I believe that's his point.

Personally, I went from getting a couple of commercial telemarketers a week to getting several charity or dead air robocalls a day after signing up for the DNC. In election season, I get tons of political robocalls a day. I was out for half a day once and came home to 57 messages on my answering machine. Every one of them was a pre-recorded political call - ~90% of them were smear campaigns.

Probably because most of what makes a Blackberry a Blackberry requires going through RIM's servers.

Same unit, different pronunciation.

We've only got a couple more years before we're supposed to have Mr. Fusion providing at least 1.21 gigawatts!

Callers do pay.. But so do receivers. The telecom industry has been double dipping for years with cell phones. And it's what they've been talking about doing on the internet.

Immediately thought of the Fujitsu F-04B. I guess since that wasn't released on this side of the Pacific, they think it doesn't count.

Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ti Kwan Leep.

Boot to the head!

Given the fact that Klaatu was threatening to destroy the Earth itself, I don't see where the ecological theme comes in. You're trying to apply modern themes to a classic movie.

You say you saw the original, but you seem to think the reason Klaatu came to Earth was the same in both.

It wasn't.

In the original, it was about preventing the violence and destruction of the human race from spreading and threatening the other planets. The "remake" was what you described. Big difference in motivation.

Verizon's left the Droid-branded phones alone, but have replaced many of Google's standard apps with Bing versions on others like the LG Revolution, Samsung Fascinate and Continuum, and Sony Xperia Play. They've also been pushing their VCAST apps more and more.

I don't know where you've been using backscatter scanners, but at Washington Dulles, they slow things down. In fact, they actually get so far behind that they randomly select people to go through the old way to prevent the lines from getting too long. With the old metal detector, people just walk through with a possible pause for a check with a hand wand or go through again because of change in their pocket or something. With backscatter, every person has to stop in the device for a few moments, then wait for the person in the back room to report to the agent at the scanner. It doesn't help that every person who goes through the nudie-scan also gets groped because every one is reported to have an "anomaly." At least, with every one that has gone through at the same time as I have since they made the backscatter mandatory earlier this year.

But it means you shouldn't have to. It's an FCC violation if a telemarketer or robodialer calls your cell phone. I've become quite familiar with form 1088 with all the complaints I've filed, but rarely does the FCC actually do anything about it (I did receive an apology letter from Dish Network after I filed a complaint about someone trying to sell me their service with a cold call to my cell, but that's one of dozens of cases).

Upon seeing the headline, my first thought was of Roujin Z.

I guess that's for when they can't get by on their own and simple monitoring won't do.

I've never had any major problems with USAirways (a few delays here and there, but only one more than 30 mins). I actually flew through CLT yesterday, but I guess I got out before the problems started.

Delta, on the other hand, is a constant problem. Left stranded in ATL twice, many delays, and terrible customer serice. Maybe if they didn't overload ATL, it wouldn't be so bad (that doesn't help the customer service issues, but it might with the others). I avoid them whenever possible.

Unfortunately, it does not allow you to install on "incompatible" devices, which the Droid is one of, from the web market. Eventually, Netflix may open the app up for more devices, but until then you have to go to alternate sources to get it. And when they open up more devices, I doubt the Droid will be one of them since it is a very old device (was end-of-lifed almost a year ago and most people who got it will be up for upgrades soon) with much tighter hardware constraints (only 256MB of RAM being the big one).