I think my 3DS would work if I could find the charger, but my Wii U died years ago. It's too bad; I really liked that concept (and how it arguably paved the way for the Switch) but if felt like it had to be pretty flimsy to have an acceptable price point.

Purple milkshake blob? Is that what Grimace is supposed to be? I'm an eighties kid but this is news to me. Shocking, game-changing news.

I ran ME on an HP Pavilion 8340 with almost no issues. The only problem I had was with a SoundBlaster Live! I installed. I assume it was tested on stock hardware only, since it ran the only issue I had was with the only component I swapped out.

Do you have a source on the smallpox discovery? Because that exact same thing happened in the new James Bond movie....

Am I the only one who thinks that the flame war in every Linux thread is the reason why it never happened?

It's no longer about preventing attacks from happening, but accepting that they are going to happen and hardening systems to minimize or eliminate theft and damage when they do. This might seem obvious to a lot of people in the tech industry, but it represents a major paradigm shift for banking.

Pornography is 80% of the reason this technology even exists.

Fair point.

Regardless of your position on Open Source, this kind of openness helps Tesla look more like a thought leader and less like a pyramid scheme.

I realized that my three-year-old needed a haircut after the cloud service I use tagged his photo as a picture of a dog.

. . . and one that we might be able to solve by better managing our watersheds. It would be expensive, but peanuts compared so some of the issues that get all the press, and would probably have more side benefits. Unfortunately, no one has found a way to use this issue to push their unrelated political agenda, so you don't hear much about it.

I've been an eBay user since 1999, but I sort of gave up after getting burned on counterfeit SD cards recently. It's my own fault, of course, but my solution was to stop buying that stuff on eBay and just use Amazon Prime.

You can get around the New York Times paywall by using an incognito tab.

It was the game show with the Whammies that stole your money. As I recall, there was a guy who watched the show long enough that he figured out a pattern that would let him win every time. He played for like three days, and won a crazy amount of money. The show went of the air, but I remember reading that the programmers who created the game board offered to make it 'true random' for another $600, and the network refused to pay it.

This article reminds me of that story.