An addiction is only a problem when you can't satisfy it :P

The problem was, if I didn't get my morning cup(s), I'd have headaches all day, even after I finally have a coffee. Was trying to give it up for that.

I really can't function on a normal level without at least one morning coffee, and another by about 1 PM, and again at about 4 or 5 (speaking of...). I've cut back a lot, I used to have about eight to twelve cups a day last time I was out of work (nothing better to do but play Civ for 19 hours at a time, and drink coffee). I'm down to usually no more than four cups a day, now. I successfully gave it up for a time, and then found out that due to an unrelated blood disorder, going without the coffee was actually doing me more harm than drinking too much of it, so I got myself back to four cups a day.

I don't smoke pot, but I know quite a few who do. Only one of them is your traditional dazed stoner, and I strongly suspect he's just an idiot. The others are quire functional members of society. I have known three people to be diagnosed with lung cancer from smoking tobacco, though (strangely enough, not the pack a day smokers I live with...)

You can't trust Office 2010 to play nicely with Office 2007, or 2003, either. When I need to send a document to someone, I make it in LibreOffice, and then hit that nice convenient Export to PDF button. PDF may not be the nicest of formats, and it's not editable without some source file voodoo, but it's still the best guarantee the end reader will be able to read it, and read it exactly as I made it.

I know, right? Only Apple could ever have thought of touching things on a screen!

To make matters worse, some banks even have pages you can like, making it more plausible they'd contact you on Facebook.

If I'd meant emails, I'd have said emails. I'm honestly surprised so many people in this thread had trouble with that.

He said it best. We are made of star stuff!

Just saying, if they really want to protect their users, they can do some regular expressions voodoo on their messaging system. If Gmail can recognise phishing and spam, why can't Facebook?

Numerous pages I've liked incessantly spew spam at me, my mother keeps getting messages from "facebook security" or some variation thereof, asking her to confirm her password.

I'll refrain from modrating since there's no "-1 spend five minutes on Google then come back and apologise for what an idiot you've been; following this, immediately re-evaluate every 'argument' you've been in, and figure out if you were right, or just a tool. Apologise to all those with the misfortune of meeting you".

Not to mention having to charge an LCD device at least daily. I get a good two weeks of reading out of my Kobo.

The Kindle Fire and the Kobo Vox, while being far more versatile than previous models, completely miss the point of an ebook reader. If I wanted to read books on an LCD screen constantly stabbing my eyes with a bright backlight, I'd read on my Android tablet, or my laptop. The reason I bought one of the first gen Kobo ereaders is because of the e-ink screen.

I'd wager I had a more statistically significant sample space than one phone over the two years I worked there (that comes out as far more bitter and snide than I intend it...). Most of them weren't visibly obviously jailbroken and on the occasions I asked, the customers didn't even know what jailbreaking was, or why anyone would need to do it. In may ways, Mackay is a very isolated community.

I certainly have inflammatory and biased opinions on occasion, but I don't "troll" for any reason. Even if nobody else believes that, it's the one bit of integrity I maintain on the internet. My statements may be wholly based on anecdotal evidence, not rigorous statistical testing, but I'm commenting on a summary of a news article, not writing a scientific paper.

The alternative in this filthy inbred swamp of a town: Me appz n shit was goin' slow so I threw the fuckin' thing at the wall, and now it's broken! I wanna new one under warranty!

Wasting my ability to moderate on feeding the trolls, that's what Slashdot is about...

iOS does need to reboot every couple of days. When I was working in a phone shop this was the kind of thing that happened so many times daily that I lost count each day. Someone would come in "my iPhone is slow" or "my apps are closing when I open them" or "my iPhone has frozen on the home screen". *SIGH* Don't ANY of you people read the manual, or try GOOGLE?! Hold the lock and the home button for about eight seconds, it should restart. Next please. *SIGH* Lock and home, eight seconds, go away.