The only EMV card readers that I've seen in the wild have been at McDonald's. AAFES might've had the readers for CAC cards (although I don't think they were issuing those 13 years ago)

NPAPI plugins (or at least Unity) already don't work on the Mac version of Chrome

I had the same issue with the movie. However one of the people I saw the movie with claims that the parachute ropes (and the people hanging onto them) were slowly rotating around the station. If there were some centrifugal stuff going on, then the scene would make sense.

Unfortunately the retina MBPs aren't straight upgrades from the non-retina ones. If you get one with a retina display you lose a few things.
Ports/peripherals:
  Ethernet port
  CD/DVD drive
  Firewire port
  Audio in

I believe the retina macs also don't let you add more RAM or upgrade/replace your HDD/SSD

"I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?"

I don't think they even took preorders. I ordered mine a day or two after it went up on sale and I've had it for a few weeks

If you have the source, it's not very hard to create your own binaries

This is just a delayed April Fools' Day thing, right?

Importing classified material? What games are you playing?!?

D3's skill system is a lot simpler than D2's.

The full version of Mass Effect 3 costs $80 here in the United States, although other games are less of a rip-off

IIRC the FCC doesn't care about didactic nudity. I think a TV station did a "How to do a breast cancer self-examination" segment (which involved broadcasting breasts) and the FCC was fine with it.

Don't forget the "phone" part of the iPhone :p