I recently got a Blackberry Z10, and I'm actually thinking of giving away my personal iPhone now.

You're not shit canned, you're shift planned!

And my iPhone 4 is all but unusuable now, with no way to go back to iOS 6.

Yeah, what's next, turning on the microphone and cam on the ipad so we can make sure the kids are not being abused at home?

Great success!!

Yeah, I'd be embarrassed to have a LinkedIn account too.

Or give them your cell phone number when prompted?

I came here to say the same thing. Yahoo is on a roll.

WOW!! This is lifechangingingly awesome!!! Thank you Slashdot!!!!!

PS: That was sarcarsm.

Actual cause of death: Run over by a paving machine.

If everyone on Slashdot does a Google search right now for "Guy Hingston is an asshole", we can get rid of the bankrupcy reference!

It was because in those days all the talk was about covergence of TV and Computers. Of course, MS completely missed the whole mobile and tablet shift that came a few years later, so xbox may now not fit into their future plans. Who knows.

So true.. Kids today are very well versed in the Internet (Facebook, Twitter, email, etc), but have no idea of anything technical like setting up a network or troubleshooting hardware. There are exceptions, of course, the nerds who have the interest and might go into IT. But generally, kids are strictly users like most of our parents were.

Funny, that's exactly what we said in the 60's, 70's and 80's when we used 2 digit year codes to save space.

In Canada we have sales tax applied at the checkout, so whatever the price ends with, .99 or .00 or something else, doesn't matter.