5%, then wouldn't wearing a pair of them take that 100 meter 10 second time down to 9.3 seconds, instead of 9.65 seconds? /snark

You can keep your unlimited data plan, for a price. Rather than signing a new 2 year contract, and saving $500 on your new phone, you can pay full price for the phone, not be locked into a 2 year agreement, and keep the unlimited data package.

Vana, I'd like to buy an L...what do you mean, I can only buy vowels?

Weird. You must read the same tech news site that I do!
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/23/0156226/sci-fi-writer-elizabeth-moon-believes-everyone-should-be-chipped
Also, in case someone hadn't read that story yet, and is outraged at Elizabeth Moon's comment, they were asked for controversial sound bytes. She just happened to give one that was publicized, and criticized.
http://e-moon60.livejournal.com/442811.html

I think you meant to type "deaf people". And I think you meant to mean to type "blind people". Y'know, the ones that would get clues about their surroundings by listening to the new artificial sounds for silent-running cars?

But, see, it's a video game. They've given up and acknowledged that the violence isn't real. But, look, it's totally implied that naughty things are happening between those two guys when the camera fades to black!

I'm pretty sure you are completely naive about what goes on their.

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That is assuming that the suppliers would then pass that money on to their workers. But why would they do that? Is it because only Apple is a greedy corporation, whose aim is to make money, and all other companies (suppliers) are benevolent, aiming only to improve conditions for their workers?

FTA:

And that it's only £100,000, not a million? 1,000 x 1,000 pixels, at £0.1 per pixel...they're doing it wrong!

They said the production model will be about the same size as a SmartCar. A little larger, actually. This is a half-size demo model.

My question is this: If it is programmed to not exceed speed limits, what about times that you need to put on a burst of speed? Before everyone jumps in saying you NEVER need to speed, here's a scenario. You're going through a green light. Someone on a cross street decides they are more important than stoplights, and runs through it. Sometimes, you could slam the brakes to avoid them, sometimes you're already in their path and need to speed up to get out of the way. Surprise! Your car won't let you do that! And you're in a tin can of a car, and are smeared across the front of that Hummer H3.

Dang it, AC, you sound a little insightful for a bit, then you propagate the nerd stereotype. It's supposed to be "I feel kinda dirty, I'm gonna go home and SHOWER now."

Well, in your example, you clearly had to travel twice as far in the second example. It took 3 trudges in the first example. The second example was 3 trudges, open a door, then 3 trudges!