So what would this do to the ability to recycle the materials? A general rule is that recyclers want you to clean glass (rightly so, as ketchup turns to pretty much carbon at the 2000 deg F required to melt glass, thus spoiling the recyc batch), but what would this do under intense heat?

I used to work for Speakeasy.

That last 10% is generally considered to be transactional overhead. Speed testers don't tend to count that. Your best advice is to either live with the 300 kb/s missing, demand a 10% discount for that overhead (which will likely be unsuccessful, because that top speed is NOT guaranteed and it will most likely say as much in the TOS), or find a provider that will provide that max speed limit at all times.

Good luck.

On Wikipedia, there's a saying: "don't stuff beans in your nose". It's an admonishment to not tell somebody not to do something that shouldn't be done; somebody's liable to do it. Not sure if this truly bears relevance, but....

I'm talking US mail. Snail mail. Like "write a well-written letter and put it in an envelope and apply address and postage and dust off the mailbox and use it for outbound mail" mail.

If you're feeling that persistent, send them one copy of the same letter per day, for ten days, or until you get a response. Which ever comes first. Make it clear in your letter that you'll do this until you get an answer, expect delays in cessation, blah blah blah. Doesn't need to be more than one per day, because if you send two, they all arrive at once. And don't send on Sunday or holidays, they'll get two on arrival. Short version: annoy them to the point of response, not to the point of anger.

Don't care. I don't use Apple. Android does what I want the way I want. If Apple's iOS did it, I'd buy it. The end.

If your electronics are lasting less than three years, you're buying shite electronics. I carry a Nexus One - it's lasted two years because I don't get it wet and take care of it, and despite a few drops on concrete here and there, has operated wonderfully for two years - the only reason I would upgrade at this point is to get a newer version of Android.

There are a few agencies.

Better Business Bureau has a small amount of clout, but is a membership agency; moreover, membership is not compulsory. There are other mmebership agencies that do similar things for its members, that are proprietary to certain functions: Automobile Association of America (AAA, or "Triple A") does things along the lines of hotels, mechanics, that sort of thing, that are held to certain standards (members join for roadside assistance benefits and discounts, among other things; businesses join for promotional reasons as a sort of franchise). Thing is, though, that's about all I know about. Other organizations exist such as EFF and ACLU, but those are more for protection of Internet rights and general civil rights, respectively, and are more concerned with government action.

In the governments, you have your attorney generals, your consumer protection bureaus, and then you have courts, be they small claim (typically less than US$5000, some variance), or courts that oversee larger judgement cases.

Overall, that's kind of how it works in the US. I wish we had a non-gov agency that did things like thi, though.

Hmm... how would one go about forming one?

Shower. Just because you work from home doesn't mean you can get in a bad habit of not washing up.

1) You cannot prove a negative in this way. Absence of evidence, here, is not evidence of absence.

2) You cannot prove that which is spiritual by science.

3) It is futile to argue the point; the only evidence you will find is evidence that there are two people at odds with each other over such a silly disagreement.

Now go get a cup of tea and relax, don't worry about this. Those of us who believe will, those of us who don't believe won't.

They don't. Asking for anything, as near as I can tell, is SOP for service of a warrant - it's to cover all possible bases by a law enforcement agency.

Picking through the details, it's pretty simple. The FBI served Google a warrant for a user.

What they will get out of it is any information on the perpetrator that Google has in their control - so Gmail, Picasa, anything on their servers. This is what a warrant does, and any content provider such as Google will have this in their TOS.

What they *might* get is a replacement account password to access the phone. That's unclear to me. It's in that respect that I don't know how Google will proceed.

What they will NOT get, however, are unlocks, text messages (unless he backs those up into his Gmail account), device passwords, device unlock patterns, or anything that would be used to unlock the device. That's all up to the mobile carrier or (possibly) the device manufacturer - not Google.

And for those who think Google made the device, no, they didn't. Somebody else did. May have been Motorola, LG, HTC, or Samsung, just to name the big four phone makers who put out Android off the top of my head. Google's support ends at the operating system development level, and whatever they have on their network. Demanding of Google whatever's on the mobile network or the device unto itself is like demanding an Amtrak schedule of Pepsico.

He did it because of your response. He knew this would happen. Well, I don't know. But that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Yours would be the most elegant solution, IMHO, in a perfect world.