Hmmm, on Sprint I was able to block EITHER or BOTH of: 1. Phone to Phone 2. Internet SMS I ended up blocking just 2 to stop spam, but anyone with a phone can still text me. I did have the option of blocking all texts also. Sounds like you got a bad carrier and/or rep who did not want to do that for $ome rea$on. My carrier works for me.

From the article, it looks like Skyhook is Wifi based, not GPS. Wifi is possible to fake, by changing the mac address. If you are in europe, and want US market access, just find a mac located in the US, update your wifi to the US mac, and you now appear to be in the US. The Google market place is location dependent, and there probably contracts that make sure you buy in the right location. I doubt Google had much choice in rejecting it based on pre-existing contracts. Is skyhook difficult to spoof? Jam? GPS is much more stable. As far as I know, you can JAM GPS, but with needing multiple satellite (mine says 5 sats minimum) I don't of anyone who can tamper with it and change your apparent location with a external signal.

The Palm Pre and Pixi have optional wireless chargers, and as I had a Pre, I can say it worked great and the charge time of wired vs wireless was almost the same. With a new back holding the charging coil, the weight was almost nothing on the phone side. Put one in my car as a mobile docking station, and loved it. Now if they only put a EVO sized screen on a Pre it would be perfect. http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/handheld/categories/palm/1/accessories/FB300AA%2523AC3;HHOJSID=hq1gMTPGvpKRTN0tQbjCQ3rSrlHvwSLRkPkz5579v79zvbKdqTJL!1977121832

I have the EVO 4g, and the 4g is somewhere between worthless, and a handicap. If I leave it on, it sucks down the battery VERY quickly, and turning it on and off gets old quick. I can do everything I need it for with 3g. I have not jail broken it as I don't need tethering. 3g EVDO works just fine. I do know about the 5gig cap on 3g, where as 4g does not have a cap. I got it for the 1ghz, Android, and 4.3 screen to replace my palm pre. The 4g-wimax chip also does the wifi, and has a max power usage of 350ma. Wimax on a phone just can not go through buildings well enough to be a turn it on and forget it without killing a battery. Now at home I have a larger more powerful Wimax modem for home use, and I have 5 hardware computers, along with 10 or so VM's all sharing a single 3Mpbs/1Mbps Wimax connection, and other then ping times in the 100-350ms range, it works just fine.

Did you ever clean the fan? Dirt and dust will add to the electrical load from the fan motor while reducing the the cooling capacity causing it to over heat.

Add another me too to the glossy haters club. I think Apple started it as their form over function design criteria, and when you look at one in the store it would stand out.

Not Entirely. DVI-A can be adapted, but DVI-D can not. Most computers and devices that output DVI-A have the extra analog pins. They are easy to spot as the 2 above and 2 pins below the flat connector. I have seen a LOT of displays that are DVI-D only and are missing the pins. You can see them on a monitor that lacks the capacity. Overall a dual DVI-A&D is better then a VGA+DVI-AD

I worked at a microwave oven repair place, and a co worker would make it run with the door open, and put his hand in. I never did as I was worried about having a small spot in my hand get super heated due to a poor spread on the microwaves. He stopped when he forgot to take off a wedding ring and got a bad burn. After training I never worried about a microwave or other RF non-ionizing radiation.

Sorry but a bow tie is not going to help. Here in Las Vegas, I have the most problems with 3 NBC(broadcast on digital 2),8(CBS),10(PBS),& 13(ABC), All VHF. I can get channel 5(Fox) more then 99% of the time. The 2 main UHF 21 and 33 I can receive, but are worthless channels.

I have created a poor signal environment with my computers and servers with clear cases. The antenna is on opposite end of my condo to avoid interferance from the computers, and on INSIDE because of the Home Owners Association. I don't have a lot of options and my HDTV is one with a poor tuner. A good part of the problem is self inflicted, but it DID work better with analog TV. The only broadcast TV I watch is news. Everything else is via the internet.

I also get worse reception. My DTV picks up 1 channel. I tried everything including a 6' outdoor antenna to pick up a signal 35mi away, something that rabbit ears USED to pick up. I eventually settled for a converter box that down converts to 640x480. I get all the old channels at analog quality, with frequent digital freezes and glitches. Slight snow is easy to watch through compared with a digital signal. I do get some new HOME SHOPPING channels that I don't want. Thank %deity% for Hulu, netflix, ect. Is it too late to go back?

For a more entertaining look at a naked black hole see http://www.amazon.com/Compleat-McAndrew-Charles-Sheffield/dp/067157857X "The Compleat McAndrew" by Charles Sheffield Good read on how to use and abuse a black hole for fun and profit.

The law does not define what is human, other then by the generic description of "homo sapiens" How about a fully artificial set of chromosomes from a computer database created in a lab? Without a VERY clear definition of human, that we currently don't have, these type of laws are useless. Is someone with downs syndrome human? they have a extra whole chromosome. How about someone who gets infected with a retrovirus. They now have a mix of human and virus DNA. How about people who are XXY, XXYY, XYY or other sexual genetic abnormalities? We share a LARGE portion of our DNA with everything from monkeys, dogs, mice, insects and even flowers. First define "Human", and by then many humans will be mixed with "animals" to make the laws worthless and conflict with the bill of rights along with many other laws. People, mostly the very religious, just don't want the understanding that "human" is just another kind of specialized animal.

26/70 Here. My favorite was 11. If I'm sure I'm right about something, I don't waste much time listening to other people's arguments. I am NOT going to waste time arguing that 1+1 is anything other then 2 (except here where it is 10). Usually there is one right answer and a near infinite amount of wrong answers. Yes 11 is less wrong then potato, but both are wrong mathematically speaking.

I gave up my cable for a combination of OTA, BT, Hulu and the library in 2007. In addition to those other sources, SOME cities have a good public library system. Here in Las Vegas, NV you can get almost anything that is available on DVD. Sometimes they don't have a lot of copies of the popular items, but you can get on a waiting list. I am currently catching up on my SG-1, SGA, Star Trek DS9, BSG, Dr. Who & Torchwood. It's almost a perfect system.