Agreed. I'm not sure why Google should be obliged to provide free WiFi to all and sundry, but I'm sure there must be some logic that will appeal to the zealot freeloader.

OTOH, Google appears to be proposing offering a service in underserved (maybe they mean undeserved?) areas, and I recall a (heavily edited) Slashdot submission I made some time ago to that effect. At that point, the notion of implementing the idea in Tasmania was mooted, which would be welcomed by yours truly, since this state is wilfully neglected by telcos who consider it their right to charge full price for a service they are prepared to offer only patchily.

If Google is prepared to offer access to the internet even on a non-free but competitively priced model, such an option might well be preferable to the single, crappy option available to me right now. If nothing else, it might provide an incentive to the local carriers to pull up their game.

Just playing devil's advocate for a moment: if 25% of traffic accidents are caused by drunk drivers, then it follows that 75% of accidents are caused by sober drivers. Therefore, you're safer driving drunk than sober. ;-)

Where I used to live (Perth, Western Australia), that would eliminate an awful lot of dumb "ladies", but such a scene is common enough to barely raise a digitus impudicus.

The best I have yet seen (for sheer chutzpah, if nothing else) was a guy in the driver's seat of an open-top sports car with one foot on the steering wheel, cruising while playing a fricking trumpet...

I have heard it mentioned (most prominently during the Cold War, which while fresh in my memory might predate some readers' lifetimes) that America collectively has to always be fighting the "last war". Sometimes the notion that you're the "good guys" can distort your perspective.

Given how fundamentally dishonest Obama has turned out to be, I would count on the latter.

[Opinion of a non-American observer, FWIW. Give a politician a bit of power and money, and it won't take him long to show you how much of an asswipe he is.]

Or some of us just love our jobs, despite the fact that the pay sucks.

It's not that hard, Master Yoda. Just remember to capitalise "English". As for the rest, most of your readers are 1ll1ter8 ba5tard5 anyway...

Perhaps the sheep will damn themselves, given time... :-|

Not any more. He stopped in 1400 or earlier.

Indeed, orgo sounds more like an abbreviation for something that might happen in your bedroom on a lucky night.

I never found it hard to just say "organic chem" (though I usually called analytical chemistry "anal chem", despite the fact that I loved it). And while many students do seem to spend a lot of time memorising things, I found that by spending enough time actually thinking about chemistry, I quite suddenly "got it", and it made sense without having to memorise anything more than a few names of common types of compound.

Only if you consider a barracuda worth eating, which I don't...

I hate those FTFY posts, but if you are really serious about storing stuff, then you should do it yourself. The so-called "cloud" services might be convenient (depending on the cost and availability of your internet connection), but they are totally out of your control, especially if you care even the slightest about security.

If you open up a terminal emulator and ping a valid IP adress, it'll probably work, which means that the internet isn't broken. The grey doubt icons are simply an indication that Google's location services aren't working with your phone. I also have a GNex (Maguro), and this "issue" (FWIW) was fixed by simply downloading the appropriate Gapps package for CM10.2.

HTH.

Perhaps, but where CM shines is in its support for devices no longer being actively sold or supported, which even with brands like Samsung can happen only months after you've bought the phone.