So? It's Google! By definition everything they do is wonderful, brilliant and the future. But their greatest product of all is hype, and they ship it in volume.

Microsoft is suing for Prior Art

Yahoo had the perfect opportunity for roll-your-sites and social networks. Geocities and related services were popular in the late 90's, but they didn't improve the products, such as making them more click-to-build etc. so users didn't have to learn HTML. They sat on it and it rotted. They also had a reputation for crappy customer service. They could have been the next Facebook + Google.

Plug it into a power strip. Hit the master power switch on the strip when you turn off the console. I already do this for all my consoles (all 18 of them) anyway. Better to have them disconnected from main power during a lightning strike.

At least you won't get a heavy accent.

US gov't is fucked up to the N'th degree.

3rd-world gov'ts are fucked up to the N+1 degree.

It's okay because it's 10 feet long

Never underestimate the power of rocks.

Pffft, Gorn trolls

My understanding is that the primary advantage of cooking was that the heat does most of the "digestion" for you by breaking complex molecules down into simpler ones so that your digestive track didn't have to spend as much energy digesting food (even on meat). Also, our ancestors' digestive tracks could be smaller, improving our hunting chase range and allowing more resources for the brain.

Preventing illness is a minor benefit in comparison.

You can do it yourself. 'mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o video.avi video.flv' Then post a plain old download link.

See, Honkies can't jump :-)
 

So they made 22-caliber torpedoes also?

But the National Spear Association lobbied against controls. Even cave babies were allowed to own spears.

Are you stupid enough to believe that Republicans wouldn't use "a $20million suit to punish a nurse for cracking ribs while providing CPR" as an excuse to indemnify doctors against all their wrongs? They have proven that they will deregulate everything, no matter who it hurts, just for the sake of deregulation.

You are missing the point. Being triggered by sound or light means the malware can be activate by a global hack on the world's TV stations, just like happens on bad sci-fi series.

Android devices world wide will rise up and take over when the call to arms comes over the airwaves. I'm imagining a nightmarishly robotic and shadowy figure flickering across billions of TV screens, screaming "ACTIVATE! ACTIVATE!"

At that point the malware Android army will simultaneously post inane and vague status updates onto everyone's Facebook, then self destruct. No-one will be able to reply except for users of Apple and Windows, and all Android users will wither and die alone in a desert of dis-communication.

That's the nightmare scenario the writers of this dumb study had in mind, isn't it?

Now if someone gets convicted, or slapped with a zillion dollar fine, then we'll have a story.

And if the government is too corrupt to jail its own, that's not a story?