Company introduces new version of an established form factor, except slightly faster. Not really worthy of mention. The disruptive (or potentially disruptive) products are the ones /. should be covering -- like the tiny new laptop chargers from finsix (complete with built-in USB port so it can charge your phone at the same time). Let's hope for something extremely clever to come out of the upcoming CES show. I'm not holding my breath, though; we may have a decade of iterative improvements in tablet tech ahead of us before the next big hardware shift.

England, obviously. Around here, you're more likely to find a gaggle of Schreiners, Schusters, Bauers and Maurer.

Actually, I suspect that tapping the mic would yield far more useful intelligence. After all, the camera will simply capture hundreds of hours of your poorly lit head and glazed eyes. The mic, on the other hand, will capture every single conversation in the room.

Umm. Malwarebytes is a *removal* tool that doesn't offer real-time virus scanning. It's only useful after the machine is infected. It scares me when a "how-to" post has only 4 points, and one of them is so blisteringly wrong that it makes you suspect the OP doesn't actually know how to drive a computer.

A $1 incandescent bulb that lives in the downstairs storage room or closet of my house will only get used 2-3 hours a year at most. With a little luck, it will last a decade or two. There is no rational reason to replace it with a CFL or LED.

In the year leading up to the termination of the Xserve line, Apple sold 42,414 units. They were a money-losing niche product.

Umm. Dude. I think you meat to leave this little manifesto in the comment section of the Toronto Sun.

Wow. That was a xenophobic rant. Given that Canadair was sold off in 1986, I'd fly on an Embraer instead, too. I live in Canada, and honestly don't have much opportunity to buy US-made technology. I bought a Pontiac Vibe in 2007, and it was a great little car (although basically a Japanese design made in Fremont). I buy lots of tech gear designed by US companies but made in China and shop at American-owned stores like Walmart, Costco and Target. I'm really not a sure where you get the bizarre notion that we're anti-American.

American engineering is very much alive. The same can't be said for high tech manufacturing.

I'd like to know which Canadian urban centre you live in where the local post office counter is "15 miles" down the road. Mine is less than one kilometre from my house at the local grocery store.

Actually, no. The Canada Post community mailboxes have a handful of large compartments in several sizes that are used for package delivery -- the postal worker simply puts the key in your mailbox and you use it to unlock the compartment and then just drop the key into the mail slot afterward. The end result is that if I'm not home, the package from Amazon.ca that I'm expecting is available for immediate pickup from a secure and dry place.

Why would that be? Because the ten commandments are sensible? Three of them are "Don't work on Sunday (but don't forget to attend church so you can be indoctrinated by his earthly minions)," "Don't say bad stuff about God (and by extension, his earthly minions)," and "You're not allowed to worship other Gods but me (which once again benefits his earthly minions)."

There is already a large body of law around utility theft. Consequently, there is no precedent to be set.

We're reading Scott Adam's words precisely because he *didn't* dial back his emotions. He was distraught and angry that he couldn't alleviate his father's suffering when he needed it most. The irony here is that Adams is a wealthy man -- he has the financial ability to pay for the best health care the nation can offer, but health care isn't what his father needs. Adams has a right to be angry, and he has a right to demand change (as do any of us in a democracy). Sometimes that means saying things out loud that are perhaps better kept inside. In this case, though, his "inside voice" speaks a grain of truth; politicians who force unimaginable agony on the dying should take the time to visit care homes and hospices and realize that unless laws are changed, there's a high chance that their inhumane laws will result in them dying a long and horrible death, too.

If their service reliability and scalability is well above industry averages and they have excellent backbone connectivity to their suburban mall parking lots, I'd be all over it in a heartbeat. But that's a long shot.