I was in the market for a smaller iPad. I've had my 16GB iPad 4 for several years, but it seems to choke on newer apps. I really wanted a new iPad Mini, but I'm not buying a model that's two years old at any price. Apple has billions in cash, but they can't seem to engineer regular updates into their product lineup since Jobs died.

Demand a static IP address from your ISP. I work for a small ISP who employed a reckless infrastructure manager. Internet time sync was set incorrectly on several servers. When we received infringement complaints, our IP assignment logs were useless. That didn't stop them from sending the notices to 90-year-olds, or other customers who were obviously not downloading infringing material.

... and a smallpox vaccine's effectiveness could vary greatly depending on the individual – at least according to the anti-vaxers. I'm all for scientific study, but implying increased general physical activity might be harmful flys in the face of logic and generally agreed upon health standards.

I'm a returning student currently enrolled to earn my B.S. two decades after completing my A.S. My course plan for my degree has several electives that frankly don't matter to my field of study. Knowing that every science course I took had lab fees to cover the additional costs, I also wonder if some degrees should require more class time than others. The standard 120 credit hours seems like the real source of lower cost/lower paying fields subsidizing the STEM fields.

So does anyone have an Uncle Eddie that could deliver Sergey and Larry tied up with a bow?

About two weeks out from Christmas and you can't find a 3DS in any retail store. I guess for research, I could pay 3x the retail price to a scalper on eBay.

I work for a very small ISP, and personally, I'd side with Charter on this one. We provide a modem to customers as part of the basic service and guarantee internet will work with the provider modem. If our modem goes bad, we supply a replacement no questions asked. Customers who are technically adept may use their own equipment, but we won't support it beyond providing normal configuration settings. If any Tom, Dick, or Harry can use whatever they want, then the ISP is on the hook for supporting possibly damaged or outdated equipment. I can't think of another industry that makes the original provider responsible for customer modifications.

... cleaning up after themselves. If it had been a man, he'd have just fsk'd the drive and used it for a minecraft server.

It's nice to see our next President turning over a new leaf and following DOD standards for data destruction.

Fitbits are highly dependent on close contact with the skin to take accurate heart rate measurements. During "intense" workouts, an improperly fitting monitor could loose contact with the skin at every hard step. I could see the study being thrown out because Fitbit will claim the researchers used the wrong size tracker and the company's instructions weren't followed. There's a big difference between a product could theoretically fail to perform in lab conditions and how it performs under normal use.

Why the hell is a politician using colors other than red, white, or blue in the US? Plus throw a damn star in there. Those two factors increase your chances of election by something like 11%.

Just look no further than slashdot. All these young whippersnappers with 7 digit slashdot user id numbers are taking over the place.

Unfortunately, I'm married to an otherwise wonderful woman who feels entitled to text in theaters. Every time we go out, I'm forced to choose between standing on the right side of history and getting sexytimes later.

I have some proprietary servers running in an old analog CATV headend that I'm responsible for maintaining. I received end of support notices (i.e a few years after they stopped producing them) from the manufacture my first year at this job. I'll be celebrating 9 years with the company in April.

Windows XP is no longer a standard. Doesn't mean I don't use it every goddamn day. An industry website I use weekly just rolled out an update based on flash. They update on an 8 year or so update cycle. I need them, they don't need me. The funny thing about markets is there's almost always a secondary market willing to use and abuse the rest of the world's castoffs.