Such a tragedy that your life would be cut so short!

Funnier still that it's modded +5 insightful.

He's the bofh, he does not need your password. Your home directory is gone. The backups? Lets see, intermittent environmental interrupt problem... I can work with this.

Rogers in Canada throttles VPN connections. Lots of pissed off business types, no huge problems for Rogers yet.

It's wireless!

I envy you. Did you manage to forget geocities too?

From the article (I know, bad form) both this headline and the article headline are wrong. Myspace is the 'most hated' being one point below Facebook. Rather interesting how close the two are, though.

Google may end up picking up on this one, with Plus looking like it's gaining momentum.

Or not. Should be interesting to watch, anyway.

Thank you, this comment made my night. :D

I used to work in the hospitality industry as well - the company installed, maintained and supported guest internet access for hotels and transit companies (we had several bus and rail contracts). For the locations with a lot of government or corporate guests, standing orders from the hotel management was to do whatever was necessary to get these guests online. Lockheed-Martin employees were one of our biggest sources of calls, their vpn would not let them reach the captive portals and they had to be passed through manually. Many government employees and contractors had exactly the same problem. Anyone else would be told to contact their IT department to sort that mess out.

Don't underestimate what hotels will do to accomidate what may be one of their largest customer groups. When a company like Lockheed-Martin says fix this or our employees will no longer be staying at your hotel, you fix their complaint, you don't tell them 'but we locked down that functionality' and lose 80+% of your business.

I have one, it's great. Unfortunately, it's a little bit dated when put up against more recent android phones. But, personally I am willing to deal with that to have a fully featured linux tablet in my pocket. Your needs may be different than mine.

I've read (and seen) problems others have had with them, and it's nothing different from the problems faced by any other mobile device. Aside from the OEM battery life, which is just terrible.

Keep an eye on Nokia, they're rolling out the next Maemo/Meego based phone - the N9 - and are continuing development of the platform, even if it's a bit half-hearted. There is still hope for an upgrade.

When I worked at a call center in the states, during high volume times I would handle multiple calls at once as well. It isn't impossible to do well, just very difficult - only a select few of our techs could manage it without pissing off customers.

Not all of us use computers (or smartphones) that are impossible to bring into the backyard.

It facilitates the drinking, as you don't need to watch the temperatures so closely.

Or, in other words, look to VODO's example.

I am awed by this analogy.

My kingdom for some mod points!