Wait, why's he got a gopro mounted to his head at a baseball game? I guess it worked out this time, but is worth looking like a giant knob the rest of the time?

Oh, the memories. We used to make this stuff (in small ~gram quantities) and paint it on door knobs and such, waiting for unsuspecting victims to com along.

Pro tip, never ever replace the fluid with alcohol (for more rapid drying), and then try to store the stuff long-term. The alcohol -will- evaporate, and the bottle -will- explode. It's the fastest way to sober up that I've ever found.

One of the things I enjoy the most is how damn smart Archer is compared to most of them but at the same time he has the common sense of a door knob.

Cell phones are a tool, nothing more or less. They can be useful (up to and including saving lives) or you can use them like an inconsiderate knob-end (up to and including killing someone).

I don't think glass in it's current form will catch on, it just looks too stupid. But the basic idea (i.e. a HUD with augmented reality)... IMO that's almost certain to become ubiquitous. Unintrusive access to data is just too useful not to.

As for the recording light, I place zero faith in it. Short of building it into a tamper proof case with sealed software, it's just too trivially easy to disable.

Again, I'm with you in that I find the implications troubling. But I think we might be the last generation to find it so. None of my friends kids has any concept of a division between private and public lives. They've all grown up with social media of one form or another, and it simply doesn't occur to them not to share everything online.

Semi off-topic but the title "NES Zapper" reminds me of the NES Advantage my little brother had. For those that don't know, it was this controller that was meant to be like a real arcade-style controller with enlarged buttons & a true post and knob joystick. It had a big base that you could set down on a coffee table or in your lap. Here's what they look like.

My brother had it in his lap, probably playing Metroid or something, and being that it was wintertime, and prime scuff-your-socks-on-the-carpet-and-static-shock-your-little-brother-season, I scuffed my socks on the carpet and touched his hand as he played. What instantly followed was like a super-powered shock that I felt as much as he did (well, not quite as much...) It turns out that the NES Advantage had a metal base, and when I shocked his hand, it fried the controller(on his lap) and it basically electrocuted his wang. He screamed like a a little girl so I was, as you can imagine, completely thrilled with the results. Unfortunately my parents didn't see things my way and they made me buy another controller. It was so worth it though.

I got a better one: Roll-type-caps, they still sell those, right?...for cap guns?

Take a roll or two-at-a-time, place on concrete ends-out, bash with mallet or the end/tip of a baseball bat. *NOTE: If using a baseball bat, hold the bat with one hand firmly by placing the knob of the bat in the center of your strongest hand and from about a foot above the caps, bring the bat's barrel-end down directly on the cap rolls.

One rolls' as loud as a .38 caliber round, two, a .45......Wear ear protection.

This dart-cap is lame and impractical, and destroys perfectly good darts, AND, there is no thrill from the smell of gunpowder, simply a lingering sulfur stink complete with lame "pop!"

Ah...the memories. We made so much of this stuff. Paint door knobs and car door handles with it, then stand back and watch the fun.

Right up until a few months later, when I found a bottle (1 ml or so) that had dried up. Gave it a shake and boom! No bottle, just holes in the fabric of the roof of the car. I'm almost positive I didn't make any more after that.

I'm no fan of Kayne, but Kimmel's kind of a petty knob for this, appealing for the easy laughs.

All those knobs make very satisfying clicks.
Yet all much over-complication..It's all can be computerized with a single "START" button.

@EvilDeathBee this is how normal humans start up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIl1U6js9KE
And this is how professionals do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV35B-vfT4U

Dammit I knew I should have gone into aviation instead of programming! I wanna flick switches and turn knobs like that and then fly up in the clouds!

"Make the United States safer". Oh, ffs. Anyone else immediately think of Ben Franklin when you hear this bullshit line? I'll trade a 9/11 and a Boston bombing every decade for the governement staying the hell out of my phone and my computer. (Omg, am I starting to sound like goptea'er?). This crap that Obama spewed the other night, roughly "you can't have both 100% security and 100% privacy", is the ol' statue-of-liberty play. He's implying that these programs provide 100% security. You can dismiss everything he says after that because his premise is FALSE. You can dismiss everything he said before that as well, but that's another rant.

And Mika, you can't demand a "yes or no" answer when you just don't want to hear the explanation. There is a very good reason why you weren't paid as much as Joe, and you should thank your lucky stars they still let you read the intros. And stop with the huffing and tsk'ing and eyerolls. You're starting to look and sound llike one of those shrill FOX "analysts".

Willie, what a dumb question. Of course there is a difference between state secrets that do not inpinge on our freedoms and rights of privacy and those that do, you knob. Some would even say the ultimate purpose of maintaining state secrets is to assist in protecting the very American freedoms and rights that are being grossly abused by these programs. The difference between Manning and Snowden is that Manning exposed warcrimes and other abuses being committed on brown people, and Snowden exposed an invasive, Orwellian-level spying and data-mining infrastructure being used on Americans by our own government. So yeah, a little different. So what? Both heroes. And it infuriates me when our government goes after them and tries to paint them as treasonists. They have committed no crimes against America because the government is not America. It's straight-up self-preservation, and has nothing to do with protecting the citizens of this country and the tenets on which this country was founded. What Manning and Snowden did, however, does.

There was once a time when democracies around the world, whether imminent, new, or struggling, could look to the US for inspiration. Now, we could learn much today from a country like Turkey. They get it. It took a few whacks with police batons, and lots and lots of tear-gas, but they get it now. They get beat down, and get smarter and angrier. We just get dumber and dumber no matter what this government says or does.

“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.”
― George Carlin

“Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!”
― Bill Hicks

Gah, I want to like him but I can't get over what a knob he is.

If they need any ideas....I used to pull the choke knob out over the RR tracks at least 3 times a week on my JH bus driver's rig....

Note that the water tap is not a door knob. I can see a tap being that high too. Low taps suck for us tall people.