If you can't figure out why the New York Times considers New York City labour issues to be news, then maybe you should do a bit more research before spouting off.

Newegg's RMA department seems to be a little crazy. I once received a scanner with a damaged box from them. When I opened the box, it was obvious that the power adapter had fallen out of the hole in the box sometime during shipping. Since neither they nor Epson could just send me a replacement adapter, I had to RMA the whole thing. The RMA was initially denied because I hadn't included all parts that shipped with the scanner.

A phone call cleared things up, but really? They didn't even read the RMA closely enough to see that the missing part was the entire point of the RMA?

Facebook also tracks your movements on other, non-Facebook sites. Since he specified that FB gets nothing when he logs out, I'm guessing he's installed a browser extension to block the widget that allows them to track you outside of Facebook.

You know people use PCs in places other than the UK, right?

Not if your shares were among the ones being sold as part of the IPO.

I'm quite honestly surprised they even made replacing an HDD with a non-Apple brand even possible.

They've sure made it a pain in the ass on the iMac.

Yeah, the government had nothing to do with the creation of the internet, the roads he uses to drive to work every day, the electrical grid that powers the computers used to access Facebook, the funding of the educational institutions that formed the initial userbase of Facebook, or the propping up of the financial system that completely shat itself in 2008! We better hope this John Galt doesn't decide to withdraw his enlightened ability to create wealth from our society or we're done for!

Seriously, if you could stop masturbating to Ayn Rand for three seconds and actually think about it, maybe you'd realize that public investment in infrastructure and research is a huge part of what made this country what it is, and the fact that we've been underfunding them for almost thirty years is, while hardly the single cause of our national decline, certainly not helping things.

And the Slashdot summary is, as usual, a fucking travesty. The "renounce your citizenship specifically because of taxes and you're not allowed back in the country" clause is already law and is part of the form you have to sign to renounce your citizenship. What the article actually says is that Schumer and Bob Casey are proposing a special tax on people who renounce their citizenship specificially to avoid taxes.

Well, we had plenty of rich guys in the 80s, and they're now paying lower taxes than they did then. So we're definitely not anywhere near the "danger zone" of "losing all our rich people", and we are in fact continuing to cut their taxes.

Opening the hardware is one thing, but Woz was also talking about software. Allowing more third-party access to Apple's "calendar world, their contact world" would hardly increase support complexity, but it would sure make it harder to leave the Apple ecosystem.

They actually sold great—so great that they were cannibalising Mac sales, which was one of the main reasons the program was killed.

Except that you can't use a pre-4S AT&T iPhone on Verizon, because Verizon's network is CDMA and all iPhones before the 4S (besides the Verizon 4) were GSM-only. And Verizon won't activate a phone that they didn't sell. The only option for an unlocked GSM iPhone in the US is T-Mobile, and even then you're limited to EDGE speeds because of their weird-ass frequencies.

Well, the fact that Hernandez has actually worked as an astronaut and been to space would be one thing that differentiates him from you.

Considering that the official language of Afghanistan is Pashto, I doubt they'll take any questions in Farsi.

That's pretty lazy thinking. You do know that "Democrats=liberal and Republicans=conservative" hasn't been a universal constant throughout our history? And how exactly does "voting for the common man" screw the rich?

Google Voice is a call forwarding/routing and voicemail service, so it's doubtful that it will ever become a Siri competitor. Perhaps you're thinking of Google Voice Actions?