Sounds like a slightly more advanced version of the Android app called Tasker.

Balls!

Now we can't name an actual habitable planet as Vulcan! You've ruined it for the generation of interstellar tourists.

Now if only they could stop the speed of my PC from turning to sludge when I watch a flash video on it. Started doing it a few weeks ago.

Mapquest did something similar to me back in the 90s. I put in a shop address, which turned out to be wrong (shop website was wrong). Since the address couldn't be found (I'm guessing, it didn't tell me so at the time), it gave me directions to the centre of zipcode, which happened to be a warehouse that got a few similar people like me in the past.

"Hi , I'm looking for this shop..."

"Used Mapquest? It's wrong. There's no shops anywhere near here."

I found the shop in a more traditional way - found a payphone, phoned them up, and got directions.

The cable companies make it sound as if they want to keep the specialist channels part of a bundle so that you have access to them them. What they really want is for you to pay for the complete bundle that includes a particular channel, even if you don't watch the rest. The psychological aspect is that you are getting more for your money, even if you aren't going to use any of the extras. And because these silly mind tricks work on so many people, the rest of us are stuck with it.

My DVR keeps track of the channels I watch the most. Taking out local news channels, I watch six channels about 95% of the viewing time. The other 5% are from movies on random channels that I don't see otherwise. I expect that most people are roughly similar although with different channels. If I paid $10 per channel then I'd still save money, although even in that case I think I'd probably only go for 3-4 channels and use the saved money for Netflix for the programmes on the channels I drop.

We just need a few brave channels to start livestreaming, but I'm sure that the cable companies forbid them from doing so in their contract.

Okay, so this is a review of all the things you can't do with a Kindle, now can we have one that tells you all the things you can do?

I've been lumbered with one for xmas (got an early heads-up) which I can't return (wanted the Nexus 7), so I was hoping this article would tell me the easiest options for sideloading and the risks of rooting since the rest of the web is pretty light on details (Looks like I am best off downloading an app onto my phone, then extracting the apk using airdroid, copying onto the Kindle and installing it using the file explorer - but that's just my best guess).

Even better, I could be the awesome uncle who turns up on xmas and makes my neice's sucky tablet into something much more capable, but it looks like I'll have to wait until I get my own hands on it

Want an endless supply of free porn? Make an app that encourages people to send naked photos of themselves to each other, and save all the sent photos.

That would be the store where they charged your data plan just for viewing the apps, even when on wifi. Was it ever going to succeed with such a stupid plan?

I remember thinking I'd completed the game, only to end up in the xen world.

Once I accidentally sent a security guard into a room full of soldiers. Somehow he killed every single one!

Nah

It's just that conservative women tend to fit into the stereotype that women must be caked in make-up and have big hair, whereas liberal women don't. You should also notice that half of the attacks on Democrat women by conservative talkshow hosts concentrate on their physical appearance rather than policies.

And

In the case of my dad, old men who use computers are also more likely to forward you chain emails and post racist things on facebook.

About time they flattened out their nonsensical flag logo, which evolved from a Dali-esque curved window. I'm surprised they didn't do it earlier, when they first unveiled the Metro interface on Windows phones, since it is pretty much the same as that.

Always amused me how so many logos demonstrate how people can't decide whether green or yellow is the third primary colour so they include both.

How did they measure it?

They don't know how or why this is happening, so how did they work out it was happening at all? Are they simply using the amount pumped into the atmosphere and then measuring the amount left in the air?

Obviously fake

The star isn't obscured by the clouds over Seattle.

Why is it so dark in the city there? Do blue ones put out that much less visible light?

Sharper Image is more of a gadget store, they don't sell resistors and parts like Maplins, just weirdly expensive cameras and beeping keychains.

I thought they had gone out of business, all the shops near me closed down a few years ago. Glad they are still around since I got to see that pic.

I didn't think that any scientist subscribed to his Gaia theory anyway.

What?

Why are there no "they all look the same" racist jokes? Or were they the ones that got deleted?

And they don't even bother to give you a page of blank "keys" that you can customise?

Shops

In the US there are "As seen on tv" shops that sell all the tat that is advertised on tv that you can otherwise only buy mail-order with absurdly inefficient shipping and handling departments (does it really cost them $8 each time to put it in a cardboard box and write an address on it?)

I'm not so sure that you can judge a whole ecosystem just by measuring water run off.

"Kudos to the IPCC - they have gotten the issue just about right, where 'right' means that the report accurately reflects the academic literature on this topic."

I was expecting him to say

"where 'right' means that the report agrees with my opinion on this topic."

Interesting

I like the use of Lagrange points, but the way that gravity suddenly stops working at a certain distance is a bit too unscientific. I wonder if I can get a bird into a sustainable orbit...

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What did I just read?

Weird idea

Now kids won't be able to buy anything from any supermarket, convenience store, newsagents, petrol station, etc, because they all sell beer and cigarettes. Good job cash exists.

I'm betting that this is more a case of "Woman with no sex drive assumes everyone is the same as her"

I didn't think I was ready for that jelly

And sure enough, I was.

I hope the device had rounded corners.

Let me get this straight

They were trying to appeal to young men to not put their phones in their pocket because it means they won't get a girl pregnant? Wouldn't it actually encourage them to do so?

Paradigm shift

How about instead of treating lawn mowing as a once-per-week or so activity, treat it as a constant thing. As soon as a blade of grass gets to a certain length, zap the top off with a laser. Constant scanning as a specific height means one or so shots per minute, with some software to avoid shooting larger objects such as children.

If it's unlimited, then by definition they can't charge you for going over your limit.

Warn them, lower their speed, kick them off for going over a particular amount too much, but charging them as soon as they go over the number hidden in the small print is going too far.