My friends are rarely in a hurry, else they would get a pizza delivered.

They're just too lazy to get out of the car to go inside and have to eat with the rabble.

I've even seen people use the drive-through, then park their car in the car-park and eat inside the car - leaving the engine and air-con running.

Myself, I prefer to eat at the place. I eat at home nearly all the time.

I like the locking feature, but would like it to be GPS based, or even phone tower / wifi name. When I'm at home I don't want (or need) a lock on my phone, but when I'm away from home I do. Work could be an options for people too, but I work in a school - there's no way I'm leaving that unlocked, even on my desk.

I would be happy if there were options of:
"If I see this WiFi network ....., then don't require a password to unlock the phone (also turn volume up)" for at home
"If I see this WiFi network ....., then don't require a password to unlock the phone (also turn volume off)" for at work

Ships used compasses (likely GPS now), which use the magnetic north & south poles - we've known about them moving about the place for ages, and even flipping. This is about the geographic poles which are at different locations - the Earth spins around these..

Maybe they could use 0.000000001% of it's processing power to look for duplicate stories on here.

In Australia, Dick Smith, the electronics company (much like Tandy) is still named after the founder. He sold the company to Woolworths in 1982, and re-sold to Anchorage Capital Partners last year.

They don't go after the electronics hobbyists much anymore, but more the general public now - so many things have been dumbed down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Smith_(entrepreneur) has nothing to do with the stores now, apart from his good name which still holds a lot of power

(Slashdot, please can you add a login button the the editing page when you submit a comment)

Probably related to the first person to look at an oyster and think - that thing that looks like a huge piece of snot - I'm gonna try that one.

If you're looking to use an iPad as a 2nd monitor, then this might be what you are looking for.
http://www.howtogeek.com/100886/how-to-use-your-ipad-as-a-second-monitor-for-your-pc-or-mac/

I and several member of my family have congenital cataracts in both eyes - seems to have started with my grandmother, and seem to have approx 60% chance of passing them on to offspring.

We use eye drops (Atropine 1%) that relax the muscles that constrict the pupils, such that a larger amount of light can get into our eyes and get past the mass of the cataract. My pupils are almost permanently dilated as much as possible and with them I can go outside - regular people with the same eye drops could not go outside as it would be far too bright.

My (corrected) vision is 6/12 -1, so my vision is poor by most standards - it has not changed has far as we have records so I don't know what will happen over time. I'm currently 42, and have had nothing done to my eyes yet. When I visit my ophthalmologist we often chat about surgery options to get them removed, but she recommends that I don't have anything done until my vision starts to go downhill (she even has her own laser surgery practice)

My brother has has one eye corrected with laser surgery, and while his vision improved markedly it is still not 20/20. The ophthalmologist says (in my words) that because our eyes have never seen with normal vision our brain will not be able to understand a fully corrected image - seems to be basically correct based on my brother's experience. My niece had her cataracts removed at 6-months, and will need either contacts or glasses until she finishes growing, then she can have her lenses shaped to give her fairly normal vision.

Apparently our condition is not that uncommon - but I have never encountered anyone outside of my family with congenital cataracts.

(not sure what my point was with writing all that, but I fell better anyway)

The only problem is that there used to be many more sheep.

The wolves have been voting with us sheep all along, and then taking out another sheep each time we turned our backs.

What happens when the last sheep falls asleep?

Next episode title 'See what a canonball can do to modern houses and cars' - a wreckers delight.

Likewise Angry Birds is was at 42 million in 2010, with new ports still coming.
http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/010/12/angry_birds_hits_42_million_free_and_paid_downloads.htm

I have no idea really, but I suspect that Apple might want to talk if someone contacted with them with a possible million sales, then perhaps the profit shares and other downloads might suddenly become possible.

The higher average price might also be - if you pay more then the (at payment time) average price paid then you get another two games (and so then the average goes up slightly)

The average now is $4.06

Just had a thought that might help but I can't think through the possibilities.

How about making moderations expire over time, similar to how mod points expire over time.
Maybe the longer you've been a member the more permanent your mods are.
It could make trendy things not so important, but good facts should always be good.

My house has 'fly' screens and standard door locks, but they were here when I moved in.
It doesn't have a guard dog or a gun.

Maybe you need to live in a more secure operating environment/country.