Don't forget "A woman saving human spaceflight and thereby current human civilization so she can finally get a smoke break."

Planetes: Never has the orbital equivalent of litter picking been portrayed as more of an epic job.

Nobody likes netbooks, because of a lack of margin, so they keep trying to make newer more expensive models which I'm not sure are ever purchased. They would like to believe that they are insufficient for most users, but they aren't. A system that I can watch television-quality streaming video on (Hulu stutters alot more than Youtube) is not underperforming. They've been making bank for so many years on expensive desktop replacements that they really don't like the idea of people switching to a cheaper, better desktop for power and a cheaper, better netbook for portability like the geeks have been doing and killing all their margin.

Yeah, no. We don't have anywhere near the weapons tech needed to actually vaporize orbiting objects, it would just take too much power. All we can do is push them out of orbit, or scatter them into even more orbits as shrapnel.

It's a troll because it's insulting. It needs no other reason.

It's functional on IE 6. Which really doesn't do much for this guys geek cred.

It's how I heat my bedroom.

University of Utah has been doing haptics like that for a long time.

Every livery cab service in New York already does this. You aren't allowed to pick up hailing passengers unless your a medallion-holding yellow cab. Obviously there some convenience or efficiency advantage in hailing a cab or else these licenses wouldn't cost a small fortune like they do. I'm not sure why New York keeps squeezing the shield-holders like this, they get criticized more than enough for even having the shield system in the first place without forcing extra expensive changes on the cab owners.

Ignorance of the law would be no excuse if the code of law was rational, knowable, and sane. Like it was for the Romans who probably coined the phrase. We left that behind long ago.

I think they're using the term glitch to cover "bad idea implemented with a horribly flawed design and worse implementation".

Because most journalists look at you funny if you call it a wireless waldo.

Those sandboxing restrictions remind me a little of the restrictions already in place for applets.

Actually pawn shops have to charge such a large margin as a risk load to account for the fact that the merchandise might be stolen and get confiscated.

Actually I think it was IBM who came up with the 20% thing.