I know people who'd love to take them off of your hands (mostly college students). "Old" TVs can still be made to work with a digital tuner card

This is true, and it's going to get even easier in future Android releases. Froyo (2.2) is slated to include tethering and a wireless hotspot.

that's actually not that difficult at all. Hydrogen bombs are uncontrolled fusion in action. Now, producing usable energy, however...

I was simply using the same terminology as OP

I don't think the PC is going to meet its demise anytime in the foreseeable future. Microsoft dominates the business sector right now because it caters to businesses in a way Apple doesn't. Apple may take over the home user market, but until they convince businesses to adopt their ideologies PCs won't be dying anytime soon

They'll be putting money away for their own welfare checks!

I have heard mixed things about the security about Kaspersky. Been running it myself without any problems, but I have friends in IT who are SysAdmins who say they can't trust it because of how it might be handling customer data (Sorry, no real citations here)

The difference between genuine R&D (HP Labs) and Cupertino R&D (Apple) is almost exactly 10 miles

How many more years of this before other industries like software (SecuROM anyone?) come away with the obvious conclusion as well? DRM doesn't do anything but restrict legitimate purchasers of the product, people who illegally obtain things don't have to deal with such inane restrictions

I get a "security error" when I try to view the actual picture from that website...anyone have another link?

source?

Students already pay for the "services" we use...a huge number of CMU and UPitt students live off-campus after their freshman year, which means all utilities/etc are taxed normally. These schools also charge their students $40/year (which goes to the city) to allow students to get onto city buses for "free" anytime. Student life is hard enough as it is, This is just an asinine short-sighted attempt to make some quick cash. If this gets enacted universities and students are going to remember it for a long, long time. I'm sure the damage to the city's reputation is going to take a much worse hit than the simple increase in revenue.

I think a major reason they did this was because of customers abusing buy-one-get-one-free offers on smartphones. Under the old fees structure it was possible to buy two and resell/terminate on one device, thus leading to a net profit at the expense of Verizon

They've been doing that on Celebrity Jeopardy for years!

"I'll take Catch the semen for $800"