I remember back in the day all my friends had an email account and that was how you could reach them. Now you have to remember how to reach each friend. Some of them are Facebook People, so you have to message there. Some use SMS. For some of them all you have is their @ISP email, which languishes for months when you fail to realize they've moved to gmail... Not only do you have to know their address, you have to know the conduit...

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."

The point is, in an emergency there is no checklist

Hey Anonymous Coward, there sure as hell is. The whole point of a checklist is you remain calm and 'work the problem.'

If you're in the cockpit of a 747 and the engines flame out at 35K feet the first thing you do is grab your checklist.

What the USA needs, first and foremost, is STRONG campaign finance reform, following the models found in other first-world nations like Canada. Once you have that, much of the other pieces start to fall into place...

Sometimes you don't have any choice in the hours you and your kids need to keep.

If you want to hang out at The Olive Garden at 9pm get a sitter, or don't have kids. Forcing some poor exhausted toddler to sit in a high chair because your work hours means you can't enjoy unlimited breadsticks until after their bedtime is child abuse.

Except your body won't stay on NYC time. It'll align itself with the sunlight hours you're now experiencing in LA. If you're a night owl in NYC, you'll be a night owl in LA, after that period

Only because you keep staying up late.

I travel a lot for business, and, if the schedule allows it, I'll often stay on my 'old' time zone, sometimes for 4 or 5 nights. It's not hard because it's what you're used to.

I tell people my 2 year old goes to be at 7:30PM and wakes up at 7:00AM, then has a 2 hours nap. I've gotten everything from incredulous stares to accusations that I'm somehow a bad parent for letting my kid sleep that much

Same here - Lights out at 7:30 and a big nap in the afternoon, Although my 2 year old boy seems to be ready to get up at 6am most mornings.

I think the reason you (we) get stares is parents have to adjust their lifestyles if they want their kids to get enough sleep, and they're not keen on that. I see people hauling their exhausted kids around at 9pm and I'm like "What the hell?"

If you're from NYC and you travel to L.A., you'll be getting up earlier and going to be earlier than L.A. people. If you 'stay' on NYC time you'll in effect become an L.A. morning person.

So determined are you to avoid acknowledging that, yeah, this fits pretty darned well the idea of a "flying car" that you'll move the goalposts so now it's only called "flying" if it uses something that currently is physically impossible? So, birds don't really fly either, then?

My point is that for 50 years, popular culture has 'trained' us as to what a flying car is / should be. It's Doc Brown's hover-converted DeLorean. It's Korben Dallas's taxi. It's George Jetson's car. It's Deckard's Spinner. When you talk 'flying car' rightly or wrongly that's what people expect.

Enough with the "Fake" Flying Cars Already - I think everyone is getting tired of these 'flying car' stories, be they on /., Wired, PopSci or wherever.

A Flying Car uses some kind of anti-gravity device. It can float. Don't show me a hovercraft, helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft.

For greater clarity but so as not to limit the generality of the foregoing, see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhF4gu87rn0

Artists have always made money by touring and the recordings have never given them much income

How exactly does the author of an e-book "tour" and make money?

DRM doesn't effectively control reproduction.

Sure it does. If you buy The Avengers on Blu-Ray and you want to put it on your iPad it's by no means an easy process. If it was, you could just put the disk in your computer and drag it to the iPad.

When I went to school (I'm 46), "Wrinkle in Time" was on the curriculum.

The only problem is that, sadly, people aren't going to care.

Exactly right. My TV is online, my DVD player is online, my IP-TV PVR box is online. No one will care that their game box has to be online.

This is not a threat to consoles - What is a threat is the fact that, more and more, people just play sophisticated games on their tablets.

The bigger problem with having an Israeli stamp on your passport means if you try and enter other countries in the region you are subject to being denied entry or detained simply for having been to Israel.

Mostly hellhole misogynistic anti-semitic countries you shouldn't be spending your money in anyway.

Last time I was in the Middle East I went from Israel to Jordan to Egypt. No troubles crossing the borders at all. In fact, the biggest hassle was subsequently getting into the USA with Arabic Egyptian and Jordanian visas in my passport. (I'm Canadian.) Eventually I just got a new passport.