Call me a troll, but I can hardly wait for a $700 iPod touch competitor.

I am just sick of essentially being double charged by advertisers. I have to pay for data access on my device, then I am paying for the data transfer that the advertisers use and with wide open throttle, they will use a lot. That to me is NOT ok

You nailed it. I worked for the TSA in early 2005 for 5 months until I understood if I ever wanted to work for a agency or NGO again I needed to leave asap.

-i ts a little unclear, there was no actual threat, it was a meeting about SOP.

I started the long difficult process of leaving a federal job after during training/testing after one day I went through a checkpoint with a dummy IED on my person getting it past the screeners and not alarming on anything. This was at a level IV International airport. I worked with some good dedicated people, but the other 90% were there for a fed paycheck and cared nothing about security. At one security meeting during a briefing on active shooter or bomb threat on the secure side one lady screeches "that an'int mah job, no way I am going down there [to help evacuate, NOT to intervine], I didn't sign up for that. No way, uht uh!".

I joined all excited, I'll start in screening like everyone else and move in to one of the more obscure TSA roles (undercover security testing, behavior interpretation, EDO,etc) . After 5 months it was clear the only seniority was considered for advancement, not prior experience or intelligence. Top heavy and poor performance (saw a screener put his hand on a gun in a bag and pass it though without finding it in the training environment) Having to do pat downs at the gate of active military members because they had a one-way ticket. Not doing background checks on screeners for months after they started (8 weeks in I was informed they lost my SF86 and I had to do another one!?!), the list is huge and there is the pages of documents of stuff I signed saying I wouldn't ever mention.

What is this, the 50th story on bad passwords on /. this year? Yes we all use bad passwords on sites what hold no relevant data. I use a weak password sites that require a login of some kind to read or post. I guess I am not a total sheep since even my "weak" password have no meaning to me, it's just a long word thats easy to type (in my crappy, poor form typing style), if the OTC password system requires a number I just add one on the beginning or end. At best cracking these for someone would capture my email address, but who cares, I get tons of spam that never makes it to my inbox. I rarely use my real name even if they ask for it. I think a big part of the problem is the OTC systems. What one shows as "strong" another website will declare "weak".

I used to have one bank account and every time I loged in it had a login, pass phrase, password, and icon with no alt text that required a one word description to validate me. That was a very strong and very annoying, it took about 5 minutes to login and frankly I just don't have that much money. "We" really need a new way to validate our usage. I don't remember George Jetson, Nero or Han Solo having these kinds of problems. When will then be now?

I have a black Nissan Titan with a 6 inch lift and a winch bumper that is made from 1/4 steel. My tires are 35x ProComp Xterrains and my truck has a Banks exhaust (not my choice, it's annoyingly loud, rumbles even at idle), The truck is huge, ominous and pushing 400HP with a wide open exhaust. People step in front me all the time in parking lots. In fact the one thing I don't like about my truck is that the windshield edges are huge blind spots. Some lady tried to walk in front of me today in the parking lot of a local box store. HEY STUPID, IF YOU CAN'T SEE THE DRIVERS FACE, HE CAN"T SEE YOU. [anyone with issues with guys that drive big trucks; I am in Alaska, I am a volunteer medic and wilderness rescue tech. I have used the winch on my truck no less then 120 times to pull stuck cars out of snow banks, rivers, etc since I bought it in 2006]

What mainstream phone has even been "open". First you are paying the minimum of a 30 day contract to use the phone on someones "network". That regardless of ALL ELSE makes it closed, add you have to pay for "data", then pay for apps (you are paying with either info, ads or $). To put it another way; Phones by their very nature are closed and bound systems.

Agreed; as a resident of Hawaii and Alaska, I spend an inordinate amount of time harvesting from the ocean. Fish will bite at their bait, where is very important and what is less so. You choose to fish, you will catch something unless there are no fish. I don't consider it sport, its food for me. I can limit every time I fish for salmon because I know where to go.

Were talking about fishermen, a select set of mainly men that are at the same time highly technically proficient and low tech.

The nations in the summary are bastions of free speech.. Oh, wait, not their not.

Yup, I was looking at something on Amazon and called a local shop to see if they had it and for what price. Sure enough they had it, I asked "how much?" and I was informed that they do not give out prices over the phone. In turn I told them I was looking at the exact same item on Amazon with free shipping and if they feel that price comparing customers are not something they are interested I can just hit the 1-click on Amazon. He said "whatever, we don't give out prices over the phone, you have to come in to find out how much it is". I am not going to do business with that kind of shop, clearly they are only looking for uninformed customers.

Been to a Bed Bath and Beyond? Their prices on so much are out of line. I only go there for K-Cups and those prices are fine, but just about everything else is 30% higher (according to my bar code app that shows local and online prices of the exact same item) and they refuse to match prices from my phone even after I show them how it works.

Define irony? Maybe not, maybe it's to help you avoid sites that are overly simplistic?

I had some ebay items removed for "violating" a trademark. They were HK (Heckler & Koch) auto decals that I legally obtained. HK filed a complant with ebay. Pretty lame when you can't sell stuff you bought and own because someone else made it.