Your Echo can hear your thoughts as well...

That's a lot of damn bugs. How does one go about breeding 20 million mosquitoes? Maybe more importantly, how do you separate out the ladies from the gents?

A number of manufacturers officially consider this 'normal', meaning that they won't fix it under warranty unless it burns more than a quart per month. I know for a fact this is BMW's policy as well.

I don't need a button to order new detergent, but I imagine it would be quite easy to intercept the signal from these devices and cause some other action. Close the garage door, turn down the lights in your home theater, set the thermostat back a few degrees when you go to sleep, etc.

Sure it would. If my pig alarm was going off I would damn sure pay attention and comply with any speed limit changes.

Should've not said should of.

Amazon doesn't seem like the type of company to negotiate exclusive (restrictive) deals like this. I'd bet that they decided to use a GSM radio in the phone, which will work around the world. Verizon and Sprint use a CDMA network that pretty much only exists in the US. Sometimes we tend to forget that the US only makes up 5% of the world's population.

I can't be the only one that read the headline as Oregon Extends Push To Track Taxi Drivers Per Mile.

Vacujamming a Ding Dong... Is that some sort of S&M?

You missed a few digits there. Google is getting 1.8 million (with an m) per year. They paid 12.5 billion (with a b) for Motorola. That puts the payback period at 7,000 years, which methinks is a little long.

Am I the only one who thought this was an article about tiny testicles?

It drives me crazy- my kids have several java-based websites they are required to use for school. I'm not too worried if their laptops get borked- there's nothing of value on them. When the nasties spread across the network to my PC and my server, I've got real problems. What do I do besides complain to the school?

"'Even travelling at the speed of light, it would take 4 billion light years to cross"

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In a press release from The Royal Astronomical Society??? facepalm...

I wish your step-mother would talk to my wife. She consistently buys me the worst possible tools.

Am I the only one that thought this article was about a new wrench for repairing fiber optic cables?