You won't be playing badminton at the clubs without cash.

Most people who pay me don't have bank accounts, it's either cash or money orders.

Gas for the car? Cheaper via cash. This becomes all the larger when gas prices are higher.

Car repairs? You'd be a fool to pay electronically, when the discount for cash gives you $20 back for small services, and multiples of that for large.

Drinks at the bar? Cash means faster service, more value to your tips, less problems/complaints on tabs.

Meanwhile, every other month I know folks who have dropped phones in the toilet, lost, broken, had their phone stolen, or the person paying for their phone service doesn't, so it gets shut off. Only once in my dozen years of doing my job has a client lost her purse.

I laugh every time these articles get posted here, as there are entire segments of society for whom this would not function.

Meanwhile a week ago nematodes reached the singularity, when folks mapped the roundworms' 300+ synaptic connections into a Lego robot, which proceeded to react to moving toward a wall in similar fashion to biological nematodes.

I'd say Discovery has now truly jumped the shark, except snakes can't exactly jump, and aren't sharks.

*nods... "I took the bike for a ride at the Cambridge office and offer this review."

That's factually untrue. This is nothing more than a promo, there is one line that it took longer for a ten minute trip (but not how much longer) or why.

Where's the review? Where's the experience? Comparisons? Where's anything that gives any idea of what it's like other than how much it weighs? (Simply declaring it'll feel different because they are tweaking it doesn't count.)

Were this "review" on Amazon I'd answer, "no, this purported review was not helpful at all".

I've always wanted to stay on DST year round. I've never seen the point in getting up to go to work in the dark, and it getting dark before leaving the office. Why not go to work in the dark and have some time outside at the end of the day? Why have "high noon" occur way before noon? (Admittedly, if you live on the tail end of a timezone, it'll be closer to noon when the sun's highest.) OK, so there were some farming rationals back when we were an agricultural nation, or energy saving theories and stuff, but nowadays, let's just be practical.

So it's trying to be Google+ without the popularity? Oh, but pay for aspects of it directly?

This, you can't "cheat" on me since I give you permission. (Of course, that doesn't mean my trust can't be betrayed in other ways, or attempts to manipulate me, etc., but there's less emotional agita.)

Although some aren't capable of opening jars.

Cannibals obviously don't draw the line there. Of course from a disease prevention basis, it's frowned upon. I'd eat non-toxic aliens that were smarter than humans if tasty, affordable, nutritious and convenient to prepare. Other beings on this planet happily eat humans regardless of whether we're more intelligent or not. What does intelligence of food have to do with sustenance? I've never heard of such a debate.

Yes, Apple is way overpriced, considers itself fancy, likes to dictate what you can do, likes to secretly track what you do, and have you pay for it.

M$ is overpriced, but lets you do what you want.

Google has no price, they ask if you wish to trade info for useful services.

Apple is like a wife; lets you think you'll get some for all you're paying, but you end up badly screwed.
M$ is like a girlfriend; you actually get some for what you pay.
Google is like a lover; you not only get some, what you give is less, and they are honest about it.

Turbine's biggest property isn't mentioned in passing? Heh. Lord of the Rings Online is still going strong.

Simpler for kids is use a pattern, and base the first key off a letter in the website.

So password for Slashdot might be sdsasd (right, left, right). For Google+, ghgfgh. For pornhub, p[pop[

These are just examples, nowadays many require a number/shifted number be part of it, so I'd include that before or after the pattern. That way it's easy, the same pattern everywhere, just a different start point, unique, relatively secure, doesn't teach the bad idea of writing a password down, and is much faster to enter.

(Note, these types of passwords are hard to enter on a mobile device without a qwerty keyboard.)

"If the government has to decide what to fund and what not to fund, they are going to get their ideas and decisions mostly from science fiction rather than what's being published in technical papers."

Shouldn't that read...

"If the government has to decide what to fund and what not to fund, they are going to get their ideas and decisions mostly from the Bible rather than anything remotely reasonable."

We need the populace to elect different folks before the dream of the former would be true.

Nah, sell your homemade porn tapes in a tag sale. No need to digitize and restore them yourself. Someone else will get off doing that, post the results online, and soon they'll be replicated not just "in the cloud", but redundantly all over the world. It won't matter, you'll never know as you'll never desire to watch them anyway. You might earn a couple bucks at the tag sale though. Use it to buy vibrator batteries.

Incandescent light bulbs that generate decent heat, so the plumbing lines running through the back stairwell don't freeze in winter.

Snaps. (I wish there were snaps on my cellphone case, since the velcro has worn out after 13 years.)

Hook and eye closures, because, bras.

Birth control, although newer forms that eliminate monthly periods are pure win.

PS: Anything that can be used one-handed where newer replacements require two, the aforementioned snaps instead of buttons, flip cellphone with keys that can even be used without viewing, etc.