Scumbag? Cute. It's not the most noble act in the world, yes, but it really isn't that much different than real estate speculation. Buy a tract of land you think will be desirable, and wait for someone to want it.

Yes and no. Sure it creates a bit of inefficiency, sure he doesn't have much work to do beyond the speculation... but you say this as if almost all business in the world doesn't involve an endless series of middlemen.

My father never heard of the place, or thought about anything related to domain names, until he saw commercials for GoDaddy. Now he makes a decent sum of money on the side, simply by registering and selling domain names, speculating.

How many phones out there are capable of integrating this into their firmware, download the software to begin with, yet don't have touchscreens, all while still being in service. I just don't see any situation where a phone doesn't have a touch screen, yet would be enhanced by one. Aside from maybe older keyboard based phones, like earlier Blackberries... but that still leaves the question of getting it in and having it be worthwhile.

This says nothing, of course, about the user themselves. Even if you could get it implemented, most people who don't have a touchscreen don't really want one, or are planning on getting a new phone soon enough.

Of course, there still will be plenty of people who this won't help at all who will get this anyways. It will be like 3D movies. Not everything was meant to be in 3D, but people will still go to the 3D showing by the truckload.

This is like saying that people at the mall spend more time at the Barnes & Noble than in front of the "You Are Here" maps.

So these new "Cyber Hitmen" who "Take Down Pirates" are, essentially, using the same playbook as a place like 4chan? Next they'll be paying their staff to stand in front of street vendors selling pirated movies, in suits and afro wigs, holding signs that say "Vendor's Closed. Vendor has AIDS"

If I remember right, World of Warcraft distributes their patches over a P2P system. Maybe it isn't Ironforge that always makes you laggy....

Thinkgeek might still have something called "The Sonic Bomb", it's the alarm clock I use. Red display, and more than loud enough. The display even has a dimmer switch, and you can adjust the volume and pitch of the alarm. It also comes with an optional disc that you stick between the mattress that vibrates sharply in time with the alarm, and the clock itself has an extra strip of LEDs that turn on and strobe during the alarm.

The company that makes it usually does clocks and phones for deaf people.

The American news outlets are simply afraid that the stories resulting from Wikileaks releases might remind the public what actual news is. They can't allow this to happen, not after they already have so much time invested in which political commentator hates who, which contestant was bumped out of America's Got Talent the night before, and coverage of Tiger Woods's love-life. God forbid they have to take the time to dig up information, rather than only reporting on information that wants to be reported on, that's time that can't be afforded in a 24-hour news cycle.

And the big players are going to sell in China? Where the mere existence of this machine, and its security from lawsuit, already shows their respect for copyright law? You make games for this, you'll sell as many copies as there are major bootleggers in the country. Then your lovely game will be bundled with 19 others and sold for half the price. Assuming you get through censorship.

This is why everyone releases games for the console these days. Everyone pirates PC games, but no one can pirate for the consoles...

The greeting card sections at Wal-Mart probably contain 30% of the world's helium supply, inside of Spongebob and Dora the Explorer mylar balloons.

That makes the assumption that all rural-area dwellers are farmers and the like. I live in a rather rural area, and only a handful of the families actually run productive farms. The people who staff it are kids with summer jobs who go into the city on days off to blow their money at the mall. The closest thing I've ever done to 'creating food' is tried eating lawn grass as a child.

348 to 23, huh? Glad to hear the entire House is around to vote on things, and hasn't ditched out to campaign and fund-raise. I'd hate to think that they're off, desperately trying to keep their job, rather than doing the job they were elected to do in the first place.

Purity of essence, peace on earth, P-O-E, O-P-E, it's some variation of this.

Listen, Major... Bat Guano, if that's even your real name...