One of my family members is paralyzed from the waist down. They have limited mobility in one leg and none in the other. They can walk with a full leg brace and specialized crutches. It doesn't take all the connections to be severed to be paralyzed....

Because that is putting time and effort into developing features to support competitors. At least they support competition with decent security.

Just a lame copy of Namor the Sub-Mariner

Nigeria isn't where is Ebola currently is. It's not even relevant even if it was still happening...

A little piece of web history, and then you have to end it with a statement about computing 500 years from now. Obviously current web standards still will still apply...

Nice piece of CSS history though.

After putting a standard halogen light behind my monitor, I eliminated the headaches was having. [/anecdote]

I fail to see how having the light colored does anything additional besides be distracting.

Good for them. One less party getting a cut of a probably already small paycheck. It also gives Google more control over employee quality.

In production environments, where outages cost real money, support contracts are definitely not a sign of ignorance. Good admins acknowledge they don't know everything and sometimes need help.

In the grand scheme of world news, it's new worthy because Syria has not authorized air strikes. So it could be a start of an international incident because China and Russia don't like other nations interfering on any countries sovereign soil.

Right or wrong, Slashdot has had big world news and political articles for as long as I can remember.

Of course, if everyone was running my favorite OS, we wouldn't have any security vulnerabilities. It of course has to do with the OS and not that the users have enough rights to run unknown code from an email.

But the sucralose and aspartame were secondary in the testing, most of the testing was straight glucose vs. sucrose + saccharin vs plain sucrose. From what I read so far.

Massive was indeed what I meant.

One is a neutron Star. So a object multiple times more dense than the Sun but only a 5-15 miles wide. The other a red giant (when our Sun becomes a red giant it'll be as big as Earth's orbit). So the first barrier you would cross working for the middle is a iron polymer a million times stronger than steel as you crossed out of the tiny tiny neutron star into the absolutely enormous red giant. An analogy would be a BB gun pellet inside of a balloon.

It decreases the incentive for some people. There are plenty of counterexamples of unpatented innovative software. I know I know, don't feed the trolls.

The point that I was trying to make wasn't a point against headsets. It was that they perform their intended purpose well, but you don't see most end users with them. Headset just cutout one piece, holding the device in your hand while doing audio tasks.

Likewise some of the watches are very similar, some units have impressive battery lives and allow you to do GPS/accelerometer or visual tasks that require viewing only.

In the end, your point rings true. What "killer app" is would be more convenient on a tiny screen strapped to you with little input capabilities rather than the multifunctional device you have to will also have to carry in your pocket that has already been done (notifications/fitness)? That's the answer the OP's looking for and I think the collective answer is "I can't think of one".