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Well, there is a small amount of hope that Iceland may be able to offer refuge right? I'm sure he'd be more inclined to help Germany if he was secure there. Personally I hate to think of just how much money it would take for a team to capture and smuggle him out of Russia, and to provide...

I know most of this was way back in the comments, but isn't attempting to pin anything as complex as a U.S. presidential election to a single factor a bit... uh, simple? Especially for ARS? Of course Comey had an effect. And Hillary was also a terribly flawed candidate from (at the least) the...

OK sure. So you were saying that in the US historical nuclear research facilities have more site contamination than civilian nuclear power reactors (historical or modern). That's true. And logically you'd expect as much given the industry was basically born there. It's an argument that such...

Huh? No. In what way is the bolded demonstrably true? Worst in terms of loss of human life, or even animal life than any other industry site contamination? Not even close! I'd argue Hanford is the worst (as in potential dangerous to human health) nuclear contamination site here, and one that...

Hmm. It's not that I disagree with the notion that certain "human factors" make some serious tasks more difficult... but if you follow that logic through you will see why this sentiment is less common than it used to be (thankfully). Being 'against massive increase in nuclear energy... because...

As non-fun as the predictable derailment of any energy article into nuclear bashing always is... The bottom figure claims to represent "worker deaths in underground coal mining disasters", presumably in response to a link about Chinese miner deaths. But it is still irksome in the larger...

Oh, I don't know about that. Perhaps I'm just a corner case. Via Flash or HTML5 now, Youtube's algorithm for buffering, not buffering, or spastically dumping cache while switching between bitrates causes me no end of frustration (adding insult to irritation, I'm in 720p jail now for using a...

Thank goodness. Periodic reminders like this are a really good thing in an environment that doesn't see a lot of malware. Really I can't see any juicy OS X vs Windows substance here; the best practice for users are the same: - apply system updates regularly - avoid running Adobe Reader plugin...

I'm all for society to drop its sudden fascination with prison buttsecks as well whenever arrests are mentioned. Just with less caps. But then in 'Merica, we are apparently still OK with the State killing folks without much concern their actual guilt and/or mental competence. Once people have...

What a waste of talent. Murdoch's flying monkeys needed no real intellect for their "hacking"... and profited very well from it for years. Cynicism > Idealism?

The Unarchiver all the way as a default filetype handler. However, if you are going to throw down money why not get Pacifist? Looks to manage files from within an archive as you describe, and has bonus functionality for OS X packages.

The password change protocol should probably be modified. As Ars openforum dutifully states: "Please enter your current password to verify your changes." Giant, "slack-jawed hole" is an odd turn of phrase though. A uselessly anecdotal survey says about 90% of a certain subset of users near me...

My money is waiting for Mac clients of Torchlight II and Diablo III. Single player just isn't the same.

I've been waiting for over a year (using a burner phone) for the mythical Verizon iPhone. Yes, I am an idiot. Despite the timeframe finally aligning for LTE devices near the time of an iPhone refresh... the more stories I see regarding this, the less convinced I am that it will ever happen...

Meh. The issue is the issue and won't disappear (though Ars is clearly beating a dead horse now). But more to the point, "people are still buying them"... and NOT returning them. They work well enough for the millions that wanted an iPhone 4 in the first place, meeting or exceeding...

I wonder how many of the (so far) quite small percentage with actual dropped signals are the SIM card tray shorting issue? While those with sweaty palms might drop the signal somewhat, it sounds like most people are actually finding an improvement during normal use. When the dust settles, I...

Yes, because when push comes to shove giant, near-monopoly corporations can always be trusted to do the right thing -- voluntarily! Any attempt at regulation just means a baby angel has its wings violently ripped off. If the past decade has taught me anything, it is this. I mean, who is the...

Wow. I learn so much about threads at Ars; who knew? I demand that the obnoxiously awkward phrase "clothes horse" be used in an upcoming article about processor architecture. As far as bespoke (which while not a clothes-oriented American I have definitely heard and used before in a similar...

For what it is worth, I have absolutely no problem with the way that sites like Ars and Anandtech split articles into pages. Some other sites abuse this for revenue and presented a problem, but I've simply stopped going to those sites by now. I would prefer that the entire article buffers while...

Wow. I have zero understanding of the complaints about the article or title. In fact, I was just thinking that the article was more accessible to the average reader than usual, while still providing interesting technical detail. But I am left with basically two questions. Exactly why no 5Ghz...