The focus on dramatic stories is misplaced. The simple loss of dignity in traveling should be sufficient. I'm tired of being assumed to be a criminal when I travel.

This is a really dangerous distinction. Crime is crime. Politically motivated crime is - what? Terrorism? I don't like where this is going.

Dress professionally. Keep regular hours. Work as though you were at work.

That's not true. In politics, if something fails, we sneak it into another bill a few months later.

I read every day about how Apple has won and everyone had an android phone, but in the real world, the people who say "what's slashdot?" also don't remember Windows ME or Microsoft Bob. And a computer is a Windows machine and you write Word docs, and you "make a PowerPoint" for a presentation.

Sure, people complain about Windows, but macs are just too weird and, after all, it's just a tool.

At least in this school district, they've trained another generation who thinks that computer == Windows.

I observed just yesterday, at an event, how Americans (ie, rich people, by most if the worlds standards) won't steal laptops, cameras, phones, etc., laying out in plain view, unguarded. I would never leave something sitting on a table at a public event like that, for even a minute, in Nairobi. But there were tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronics sitting out between events at this particular gathering as people wandered around looking at the other tables.

So perhaps the rich are just immoral about different things.

I'll bet this threat sells a million copies of the app. I hadn't heard of it yesterday. Now I've bought it. It was only $0.99 How many more of you did that?

I see a business plan here. What other of the default apps can I copy ...

I was with you, Eric, right up until you called the media industry execs "stupid" and "dimwits". Your arguments were clear and well stated right up to that point. However, when you call your audience dimwits, they stop listening and discount anything you've said up to that point. This is a great shame, because your letter was incredibly persuasive and non-ranty up to that moment.

I'm proud to have voted for him. I will continue to vote for him in the future. We need more senators like him who care about civil liberties, who listen to their constituents, and who understand that he is there working for me, and not for corporations.

More power to him.

So much for driving to California next summer. It'll be farther away by then.