Part of the issue is that Fox programming can be received over-the-air with an antenna for free. Sure, they should obviously be allowed to charge the cable companies (whatever price the market will bear) for non OTA channels (Fox News, Fox Sports, etc.), but they shouldn't be cutting off what are known as "broadcast basic channels" - those channels are already freely broadcast and funded by advertising. The only cost to the cable companies to carry OTA channels should be whatever it costs Fox to provide them a clean feed of the signal.

My solution:

1) Cancel my Cablevision TV service (their rates are way too high anyway). I've been thinking about it for a while, and I think this latest dispute is the last straw.
2) Connect antenna to TV.
3) Watch FOX.
4) No profit for either of them.

I can buy all of the shows that I want to watch from iTunes or Amazon and still come out way cheaper than my current cable TV bill. And that's ignoring the "torrent" option that many people will choice to use instead...

I used to use Bloglines years ago, but switched to Google Reader quite a while ago. I guess I wasn't the only one... I'm glad to see they're making it easy for remaining users to move their feeds to a new service instead of just quietly disappearing one day. (Although it's a good idea to back up your feed list to OPML periodically regardless of who your newsfeed provider is, just in case.)

Apps that do just that are starting to appear...Check out Waze if you haven't seen it yet. They've built entire country maps from scratch with their client (they started with a base map first in the U.S.)

I would guess that the official major studio YouTube accounts are exempt from this "feature."

You can buy multiple tickets together, but the cardholder must be attending the event. So for a kid, a parent would have to go too, put it on their credit card, and pay for a ticket for themself. And that's why TicketMaster loves it...

Nope. From the article: "On its Web site, Ticketmaster tells would-be gift givers to buy paperless tickets 'on the credit card of the person attending the event and [then] reimburse them.'"

Too bad I no longer have access to PSN since I refused to install the update that would have removed Linux support from my console, so I won't be able to use this premium subscription. Maybe I'm cynical, but I read "nothing planned will impact the service’s current free aspects" as "of course, any NEW multiplayer games you buy will be subject to the new 'premium' requirement to play online"... Sony does have a documented history of promising one thing and then doing exactly the opposite.

Not that I'm aware of. If it is a requirement (and I've never heard that it is), they're certainly not doing it. I can see my Amazon purchases on my order history page going back to 1999 (when I started shopping there.)

Yes he looked like an RPG guy to me too, acted suspiciously, and could've taken down the chopper at any moment. This is not Call of Duty, you don't get to reload when your chopper blows up because of your "good faith in men".

How do you like Raleigh? My wife and I are considering moving to South Carolina from Illinois, and while I know Raleigh is a bit to the north, I'd be interested to get your take on the area.

since I liked my first puff of cigarette smoke I was addicted from the first puff.

Not at all and you're correct that physical addiction takes some (variable) amount of time, depending on the substance. That said, I find it very hard to believe you actually liked/enjoyed your first N cigarettes. The motivators to take up smoking are varied, but "enjoy" in the common sense of the word isn't one of them. Thoughts to the contrary are, I suspect, rose-colored remembrances.

"almost nothing in the box" - what else should be init besides the unit, sync cable and getting started manual?

sync 20GB takes a long time. Not much different than moving 20GB from HD to HD!

Doesn't have folders? I put my items in folders and lists on my HD and that arrangement transfers over in the sync.

Apps asking for location: Sounds like an app developer issue, not the iPad. The iPad isnt asking you for location.

The first is that a lot of websites are serving iPhone pages to the iPad. Again, the problem of the site developers not the iPad.

Flash uses mouse events that are not available on a touch screen.

The NetFlix app is really nice, but it doesn't let me rate selections using their little star system. Again, mouse events.

One user account. That's because the content distributors don't want users sharing content. Not really an apple issue. Plus, multiple user accounts will dramatically diminish disk space.

Weight of the device. Lots of people said it was heavier than they expected. However, one review said their pre-teen children said it was light. Maybe we need go outside and play more to tone up.

I'll end up getting one and using it most of the time as digitial picture frame. For the added functionality its a huge cost saving to comparable feature sets.

This is not what war is like, this is what cowardice looks like. If armored infantry are so afraid of 8 photographers walking down the middle of the street that they have to hide inside their armored vehicles waiting for a helicopter to investigate, then those infantrymen are chickenshits. Plain and simple. I'm sure you'll say that the grunts just want to make sure they don't get dead, but the fact is that they're armed to the teeth and in a city crawling primarily with unarmed civilians. They are going to have to be men and not hide behind FLIR gun pods.

"Hearts and minds" and all that.

Which video were you watching? There wasn't a single gun in the whole video, until the US troops turned up.