"you say your mother bought himself an iPhone"? I think you know more about dt's mother than you're letting on...

Honestly though, expecting 40 year old plants to be as safe as one built today is like expecting your 1969 Camaro to have onstar and that there should be an iPhone app to remotely unlock and start it.

Comparing 60's nuclear technology to 21st century nuclear technology is inherently unfair.

This is exactly why I've kept Qwest DSL and not switched back to Crapcast, even though my speeds would be faster with a cable modem, in my area.

Fuck caps. Same reason I'm still with AT&T for the iPhone...have had that unlimited data plan since day 1 and won't give it up.

I only tried the printer sharing portion with one printer, and a non-standard type printer at that (one of the Epson 4x6 sized photo printers) and it did not work well. This was say 4 years ago though, so things might have improved. As my real printer is on ethernet, I cannot speak to how other printers may or may not work with the Airport Express. I always thought it was lame they didn't include the usb hard drive sharing, ala the Airport Extreme, as I would have used that feature. Either way they rule for streaming music around the house.

This kind of snark is exactly why Apple legal will be conversing with this fellow shortly. It's too bad really, airplay should be incorporated into every device both as a "pitcher and a catcher", regardless of the typical end use of the device.

The airport express is 99 bucks I believe. If my stupid work firewall didn't block the "apple everything" then I could look and see. I know I've seen them for $89 and $79 at times... Throw 3 or 4 around your house, they're awesome just for the airplay aspect, regardless of the other features (router, printer sharing).

Is there a technical reason that current iPhones cannot use 1700mHz, or could a software/firmware update change the landscape of iPhone data reception?

This is NOT offtopic. My post may be redundant but some mod needs to fix this.

This would be great for the customer, but when has AT$T made a move that has been good for their customers (like, how about putting up another tower near my house?!). Charging a pile of customers 45 extra bucks for even one month is AWESOME for the company. Easy choice...

Apparently you haven't driven any of the VW TDI's since the 99's came out. They're far from stinky, underpowered or, dare I say, even hip. They're just efficient, surprisingly powerful (people talk horsepower but really drive torque) and reliable vehicles. They're also highly tunable so if you want it to go fast, it's simply a matter of opening up your wallet and deciding how fast you want to go. Trust me.

Love to see the citation on this one. It'd be news to me.

Come on, at 40-50 MPG, that extra 2% in fuel cost has to be offset and exceeded by the mileage you're getting. Think as if you were driving a 2000 Dodge Ram getting 12MPG. That $0.20 seems like a drop in the bucket when you're blowing through fuel.

Right. I mostly ignored the obnoxious child and didn't buy into her attempt to bait me into confronting her on her level, and I didn't push her over as we got off the chairlift, as tempting as that would have been in hindsight.

It's ok, I didn't push the obnoxious brat off the chairlift, and I was pleased that my four year old was with me rather than my six year old, who might have caught on to how bad the 9 year old's behavior really was, and might have opted to behave similarly at some point, to my consternation. There are good kids and bad, it does not mean that I have to tolerate the bad behavior of the latter.

The vast majority of them. I see them every day at work or out on the hill, etc. Clarified that for ya.

Read TFA. Teacher does something student doesn't like, student retaliates by libeling the teacher as a pedophile, rapist and as being bipolar. This is not an appropriate response to being "mean."

I could say the same thing about any person that is insulting me, or offending me through their disrespectful, inflammatory and completely obnoxious behavior, as this little shit of a 9 yr old was yesterday, but unless you're an adult I'm not going to knock your block off. If you are, well we'll see who wins the fracas. Not all /.'rs live in their parents' basements and don't see the sun, let alone have had enough stress over the past say, decade, to have lost tolerance for assholes, especially ones that are not even old enough to drive. Honestly, as this child lives in the same valley where I live, and as I was asked to accompany her up the chairlift by her instructor, I should have waited until the instructor got to the top of the mountain to let him know how horrible his student's behavior had been on the lift, and given him my phone number to pass along to her parents. Life in a small valley can be a real bitch...