I don't need to understand it, I don't manage out Yelp presence; it's not my company, I'm just a developer there.

For me it's not news, just entertainment. I can cope with a little entertainment amongst my news.

Shit, one of my favourite articles on Slashdot for years was the link to some professor lighting his barbecue with liquid oxygen. Sure, it's all over youtube now but back then it was novel, interesting and highly amusing.

Kind of like watching someone microwave their brand new iphone.

Being charged with a crime is different to being charged for a service which is different to being charged by a rhinoceros which is different to being charged with polar energy which is different with being charged with a commission.

Useful word, charged.

Even without the tracking it's fucking horrible. I dislike it, and find myself bewildered by its popularity.

That's great if you only want to sync a few files to a few specific locations, but it's nice to be able to fully manage the device, which Air Droid lets you do. Perhaps a combination of the two methods would provide the best of both worlds?

Thanks for the tip, though, I was not aware of Bittorrent Sync!

No, I was LOL'ing at the teeny tiny little sign that was ostensibly the purpose of the march while having a HUGE banner for the cause they really care about.. If they were marching as "Doctors Against Climate Change" or something, it wouldn't have been funny.

Here's the specific image I am referring to:
http://tinypic.com/r/2mqu44o/8

Air Droid is an awesome (free) app, used in local mode and without an account. Definitely check it out, it's made using HTC sync manager so much easier (by making it unnecessary).

Unopened... Container of liquid... As in sealed pressure vessel... Being heated past boiling.

In case you missed a physics class, that's a bomb, my friend.

It's not just mass hype. People with completely unrelated causes march with their own banners. I didn't get a chance to walk through this protest, but I lived in New York City when all of those supposed "anti-war" protests were taking place. Sure, there were genuine anti-war protestors there - but you wouldn't believe how much of the mass was some random cause trying to get some sympathetic eyeballs. Animal rights, global warming, anti-corporation... you name it. Some of the pictures I've seen indicate the same thing happening here. I saw a group of people marching in white coats with a huge banner saying "HEALTHCARE IS A RIGHT" and a teeny tiny sign being held by one member saying "Global Warming affects Healthcare". LOL, wha?

I'm hoping we don't get to a point where a corporation has such a right. It's bad enough that they get to choose a religion.

It's worse than that! The company I work for has one negative review on Yelp, but several positive reviews "pending" that they won't publish unless we pay them! And the negative review was over the fact that they didn't yet have a quote from us for custom work for which they hadn't provided us the requested details.

Looking at the page now, it does look like they published two of the positive reviews, but there are still a handful held in limbo. How long between the authoring and publishing of the negative review, though? No time at all.

Maybe it wasn't an argument at all, but a joke? Fancy that, and form an Apple use, of all people. (To be fair, I also use an Android phone, run my business on Linux, use Windows for testing, and have been eying a Chromebook Pixel for a while now)

Sorry, 40-50 of the 59 MPs voted in by people in Scotland were part of the majority Government and you don't think that Government represented Scotland?

The Yes campaign was bitching that "we didn't vote for this government". I was pointing out that they did vote for the previous one. I didn't say that their vote was solely behind the majority.

So yes I will be honest, and will put "Can do basic logic" on my next annual appraisal.

Perhaps the problem is that you've lost hold of what makes 8-year-olds so delightful? There was a cynical curmudgeon about just about every technological advance throughout human history, and despite that flight is routine and inexpensive. Horseless carriages clog the roads. Skyscrapers crown cities. Nuclear reactors pump out gigawatts of electricity. Ships the size of skyscrapers ply the seas carrying stuff built by robots. We carry some significant percentage of all human knowledge in our pockets. At every step, there were doubters. You are that guy now.

If you want to manufacture stuff in space, you can't just jump right to space foundries and space smelters. Baby steps.

No, the key is not ignoring the sensor failures. The "Tube" is also not without incident, though nothing fatal since 1975 - which is pretty darned good. Nor is the completely-manual (even the doors!) New York subway.