The other day I also noticed their text ads sometimes now have contact forms in them with my email address pre-populated. In response I turned off the option in my ad blocker that allowed their text ads. Advertisers are idiots.

I don't either. They make buggy video games with obnoxious amounts of DLC. Somehow that's worse than BofA foreclosing on houses that aren't actually mortgaged?

just ask yourself: what would a "thinking war machine" actually "think" about?

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.

And now some lowercase letters to keep Slashcode happy: haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate

Interesting that they're free. Just curious: is that distance round-trip or if you drive to Vegas will you be walking back to LA?

Ooh now there's a thought. We could finally settle that Enterprise vs. Star Destroyer argument. Vader could become the Borg queen. Find a way to shoehorn Picard in as well so he can have a pod racing scene. All the people in this thread saying Abrams couldn't do any worse than Lucas already has are gonna feel pretty silly.

Shifting half the expense to the device and half the expense to the cable isn't cheaper, it's just moving costs.

That's only true if there's a 1:1 relationship between tablets and cables.

As it so happens that's already implemented.

Ubuntu was demoing an Android port at CES this year, which sounds as though it runs in something like a chroot jail. The idea seems to be to hook your phone up to a monitor to display Linux apps, but it seems at least conceivable that they could display on the phone's screen if you could get around the usability issues.

Considering there hasn't been a release since 2006 or a commit since 2009 I'd say no, they don't really.

I'm afraid we're fresh out of sharks, but perhaps I could interest you in an ill-tempered sea bass?

Oh so that's what "final" means. They're switching to the Final Fantasy versioning scheme.

Where's an illiterate when you need one?!

Fret not! I found one for you:

python's in particular

That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Oh come now. That could be anybody. I mean there must be any number of people who look like the lovechild of Dr. Evil and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

Lest anyone think he is kidding, let's have a look at the permissions for each app.

Obama for America

RECEIVE DATA FROM INTERNET
Allows apps to accept cloud to device messages sent by the app's service. Using this service will incur data usage. Malicious apps could cause excess data usage.

That's money out of your pocket my friends. Typical Democrat.

Romney-Ryan

CONTROL VIBRATOR
Allows the app to control the vibrator.

So it should be obvious that the Register has good reason to be up in arms.