There is a lot of debate here over Auemheimer's character and his true intent. I'm not sure why any of that matters - can we really consider a carelessly designed api a "security exploit?" All he did was increment a number in a url, if I understand this correctly. I don't really care if he sold the information to gawker or if he is a crazy person - changing a url is not "hacking" in any sense. If anyone should be prosecuted here, it's AT&T for being grossly negligent with their customers' private data. The data was openly exposed to the internet - all Auemheimer did was demonstrate how to manipulate the url to get it.

From TFA:

This seems a lot more interesting to me. As another poster mentioned, would cfc use constitute enough of a civilization's existence to make it a viable means of detecting them? But looking for a planet that is warm enough to have liquid water and is outside the goldilocks zone of its solar system seems like an interesting idea.

I doubt this will be the end of the enthusiast PC market. But it does sound like a good opportunity to start a business that sells user-customized soldered motherboard/cpu combos.

Have you used a motorola phone? If the next nexus is a moto, the other OEMs might get a sales boost...

Because most people have already purchased huge numbers of apps and, if they can get use out of them on another platform, why not?

Am I the only one who can't wait to give Win8 a shot just to see what all the screaming is about? I haven't touched the interface at all and only know what I've seen in pictures, but usually something as polarizing as metro ends up being awesome in the long run or it gets completely ditched. I'm excited to decide which one I think it is....

The internet is a "little closed world?"

Why is reading a crappy magazine in the doctor's office more productive than using your smartphone? I hate when people spew opinions like this without showing at least ONE piece of data/evidence that using a smartphone is more harmful than the alternative (the other things we do when we're bored).

And didn't people make the same arguments about television? And then, later, about videogames?

From TFA:

"The star was likely formed in the stellar ring and later thrown into its highly eccentric orbit though a close encounter with one or more stars in the ring. The stars exchanged momentum and the red dwarf was tossed onto a new, deadly trajectory. "

So, even though they're calling it an "orbit," it was likely not on this trajectory before and this is the first time it's getting close enough to the black hole for the disc to be affected. Also, the disc is already being destroyed: "But the damage is already happening. The protoplanetary disk is disintegrating under the black hole's tidal pull -- stretching the disk like taffy. Add to that a withering blast of ultraviolet radiation from the black hole that is heating and driving off material in the disk."

Who cares if it charges a little faster than the previous Tesla? It doesn't even have NFC.

Hopefully they remember to upgrade my area to 3G first... Paying the same price for everyone else for edge speeds is getting old.

I realize you're probably saying this as a joke, but I can face-unlock all of my brother's android devices and we don't like particularly similar as far as brothers go...

PS I probably should have said "the current administration's" VERSION of net neutrality. I don't want anyone to think my comment meant I'm anti-net neutrality, just that I think the net neutrality policy in place isn't even worthy of that name.

Is this your first election? I'm not trying to be a smart-a$$, just pointing out that this is almost always the strategy when going up against the incumbent. It's much safer to try and make the incumbent look bad than to try and convince others that his own policies are any better.

I took it as him calling Obama's version of net neutrality a "solution looking for a problem," not net neutrality in general. Am I wrong here? I could have mis-interpreted it.