And... it's designed by a company that wants to make as much money as possible. This is the only reason I can figure out for why my BF's last 3 phones had the cancel and connect to Internet button as the same button. God forbid you press cancel twice. Ug.

I can't wait to start making money off of my license plate. Oh wait... who gets the ad revenue exactly? Oh..

What's next- ads on my garbage cans, my mail box and the bandages I'm wrapped in when I go to the hospital?

Ug.

Why this obsession with an arbitrary numerical goal. I would think that a company which is able to pay it's employees and owners very well, and provide excellent benefits and reasonable or even shorter work hours would be much more of a 'success' to me than one that pushes and pushes and squeezes every drop out of it's employees just to reach a $5 billion dollar goal.

Our society is better served by having multiple smaller companies who treat their staff well. It gives the consumer more choice, and employees more freedom to seek out a different or better employment situation. If there's only one big company to work at... you as an employee have fewer choices and less bargaining power. I'm all for big sales and profits- but I'm more interested in where it ends up. In the CEO and board's pockets? If that's the case then the $5 billion is practically worthless.

I would be more inclined to give celebrities protection from being filmed/photographed when going about their lives before I'd give it to the police. Celebs are not public employees, and how many famous people's messed up issues stems from being in the spot light 24/7. Police on the other hand are accountable to all of us. Heck, here in Canada there was a case of a guy being tasered to death and it was caught on camera. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser_incident

You know... there was a time when I would have thought this bill was a no-brainer and should be passed in every country. But recently, reading the Hyperion 4 part series by Dan Simmons changed my mind about that. Well, it at least got me thinking a little deeper about this.

Reminds me of the Portable PCs they had in the movie Red Planet: http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content07/red-planet-map-display.jpg

It's the word that goes best with 'guy'. No one uses 'gal'. So normally we'd say - I'm going out with the girls. Where you might say, I'm going out with the guys. You don't say, I'm going out with the men/women.

Except that techie girls have been calling themselves 'geekgirls' for a longer time than that. It's too common of a word/phrase.

This is so painfully obvious I wonder why the industry doesn't see it. If you can get something for free, you'll grab a lot more than if you would have to pay for it. Also, there are a lot of 'pirates' who download games they come across "just in case" but never end up installing. I even knew a guy would download and burn games to disks just to collect them, even though he rarely got around to installing or playing even a quarter of the # he downloaded.

Considering that Natal hasn't even launched yet, other groups might want to hold off and see what the reception is to Natal before they start copying it. I for one bought a Wii and was sorely disappointed in the non-precision of the wii-mote. I also have an Xbox and I fear that Natal will be just as annoying. I hope some cool uses of it are created though.

People have been using the “it’s in public” argument here, but there is a difference between in public and only easily accessible by your close neighbours, and accessible by the whole world. What if Google started coming by and scanning with an infra-red camera? Would you respond by telling people that their body heat is radiating out through the walls and can be detected from the street- therefore it’s public!? If you don’t want someone using an infra-red camera you should have built your walls differently ?! Come on. Not everything that is out in public should be open for anyone to collect and do whatever they want with.

What I want to know is - WHY is Google doing this? "Just because they can" is not enough of an answer.

I find the 3D movies darker and less vibrant. I also wear glasses so the 3D glasses overtop of my glasses is awkward, heavy and the 3D glasses are too far out from my head so they're a bit blurry. Bleh.

I assume you can still record with a VCR by setting the date and time of the recording right?

This is why they can get away with it; Lenders sign up as many new lending accounts as possible. They have certain % that will default or are fraudulent. They buy insurance for this risk. The insurance company sells insurance policies which it says have a certain risk (low compared to the # they sell) of actually being claimed on. An insurance policy is something that keeps making money (with a certain % risk of being claimed on). These policies are sold as investment instruments (insurance bonds) to investors. Investors like you and me. They are put into people's pension funds, 401Ks, RRSPs, wrapped into various types of funds. And bingo.... it is now you and I who are carrying the risk. Magic.