Damn it, my Twitter client is a Java app! (PeraPeraPrv)

I don't think Handbrake is going to be showing up on the Mac App Store anyways, so...

For reference, Hatsune Miku's voice is done by Fujita Saki. Hatsune Miku is not the only famous vocaloid, but she's the most famous (and the one getting the concerts).

(dressed like Sailor Moon? Really? It's not even a sailor uniform. Bad article author, bad. Go sit in the corner.)

Having seen some questions asked of other vocaloid actresses, it's an interesting and involved process in recording the voices; it's completely different than normal voice acting (and hours of recording work).

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.

AT&T is charging $20 for tethering and implementing bandwidth caps. So if you gulp down your bandwidth limit with your phone, it costs X. If you gulp down the same bandwidth with your computer, it's X+$20. There's a cap in place, so it takes the "uses more bandwidth" argument out of play (since the tethering plan doesn't increase your cap). There's no reason for it, it's the same bandwidth.

Tricky! You'd have to teleport the car around the track instantaneously. To average 60MPH around 2 trips around the track (2 miles), you'd have to finish in 2 minutes. Exactly the time it took you to travel the track once at 30MPH.

Depends on the beverage. Single use beverage containers are more likely to be done in fluid ounces (12oz cans, 20 oz bottles). They do sell soda and water in 1L-3L bottles.

Bottom line, we don't have any consistency and apparently only grok liters for some kinds of drink containers. There's no reference for gas, which is always in gallons here. We're a strange culture.

12-14 is one thing. You're still constrained. You can't get dozens or hundreds.

Doesn't matter. They were keeping track by CC number (I recall some anecdotal reports of this online). Sure, you could have ordered a bunch from a bunch of non-Apple stores, but it's still another hurdle to jump.

Which is true. Jason Chen, the Gizmodo jounalist, is not that person, though. They are trying to use his notes and communications(on his computer) to either implicate Gizmodo for this as well, and/or find out who the finder is. However, there is a California law that seems to block this (in Gizmodo's lawyer's opinion); we'll have to see what a judge says.

Then he should have said queue up the theme to Jaws.

What camera, pray tell, was this? Focus != focal length.

Most Nikon and Canons, if they're not completely ancient, have a switch on the lens that lets you take the lens out of autofocus mode. Come away from the kit lenses and a great many lenses will let you auto-override the auto focus by turning the focus ring. I'm pretty sure the other majors (Pentax, Sony/Minolta, Olympus, Panasonic) in the SLR space have this type of feature, too.

You may need to take the camera out of continuous auto focus mode (duh, you've told the camera to continually auto focus!) or switch the focus button away from the shutter release (most, if not all the DSLRs have this option, even my lowly D40 can do this).

Actually, the bug would only manifest itself every 4 years. 2012 is a leap year and Feb 29 does exist, so the bug *shouldn't* occur. In 2014, though, we'll see.

True, but the PS3 wasn't released until well after February of that year (November).

I know this is /. and to say "RTFA" is kind of pointless, but, please, RTFA. There's a tweaked sample there for you to try. It will be obvious if you try their sample with whatever graphics program you want to use.