I still have my very first credit card. It's 20+ years old, sits in a lockbox, and has a thousand dollar limit, by far the lowest of my cards. It costs me $10 a year to maintain. It's there entirely because it anchors the oldest account ranking for me.

If the only thing required is a refrigerator then this might make sense, but refrigerators go into kitchens, and kitchens have more requirements than just cool and frozen.

There are good reasons to want a tablet in a central, accessible location in the kitchen. Apparently, Samsung isn't it, but that's not a condemnation of the idea.

Replaceable memory is not just to provide upgradability, it allows buyers to shop memory pricing.

" This is a budget laptop. It doesn't need to be upgraded."

Odd, that's never been a description of budget laptops previously.

" For someone on a tech website, you're certainly completely out of touch with technology needs."

Takes one to know one. and you're replying to an AC.

Or why even buy a computer at all? Let's ignore that the entire appeal of computers is their flexibility.

"Corals are dying worldwide. Ask the great barrier reef."

I asked the Great Barrier Reef and it said everything was fine, in the King's English no less. More than that, the Great Barrier Reef was annoyed at the assumption that it would know about other reefs worldwide. The Great Barrier Reef told me to tell you to F off.

"Why are we wasting time, money and research into something we know already?
Once again time wasted , money spent and no action taken."

"We" aren't, it's just a troll. Scientists study things all the time, environmentalists troll on the health of coral reefs all the time. Besides, what could be done for corals?

Jaques Cousteau used to dynamite coral reefs to make it more convenient for his boat. The world's most famous environmentalists did not give a shit, rules for thee.

As long as the fundamental principle driving world economies is greed, the world is doomed.

Coral doesn't migrate, it spawns. Spawning covers significant distances of the currents enable it.

And while the time period of the current threat is short in geological time, it is irrelevant compared to annual variations in temperature corals are already adapted to.

It is amazing just how wrong the thinking is on this subject, the corals under threat are the corals that live at the boundary of livability. Relatively little coral is in this range. Coral reefs extend down to significant depths, and a single spawn could cause reefs to grow deeper. Of course, ignorance is a trademark of /. posts.

Only a small part of coral systems are sufficiently close to thermal limits to need to "adapt". A rise of a few degrees is enormous, but not lethal for corals that live in cooler waters. Some conspicuous examples may not survive, but that doesn't define a threat to the world.

"Just because the entire reef isnt currently 'living' does not mean it isn't habitat for things that are."

Dead coral isn't under threat from climate change.

They don't need to reach "current sizes".

It's all bullshit anyway. Corals live in a broad range of temps and a great range of depths. Corals will be hurt in some areas yet thrive in others. It's not an excuse to ignore dire climate problems, but bogus coral threats have been claimed for decades now. Coral reefs are enormous and grow down to significant depths. The Florida keys may be in for hard times, but not all reefs will be.

The 1st year graduate cares, you'll figure it out when your job is terminated

"... they announced the addition of this feature in 2009..."
Yeah, a year later.

Other "highly requested" features added after the iPhone was introduced? MMS LOL

Steve Jobs instructed internal development to not support text messaging, since everyone uses email. Fortunately, he was saved from that particular humiliation. It's really a miracle that Apple succeeded at anything considering Jobs's incompetence and sociopathy.

And don't forget about 3rd party apps, which Apple explained couldn't be allowed on a phone because of security issues that could expose the cellular network. That took two years, though. Funny how everyone else could allow 3rd party apps...because cellular functions are firewalled in hardware and those risks do not exist.

Fortunately, Apple provided "web apps" that looked like native apps, allegedly, and we all know how good Apple's web browser was at the time since they would not support Flash.

Release the Epstein Drive files!

This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.