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So not true. The markup on RAM and HD upgrades in laptops is usually plain price gouging. Add a 120GB SSD for $113? When a new one runs $65? This is one of the reasons I always buy sub-$400 laptops. Once I toss in a cheap SSD, I'd have been out of pocket possibly as much as twice what it...

Meh. There are two different segments here. There's the sub $400 and the sub $600 ones. Not the same segment at all. I always go for the sub $400. Typically, I find the closest thing to an x86 Chromebook that's not a Chromebook and end up happy with it (after installing a Linux distro). My...

The thing I still hate about iMacs is that all the ports are on the back. Sure, maybe it looks nice that way, but the least they could do is put a couple on the front or the side. It's such a hassle to have to get to the back.

My problem with the FBI's line is this: The question at stake should not be first be the legality of the evidence. Rather, it should be that assuming the evidence is proper, the defense still needs a full exposition of the methods and techniques used to obtain said evidence and its chain of...

My vote goes to giant touchscreen walls. Forget projectors. Make the whole wall a seamless touchscreen.

Where I live if you play tennis in the night or evening during the summer the bats will be out. If you smack a high lob there's a good chance a bat will dive in towards the ball only to veer away at the last second. I have no idea what a tennis ball looks like to a bat with sonar, but I...

I don't really get the connection between lots of gamers being infantile misogynists and the gaming press being too tightly connected to industry? It's like they have nothing to do with each other... Oh, wait, they really don't. It's just that misogynists want to leverage the gaming-industry...

I always thought part of the point of Kickstarter was that things *might fail.* It's one thing for somebody to just walk off with the money without putting in any work like they won the lottery. It's another for people to get in over their heads and not be able to do what they'd hoped. How the...

So what does the FCC do with a million plus comments? I assume they don't actually read them.

So why aren't both drivers being charged when both drivers (evidently - it's not clear from the article how close in temporal proximity to the wreck any phone use was) were doing illegal things? Basic precepts of defensive driving and the rules of the road should make it impossible to hold only...

It should be a crime for police to disable recording devices.

He wouldn't be acquitted - I'm pretty sure it would be some form of dismissal, though I don't know what the implications are legally.

It's not just you. The Oracle business model is to make thing more and more complex so more and more consultants and licenses are required, not to actually make a functional system work with available resources. Though I'm sure it only gets worse when you can't get the buy-in and cooperation...

This article has one of the worst and most misleading headlines I've seen on Ars. The project solicited feedback on a preview release as a means to address exactly the kind of 'issue' that was uncovered. Also, even with the supposedly 'fixed' version in the standard SSL lib, the exact same...

This is one thing I feel sorry for Google about. Unencrypted WiFi is by definition PUBLIC. Network accessible over said Wifi is likewise PUBLIC. Supremes are very low RBI recently.

61/381 sure looks like a fishing expedition to me.

Ruling that you can't rent an antenna is going to go down as one of the worst supreme court rulings in history.

If aliens have a TV station does that make SETI@home against the law?

Maybe you could make a wall of windmills instead. 24 rows of 24 story towers with one turbine per story or something.

I can't wait until someone leaves a metered game running at the menu screen by accident when they visit a friend for the weekend or something and comes back to find they've been charged hundreds of dollars.