People have a hard enough time saying USB (I often hear UBS). I can imagine this conversation taking place:

Computer sales guy: Hi! Welcome to (insert name of favorite electronics store). What brings you in?
Customer: I need one of those "Leet Speak" things.
CSG: You mean a gaming headset?
Cust.: No...wait, maybe. No.
CSG: What are you trying to do with your computer?
Cust.: Oh! I remember...it's a Light Speed Drive!
CSG: You're looking for a DVD-burner with LiteScribe?
Cust.: I already have a DVD. What's LiteScribe?
CSG: Nevermind.

The inverse must be true as well, because I actually enjoyed watching Avatar.

Must be a really shitty movie.

That stupid drum loop paired with the Super Mario Bros. theme was making my ears bleed.

...another $8 cable (includes shipping). I understand the point of the article is that for the non-techy consumer of Hi-Def equipment these new requirements are going to cause problems.

Disney owns ABC. Disney owns Pixar. Steve Jobs sold Pixar to Disney. Pixar is now in charge of Disney animation studios. Steve Jobs is on the Board of Directors as part of the negotiations over Pixar. I don't think it's odd at all. In fact, if I had that much sway in a media conglomerate I would definitely use it to promote my new products or to help put out PR fires.

I don't see how this is weird. The room didn't get any brighter when they bombarded my knee with x-rays when they were looking at my torn meniscus.

...water is still wet.

The customers that threw me for a loop were the ones that insisted on calling the entire computer a "modem." As in the following example:

Customer: I need to buy a new modem.
Me: All right. Who's your ISP?
Customer: (blank stare) Do I need to buy the monitor separately?
Me: (blank stare)
Customer: It keeps saying that I'm running out of memory.
Me: (light comes on) Let me show you some of the computers we have in stock.

As one of the many dissatisfied Droid Eris owners I have a couple things to say. First, Verizon has told me several times that they are "handling things differently now" when it comes to defective phones. It took three trips to two separate, local Verizon stores and two phone calls to Verizon tech support before someone finally agreed to send me a replacement Eris. I have been told by three separate Verizon reps that a software patch is being released that will "definitely fix" the sound problem, but as of last Thursday there was no ETA on said update (looks like that's changed). Between a new (well, "refurbished") handset and a software patch this week, I'm hoping I have a working phone soon.

Forever? I'm pretty sure tattoos are finite considering that the host's body is finite.

Because no one has ever been arrested on false charges before.

That depends on the nature of the test. If it's just the capture and rebroadcasting of police broadcasts, there shouldn't be much if any disruption. If he's jumping turn-stiles or planting fake bombs, then sure that's a problem.

Using that logic though, by tying up the resources necessary to arrest this guy, a real threat may have slipped by unnoticed (assuming that this guy wasn't a real threat).

I would take your argument further and say that 76% of all conversations on and offline might be considered worthless chatter if the intended audience is not taken into account (as another poster already pointed out). If you're my doctor and are monitoring my diet, you do care about what I had for breakfast. Re-tweets are useful if they serve to spread a worthwhile tweet beyond its initial audience, making the re-tweet inherently valuable to its receiving audience. That's exactly why word-of-mouth advertising is so effective.

Also, I didn't notice any list of what the article's authors used as criteria to determine if a tweet was junk or not.

Rapid advancement in mobile is often attributed to the natural disruption by which emerging industries innovate quickly, while established markets like PCs follow a slower, more sustained trajectory.

But there had to be some way for me to create buzz for my blog so I came up with some convoluted explanation.