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Crave in Comments: From Iron Man to iBamboo

Our feature "Crave in Comments" highlights just a few of the many intelligent, provocative, and funny comments readers share about Crave stories daily. Every Friday, we'll showcase a handful of comments that caught our eye during the week. We encourage you to join the discussion and share your own opinions, quips, and creative suggestions. The more voices, the merrier the Crave chorus!

About Guy goes to work in homemade Iron Man suit:

"This man would make a lot of money if he could sell replicas of what he made. The irony is...it would still say..."Made In China" --by ekimagem

About Xbox's original beast of a controller making a comeback?:

"Gah, I hated that big bastard... We used to play Halo at a buddies house and he had one of the original controllers and one of the S controllers, and we would always fight to use the S." --by Ross7406

About HTC quickly flip-flops; Desire will get Gingerbread:

"Oh, well somebody must have gotten a kick in the butt after that." --by Nataku4ca

Crave in Comments: From Star Wars to Samsung

Our new feature "Crave in Comments" highlights just a few of the many intelligent, provocative, and funny comments readers share about Crave stories daily. Every Friday, we'll showcase a handful of comments that caught our eye during the week. We encourage you to join the discussion and share your own opinions, quips, and creative suggestions. The more voices, the merrier the Crave chorus!

About Samsung Chromebook is interesting but incomplete:

"Chrome will sell some notebooks, but I doubt it'll change or revolutionize anything. In my opinion, Chrome is another marketing blunder waiting to happen. Google TV was the first. Personally, I don't like the idea of ALL of my files floating around on the internet. It basically turns Google into my computer and my laptop basically becomes a dumb terminal. I like being able to put my files on my own hard drive...because if I don't want my files hacked, I can simply unplug it. Android would make a lot more sense to market on a netbook." --by mcharlton1

About New, slicker Star Tours relaunches at Disneyland:

"I really enjoyed the new Star Tours. I managed to get on it 5 times during the annual passholder preview and was thoroughly satisfied. Different ride every time so far." --by i_run4fun

Crave in Comments: From popcorn to Patriot Act

Regarding Patriot Act signed by President Autopen:

"If after 10 days he does not sign a bill or veto it, it automatically becomes law. The only time the lack of his signature causes a bill to not become law is at the end of a Congress (once every two years) where if he doesn't sign it and the 113th Congress is gone until the start of the 114th Congress, then it is called a 'pocket veto' and the bill dies because any business of the current Congress doesn't roll over into the next Congress. So, if his autopen signature was not entirely allowable, the bill will still automatically become law after 10 days. Either way, the Patriot act is renewed." --by MalachyNG

Crave in Comments: From B&N to bedbugs

Regarding New Sony Vaio F, S series laptops go upscale:

"I think the VAIO S series is the best laptop I have seen. It is thin, really portable at around 3 pounds, and so fast. I probably will buy one next year once 22nm CPU comes out. It already has 7-8 hours of battery life so that less power hungry CPU should increase it. Plus, for all of those of you that don't know, you can add a sheet (flat) battery to it and it will get 15 hours." --by phamhlam

Regarding B&N fires back at Amazon over Kindle battery life:

"How about both companies making the battery replaceable, instead of insisting on "mine is bigger." --by rreally_bored

Crave in Comments: From AMD to aiming pee

This week, we're rolling out a new feature, "Crave in Comments," to highlight just a few of the many intelligent, provocative, and funny comments readers share about Crave stories daily. Every Friday, we'll showcase a handful of comments that caught our eye during the week. We encourage you to join the discussion and share your own opinions, quips, and creative suggestions. The more voices, the merrier the Crave chorus!

From Microsoft criticizes Intel over Windows 8 comments:

"I like AMD's chips the most for one reason. Without AMD biting at their heals, Intel would … Read more

Do we need the Internet for a revolution?

In the last two years I have read at least a dozen books that champion the Internet as the key to personal and political freedom. Scholars and academics have come to see digital communication as a near messiah in power and prescience.

However, I believe that the current revolution in Egypt should temper our faith in the Internet.

The Egyptian government has cut off the digital tools that we have come to rely on. All ISPs are shut down, cell phone service has been cut, and Al Jazeera has lost its license to broadcast within the country.

Yet the people … Read more

Facebook's next big media move: Comments

Facebook is planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a matter of weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the new product. This new technology could see Facebook as the engine behind the comments system on many high-profile blogs and other digital publications very soon.

The company is actively seeking major media companies and blogs to partner with it for its launch, part of a bigger media industry move spearheaded in part by the recent hires of Nick Grudin and Andy Mitchell, media business development executives with respective track records at Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

Representatives from Facebook … Read more

Reader comments and commentary

Many times people will read our articles and write in with tips, comments, and suggestions for their approach or solution to the issue at hand, some of which are quite practical approaches that should work for others. We welcome these comments, and hope to include them in future similar articles such as this and our MacFixIt Answers column, to bring you some points in our discussions that our readers might find useful.… Read more

Unvarnished: Person reviews or trollfest?

Updated throughout with comments from co-founder Peter Kazanjy

A new site called Unvarnished launched in beta today, and aims to do for individual people what Yelp does for restaurants and local businesses: let anyone create a profile about you and then post "reviews" about your job performance, management style, reputation, behavioral quirks, and so on. Or, put another way, it'll let co-workers or relative strangers subject you to anonymous and potentially defamatory attacks that are completely outside your control, can't be removed or edited, and are ripe for abuse. So, that sounds like a super idea. … Read more

Politician on Facebook: Anime proof that two nukes weren't enough

It must be a relief to many that our petty indiscretions, those that appear online and seem to haunt us daily, will soon become so normal as to be irrelevant.

It must be a particular relief to Nick Levasseur, a Democratic New Hampshire state representative, who, according the Huffington Post, used Facebook to offer his rather strong views on anime. Reports failed to record why Levasseur is so pained by the rather beautiful Japanese style of animation.

However, he is reported to have written on his Facebook page these rather difficult words: "Anime is a prime example of why … Read more