That's the best part though - I didn't have to bounce around! Most of the stuff was cheaper on the net, and most had free shipping. Also, Target, Best Buy, Kohl's, and Toys R' Us are within about a mile of each other here as well, and I'll bet that's the case with most places, so bouncing isn't that bad anyway.

Your comment is very apt though, retailers need to figure out that they need to offer more than just an item or two lower than competitors and move to a different model, as technology is breaking their current sales model.

I used my iPhone and the Red Laser app to scan all the toys my kids wanted. It shows all the prices for the stores around me, as well as online. I got approached by at least one sales person asking me what I was doing, and Toys R Us specifically was not happy. I got approached by a floor manager after the sales person approached me, and he asked to see the app. He looked none too happy. Why in the world would I not check if I had the ability??

Snake? Is that you?

Absolutely. I can't count the amount of times I rented StarTropics and Mega Man for the NES and then Final Fantasy 3 for the SNES. My friends and I would have sleepovers and PRAY for that copy of FF3 to be in for that weekend so we could be up for 24 straight hours trying to play through it, as your save would never be there next time.

Oh yeah, and ARE YOU LISTENING MUSIC INDUSTRY? Innovate or die.

That's where you are wrong. There is a lack of resources, funding, and computers cycles. There have been cycles running for years. I know cancer researchers, and I've donated time, money, and my computer cycles. Great job though moderators, bump up misinformation.

You'd rage too if you were 34 and had to deal with this shit. And watch, I'll get marked as Troll again, even though I'm not and have a great post history. Whatever.

Thank God! And cancer? Still unsolved. I'll bet computer time could be used for that too. (sorry, bullsh*t like this hits very close to home for me recently. Nothing like having people dying, and then hearing how we are using resources for utter crap)

It's not a matter of having a "Bank of America" or "FirstMerit" ATM in your living room, they don't make the ATM's. Banks buy ATM's to interface with their own network. If you would buy an ATM you'd need a banking entity, so you'd typically set up the account with the ATM manufacturer or a partner. For example, Triton sells those dinky little ATM's you see at gas stations. The gas station has an account with Triton, where Triton is the "banking entity" which is allowed to reach out into your bank's account, fills the ATM with money, collects the fees, etc.

You would be absolutely correct. I used to work for one of the largest ATM manufacturers, and I'm still very close with the people that designed most of the ATM's you see in banks and convenience stores. It's really just a branding thing, and even then there isn't much they do besides slapping a plastic faceplate on the ATM. You have to be one of the larger banks and have a very large exclusivity contract before they'll even start considering a design specific for your bank - I only saw one in five years of working there.

How did this bullshit troll article make the front page? C'mon editors, this is ridiculous.

Not true at all. The last company I worked for (Fortune 200) all the engineers had iPhones. My current company we all use iPhones. I consult on the side, and I see about a 60/40 split (Blackberry to iPhone) at this point. Sorry to burst your bubble; that statement may have been true in the past, but it's not true anymore.

I'm a senior engineer and wouldn't go back to a Pearl or other Blackberry from my iPhone if you paid me; the only way I would is if a company I worked for forced using a Blackberry, and that's happening a lot less from what I've seen. And with the Cisco Anyconnect client about to be released, my iPhone will be even more useful. Hell, I may even get an iPad to keep with me on the road and use that for terminal services and ssh access.

Confirming receipt of the report sounds like "yes, we got your email of the report". I believe what we are looking for is if Microsoft provided any information (timeframe, severity, anything), so the point is still open. The fact that this article and every article I've read on it has not said anything about Microsoft giving some info is smoking-gunnish that it didn't happen. Still, until there's a credible source the question is still out there.

Actually, no it wasn't. In the first season DVD extras the idea was originally this, but they realized they needed more and came up with the mythos and mysteries of the island before they pitched it.

You're wrong about the filler too; there has been little to no filler so far, mostly because they did the smart thing at the beginning: they decided to end it at a specific place and knew when the ending was coming, so they made the story fit how many hours over the seasons they had.

The implications on security in regards to hacking are interesting - you could in theory try to brute-force someone's phone from a slight distance, say next to them on a city bus. Not having to leave fingerprints on someone's device as well is another positive, as it is based on gestures. Especially handy for devices where wireless is protected or not enabled! Even if it took a picture to see who was gesturing, I'm sure you could get out of the way and just have your hand in the frame.

Am I going to take a karma hit for responding to an off-topic post with another off-topic post?

This is Slashdot though, and I believe that most people that read this site would be more in the "above-average" group. It's like asking a room full of janitors versus a room full of rocket scientists; you'd expect the rocket scientists to be the smarter lot. Of course there will be exceptions, as there always are, but on average I would guess the people who come here are more educated, more talented, and have higher IQ's.