What a ridiculously useless list...

1. Camera flash. It's not useless, people are just idiots, there's a difference. If you use the farking thing correctly, then it works just fine. Way to lower the bar.
2. Apple TV Remote? Yeah it sucks, but it's in the "top 12"? Are you sure that you guys have been around for more than a year?
3: DVD ROMS. Seriously, flash drives? How the fark am I supposed to buy new software if for some reason I DON'T Want to wast all of my bandwidth downloading it? You DO realize that the DVD you pop in a player to watch your Justin Bieber movies on is a DVD ROM, even if it's a Blu-Ray disk, right? What's your solution? Oh, that's right, 40,000 flash drives hanging around the house.
4: Electric range. Once again, you're not using it correctly. Modern electric ranges are just as responsive as gas. 10 years ago, you would have had a point, but things have changed. Maybe you guys need to update things at the Wired offices?
5: Adobe Flash. Basically since your iPhone won't play it, due to an APPLE decision, it's the fault of the software. Got it. Apple fanboi, check!
6: Yeah, I don't know about your "Hornit" thing, never heard of it, but given your track record so far, I'm guessing that you're either using it wrong, or it isn't anywhere near as bad as you say.
7: Bluetooth headsets. So you don't like people who use them in public, but you think they're OK in the car? So why is it the headset that is the problem here? Isn't it the assholes who insist on making their phone calls as loud as possible, so that everyone will know how cool they are? Yeah, once again you're not using it right. Seems to be a lot of that going around.
8: The electric guitar? I don't even know what to say about that, except that you probably aren't using it right.
9: Leaf blowers, yet another thing where you have a problem with the USERS and not the device, i notice.
10: Onscreen Alphabetic Keyboards. I'll give you this one. They suck, but one of the 12 worst of "All Time", when it's still a transitional technology? I suppose you want a direct brain interface instead?
11: "Wall Warts". These have been around forever, and we have to change power to DC and get the voltage correct somehow. You either have this, or you have a plug with a black rectangular box that sits on your floor and you trip over. Pick your battle, the box has to go somewhere, and if you want it to disappear altogether, then your half inch thick LED TV is going to have to get larger, as the power transformer is added into the chassis.
12: Wires. Pretty ironic thing to biatch about, considering that you are called "Wired". These aren't "annoying pieces of technology", they're necessary.

You for got one:
13; Wired.com


PS: Your blog really, REALLY does suck. I would have expected better from a 3rd grader. It's like you looked around the room after waking up passed out in the kitchen this morning, you moron.

steamingpile: HeartBurnKid: The only thing worse than Flash is everything else that has tried to replace Flash.

Flash was vastly superior to real time which is how a lot of video was embedded in websites. 

It was a lot.....buffering.....worse than flash.........buffering..........buffering.........ever dreamed........buffering........buffering......buffering of be..........buffering....ing.

True. So that's two things worse than Flash: everything it replaced, and everything trying to replace it.

No mention of slideshows and twatter?

Bad list.

Camera Flash: Useful if you know how to use it. Don't blame the product for user failure.

Apple TV Remote: Great solution, buy a product from someone else. Fully admit I hate Apple with a passion. Rip off other companies, then sue everyone for supposedly ripping off the idea you ripped off. Yeah, great company, reminds me a lot of Microsoft.

CD/DVDs: Ummmm, ultrabook sales aren't nearly what the media wants them to be, and the same thing with the MacBook Air. I can agree with putting items on thumb drives, but these won't disappear anytime soon (see: movie industry).

Electric Range: I will NEVER own a gas range. You can achieve the same level of quality from an electric range in your cooking provided you actually pay attention to how you cook. Most of my friends and family have switched from gas to electric due to bad quality of parts and leak-related issues that were caused by the manufacturer.

Adobe Flash: Should have been stillborn, imho.

Hornit: I don't ride bikes, too damn dangerous to do such on streets around here. Have NEVER seen or heard a hornit before. Frankly, cyclists need to learn to obey the rules of the road. If a cyclist was riding a bike in the middle of the road, then they should be gently tapped by a vehicle back onto the side of a lane where they belong.

Bluetooth headsets: Agree that they should NOT be used at registers, or when trying to get assistance finding an item in a store. Otherwise, I'll continue to wear mine because I don't see the reason to take it off when I'm running in to pick up a box of screws in Lowes.

Electric Guitar: You want one to be annoyed with? Electric drum sets. Come sit on my pool deck sometime and listen to the idiot the next street over with no musical aptitude whatsoever...

Leaf Blower: Agree only if used to blow leaves off your lawn and onto something else. I use my electric one to blow grass clippings back onto my grass. Wonderful fertilizer.

Onscreen Alphabetic Keyboards: Try looking at a Dvorak keyboard sometime, your mind will be blown.

Wall Warts: Agree with everything but the "look for a replacement". Good luck on that score with some tech.

