Simon commented on Japanese Scientists Extend Flash Memory Lifespan to Hundreds of Years

"This is exactly the type of innovation that makes efficiency comparisons (as reported earlier on the Giz) between SSDs and HDDs premature."

Simon commented on NASA Shows Off Fireworks In Space

"I <3 space."

Simon commented on Swindled: Solid State Drives Don't Extend Battery Life, They Shorten It

"To get back to the post: "SSD manufacturers haven't focused on other power saving principles at this time." What's amazing is that SSDs perform so close to HDDs without much in the way of efficiency engineering."

Simon commented on ICANN Opens Door For Crazy Domain Names Like Crap.Crap

"Of course anybody who actually does this is making their web presence impossible to memorize and locate."

Simon commented on What a Tornado Taught Me About Our Stupid Obsession With Gadgets (And Why We Still Love Them)

"@tk2k: For sure. How gadgets affect our lives is just as important as their effect."

Simon commented on Apple WWDC Liveblog Coverage

"My three predictions: 1) Wheel reinvented, now 3G 2) Fire made open to developers 3) Aluminum MacBooks, and soon in colors Does anyone else find it odd that the new OS is (supposedly) named after an endangered species?"

Simon commented on Is It Right That the U.S. Government Spends More on the Digital TV Switch Than Literacy Education?

"Literacy: An educated, literate society (one that places a high value on media literacy, not just attaining some base level of it) will push itself to be aware of sea changes in TV and Broadband."

Simon commented on Matchstick Clock Spells Out The Hours But Can't Tell Time

"C'mon Giz, you guys can't cream yourselves over watches that *tell* time in binary (or better/worse yet some crazy light pattern) and then trash on this clock for also being temporally illegible."

Simon commented on Computer Writes 200,000 Books, Man Takes Credit

"@matto That is *the* comment of this thread."

Simon commented on FCC Prepping Nationwide Text Message Alert System

"Great, government spam."

Simon commented on 5250-Foot Tower Will Make Burj Dubai Look Like Pencil

"@ cloudnine thanks for lightening up this oddly terror-centric comment thread!"

Simon commented on MIT Students Create Giant 20-Sided Die In Honor of Gary Gygax

"@atomx Seriously, MIT students are known from their hilarious and well-crafted pranks."

Simon commented on Video of BigDog Beta Quadruped Robot Is So Stupid It's Hilarious

"Good times at the Giz"

Simon commented on International Dance Party: Instant Disco in a Box Creates Infinite Party Loop

"Best art I've seen all week."

Simon commented on Technosexual: One Man's Tale of Robot Love

"Wow, great interview Giz."

Simon commented on This Camera Is Shocking (Sorry)

"In high school some friends and I made "The fish of pain", a rubber novelty fish stuffed with the electronic guts of a disposable camera."

Simon commented on Arthur C Clarke Dies, Probably Headed Back to the Stars

"Someone should put a memorial into geosynchronous orbit."