I picked a good year to get licensed for ham radio. I sure get sick of hearing about how you can work Australia on a wet noodle during high Sunspot years. At least the low bands are reliable, but then again those bands require ginormous antennas. So as a consequence my house looks like some sort of martian communications test zone. I think my neighbors fear me enough not to seriously ask what's going on.

Dear Lincoln,

Ha ha old man, I had to spend much in sabotaging your CO2 monitoring satellite. But now all your base are belong to us.

Signed,
Chairman Mao
Chinese Empire

I think that my original statement is pretty on-topic and relevant though the Google Fanboys Klub has modded it otherwise.

Obviously few people on this thread understand how email works or what the consequences of it may be.

The fact is that Google will be the recipient of emails going to the highest levels in the Government. They will be able to scan them, read them, etc. I don't care whether they're forwarding or storing, they still are the first point of routing and thus have full control over what happens to them. This is not appropriate any more than having RIM as an intermediary to the President's priviledged Blackberry communications.

But by all means, go back to droning "but they do no evil" if it makes you feel better.

I support Obama, even canvassed for him, but I smell poo. This is actually worth considering because...

1) Google was Obama's #1 campaign contributor and has already received a number of "special considerations" that embed them into the Obama administration.

2) Once you start using an email address it is with you forever unless you're willing to dump all of your contacts. Not to mention force of habit.

3) Lame other reason here cause we must speak in threes to sound convincing.

Hate to be the paranoid guy when I'm usually working the opposite angle, but I don't like where this is going.

Eisenhower had it right when after liberating a concentration camp he told the troops to pick up every scrap of film, every picture because someday some idiots would claim that it never happened.

People should have their noses rubbed in it. Faces can be obscured to protect the participants but the American public needs to know what these people it elected did.

People usually pick inferior successors, egomaniacs even moreso. Makes their own "term in office" look better. It was Jobs who set up that failure and Jobs who profited from it on his return.

FWIW I also have had to replace 4 out of about 15 CFLs in the 2-3 years I have been using them. No cost savings seen here whatsoever, plus the disposal (mercury) requires a special trip to the recycling plant.

Some manufacturer out there (got mine at Lowes/Walmart) is selling some crap bulbs.

Dynamic allocation of frequencies has been around for quite some time, it's called a trunked system.

I guess the hype here is that they're using SDR technology to do it and a few neat tricks with wifi as well. Must be about time to sell the next generation of new radios to the gov/corp worlds.

I tend to agree with the earlier poster who said simpler is better. At least having a simpler backup system seems reasonable here for the early adopters anyway.