Wires: You'll pry my wired connection from my cold, dead hands...unless you can give me wireless that functions at the same level. Until then, I'll strangle you if you try.

the author is welcome to go rake my mothers 3 acre yard, sweep the patio, sweep the deck and the front porch and rake out all 5 of the major gardens by hand if he wants.

me, i'll keep the leaf blower

List FAIL: the electric guitar in on it (go back to your coffee house, hippie)

Massive list FAIL: autotune was left off

"The decline of CD and DVD ROM drives is punctuated by the rise of ultrabooks and the MacBook Air."

wow, I can smell the potchuli and smug from here off this asshole.

This person wants a world without external ac adapters, wires, hates external media, hates flash and has apple tv.

The writer has this vision of a shiny, beautiful, simple world that apple seems to symbolize. Not sure if he came into the world neurotic or Apple programmed him that way.

ThreadSinger: One technology I'd like to see abolished? Those damn, custom exhaust resonators on cars to make them sound "throatier". There's probably a more technical term, I don't know what it is. .



Fart cans.

List fails without "mouse-over popup menus".

hogans: This guy thinks electric ranges are annoying? Please.

I've been using gas for the last twenty years. The burners have two settings: scorch beyond recognition, and cremation. If you ever want to get a pot to simmer, you're better off using a candle.

Then you've been doing it wrong. After 20 years, you should really learn how to cook.

enry: Voiceofreason01: CPT Ethanolic: For the worlds most annoying technology, press 1. To repeat this option, press 2.

For the worlds most annoying technology, say "one". To repeat this option, say "two".

Please pay attention as the options have changed.

Para continuar en Español, oprima numero once.

OSULugan: EnderWiggnz: gas stoves continue to work when the lights are out....

except the pilot light.



Try that on your heating element.

Wires: When you want your shiat to be fast and perfectly reliable.
"Wireless": For what you want your shiat to be farked up because someone decided to make a bag of popcorn.

So the guy from Wired hates wires...

HeartBurnKid: The only thing worse than Flash is everything else that has tried to replace Flash.

Flash was vastly superior to real time which is how a lot of video was embedded in websites. 

It was a lot.....buffering.....worse than flash.........buffering..........buffering.........ever dreamed........buffering........buffering......buffering of be..........buffering....ing.

List fails without Facebook.

If the power is out, doesn't an electric stove convert to it's other function?

A fridge...

Quite a bit of "I don't use this, so no one else needs it" and "some people misuse it so it must be eliminated" but I'll focus on two of the most egregious failures:

Electric ranges: News flash... not every household in America has natural gas service, and electric won't blow up your entire apartment building when the idiot in 4B leaves an unlit burner on.

Wires: You think crosstalk and interference are a problem now, try putting everything in the unlicensed spectrum. Not to mention giving the "brain cancer" tinfoil hat brigade that much more fodder.

GAT_00: vartian: GAT_00: Flash? Must be an Apple Fanboi.

People like Flash?

And just watching that guy bike through London made me think I would never try to ride in a city without the Hornet.

The only people in my experience that utterly hate it are Apple people, since Apple decided they were going to kill Flash all on their own. To everyone else, it's one of those things they don't realize is there until it crashes.

This is the one he gets right; every third week there is another CVE. Flash deserves to have Keyser Soze unleashed on it right after he's done with Java.

gas stoves continue to work when the lights are out....

I dunno, I rather like CD-Rs/DVD-Rs, but then I like having write-once disks for backups of critical files.

I don't really have a problem with wall-warts, though I really wish that more devices would standardize on connectors (like microUSB and mobile phones), voltages, and currents. Considering how bloody tiny they can make switching power supplies these days, having Big Chunky Adapters for low-current devices makes little sense. Also, would it kill them to put a $0.05 regulating circuit on the power supplies? Wireless charging for common devices like mobile phones would be handy, for sure, but how do they propose that other electronics get the DC power they require?

Electric ranges are awesome: I can set mine to a precise number (which corresponds to output power) and things are golden. Then again, I do have this range which is quite nice. Only disadvantage is that it is made out of that glass-ceramic stuff which is annoying to clean when stuff gets baked on. It also scratches a bit. Electricity gives me a lot more flexibility than just gas: electricity can be generated from numerous sources (nuclear, hydro, wind, gas, coal, etc.) while gas appliances require gas.

Wires offer far better performance than wireless connections. Yes, 802.11g/n is fast enough for most stuff around the house and is hugely convenient and clutter-free, but in a radio-noisy environment like an apartment building with lots of other Wi-Fi users, having a wired network is nice. Pushing a few hundred gigabytes over a wireless link is painful -- transferring a disk image to my home storage system over 802.11g would have taken ~10-15 hours and had variable, unpredictable speeds. It finished in about 30 minutes over gigabit ethernet.

vartian: GAT_00: Flash? Must be an Apple Fanboi.

People like Flash?

And just watching that guy bike through London made me think I would never try to ride in a city without the Hornet.

The only thing worse than Flash is everything else that has tried to replace Flash.

A long time ago a company named Macromedia released Flash.

At the risk of showing my age:

A really long time ago, a company called FutureWave released a product called FutureSplash. This product was eventually acquired by Macromedia because it was much easier to use than Director/Shockwave, which was Macromedia's competing product. The product was renamed, "Flash".

Flash? Must be an Apple Fanboi.