Last year, Softcard bribed me - cash, Amazon gift cards, etc. to use their service.
This year, they stopped, and I went back to swiping my credit card.

The problem is that Softcard payment requires more steps than you think:
1) Unlock phone
2) Open app
3) Type in 4-digit pin (why can't I use my fingerprint?)
4) Tap
Also, the tap is not as easy as you think. The first time you do it like the video, it probably won't work. On my S5, the sweet spot is actually in the middle of the phone horizontally across middle of NFC reader, and once I figured that out, I usually succeeded on the first try. However, some card readers just suck and will frequently require multiple tries. Rite Aid card readers, before they stopped accepting it, were the most likely to have this problem (and it was always the same ones at particular registers that gave me trouble).

The way it SHOULD work is that I put my phone over the NFC reader, it asks me for fingerprint, and done. Reality bites.

Radio Shack has historically aggressively sued anyone who uses "Shack" in their name, incl. AutoZone, which used to be Auto Shack. Most companies don't want to spend the money to fight them and just change their name.

Where's my drone delivery?

There are local computer shops that sell barebones kits (assembly included) that do pretty well too. I agree that Radio Shack just sort of straddled the line and ended up doing nothing well.

Sears/Kmart and JCPenney can have a race.

That said, those are the go-to places for deals right now. JCPenney has reverted to mailing $10 off $10 coupons, and Sears just recently reined in many of their out-of-control coupons.

So I take it their Superbowl commercial last year didn't save them?

Chinese official face their biggest challenge yet: too big to pay bribes.

Geforce 750 should be able to run 1920x1080 at high settings on most games, so I would say it's ideal. I run 2560x1440 on a Geforce 660, medium and sometimes medium-high settings no problem.

That would be an improvement! Their strategy is to follow the white ant because it knows where the food is, and after the white ant takes the food, they look for scraps it left behind. Even when the white ant hits a dead end and spins in circles, they are undeterred in heading over there.

... how long will it take to hack in? Days later, the machine will finally respond to the unoptimized hacking code, it will launch a shell, and out-of-memory, lol.

I thought it was see something, shoot something.

You should read the comment above:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
Basically, they can only call it solved if the robot has a strategy that's not exploitable in this format (limited Texas Hold'EM).
But the ironic thing (and the article itself admits it) is that this perfect robot player doesn't necessarily win the most because it can't adjust to exploit other human players. It just has a can't lose.

Well, that sort of illustrates why the test is wrong so often, but if you TRY to be bored and aggressive, you'll probably think too much ;)

The way they teach you to beat it is pretty simple. Before they ask the hard questions, they need to calibrate. They will ask you something easy to get a base truth response. Likewise, they will get a base lie response. You want your base lie response to go sky high so that nothing can ever match that. Bite your tongue. Tighten you ass. Whatever you like. Once you're past that, then strain yourself a little and answer all the questions like that. Just remember that you're not in the clear yet because you've handled the problem with the junk science handing out false positives, but don't forget the person across from you is not a scientist but a skilled interrogator. They can still ask all sorts of loaded questions. For example, have you ever done something personal during work time? The interrogator is much better at this game than you are and probably has more mental stamina than you do. That's why they say if you have a choice, don't take a polygraph - tell them you know how it works, and that it's a sham.

I found this to be a great read on the subject:
https://antipolygraph.org/lie-...
They actually talk about specific cases concerning the trouble use of this for defense and intelligence, and why it's such a sham. You also see that they probably keep using it even though it's inaccurate because it beats some confessions out of some people, and I guess they don't mind the innocents that get screwed by it.

Exactly. There's no reliable body response for a lie. All they are measuring is nervousness, which you could have for a variety of reasons. It's the same thing the border agent does.

The purpose of the polygraph is to bully the victim into a confession. The unknowing victim thinks they are undergoing a scientific test, but they are actually being drilled by a skilled interrogator w/ no lawyer present to defuse the loaded questions.