I've used GV on two different android phones and I have never noticed any delay at all. The talking is done through the phone system, not with VOIP. The data channel is used to tell Google to call your cell and essentially perform a call transfer.

For me it works flawlessly.

Are the costumers interested in dressing our rights in a gorilla suit?

A lot of corporations are amoral. If the law allows it and there will be no negative PR consequences, they do it. Google pretends to be moral because the good-will they get from their "Don't be evil!" directive has served them very well over the years.

Still, I don't get how providing an encrypted search is evidence of amorality? It isn't even immoral.

In other words, what are you talking about?

I can. I swear it. How strange.

If you do not like the new left side pane there is a (+) sign next to the words Hide options or Show options...

Click that. It remembers your preference.

Your eyesore is a one click opt-out.

No one is hating on Apple. At least I am not. I own a Nexus One, but I appreciate the iPhone for what it is. I just like the implementation of Android better. I've had a Smartphone since my 2002 Windows XDA, talk about a limited piece of crap...

Most people who own one, love their iPhones. All but two people I know who have them are very happy and those two mostly complain about things that are the fault of AT&T - dropped calls, poor 3G at times, not being able to tether, some MMS thing. Some of these things could be resolved by now, who knows.

My point is that, for most people, if your device does not have a feature, or does not perform a feature well, then most people work around it. They do not dwell on it. They even sometimes convince themselves that that feature is pointless.

They end up listening to the iPhone media player mostly because they do not like Pandora shutting down when you switch to another app.

They don't take their netbook on the trip to the campground because they can't tether it to their phone. They also are scared shitless of jail-breaking their super cool iPhone, so that is totally out for them.

They think things like Android's Locale isn't that great, because a process that runs in the background changing your settings such as ringer, wallpaper background and Wi-Fi depending on where you are physically located will drain your battery. "Oh, that will crash the phone and drain the battery, so what." They dismiss it.

It is human nature. It is just a way that people justify to themselves why they are perfectly happy with what they have.

For proof, reread your comment. You are doing the exact thing I am talking about.

You make valid counter points, but people often adjust thier behavior to the capibilities of a device.

"Doesn't have multitasking" - I won't listen to Pandora while I read email.

"No replaceable battery" - I won't use it on the plane to watch that movie, that way I can make sure to call a cab when I land.

"It can be tethered now" - I have AT&T and they don't allow tethering, but the AT&T 3G network is so crappy I won't even bother.

Yes, I am absolutely certain you do not have comba______

*Sound of a gun with a silencer firing*

*Sound a slashdot poster falling to the floor*

So you are either a homeless person with a borderline paranoid personality disorder OR a modern day hipster Jason Bourne without combat training.

Imagine if you put all of that effort into a humanitarian job.

As usual there is more to the story. TFA fails to mention that he was teased about it for a solid year before he decided to take action.

Rolando Negrin was exposed to fellow Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operatives' ridicule during training on the body scanners, when they copped an eyeful of his "private body parts".

Cue a year of ribbing, until Negrin attacked one of his tormentors with a baton in the airport's employee parking lot on Tuesday. In the arrest report. Negrin claims he "could not take the jokes any more and lost his mind".

Two of the three were from local source. The Pandora example was not.

From TFYTV:

Chrome Browser vs. Sound: We loaded an artist page from Pandora.com, a streaming internet radio service directly off the web on a 15Mbps internet connection.

The other two examples were indeed from a local disk copy.

For filiming purposes, the monitor was flipped on its side and the video card set to display at 180 degrees. It only appears to render bottom to top.

Please spare us the slippery slope straw man. The TFA is a well done online version of America's Most Wanted that happens to use the Google Maps API. Thanks to the newspaper industry catching up to modern technology and the police departments and the FBI finally using shared crime databases there is a slightly better chance of catching this animal.

It is so typical for a right-wing secular humanist to diss the left-wing postmodern cultural relativist Unitarian Christians for suggesting we stay off their lawn!

This is John Powers of Bryant. Are you the J. P. Lemme I know?