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Since when do you need to be actually charged with something to be on the watch list?

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Paid Pandora cost me $35 for the entire year IIRC, I get no ads (banner or otherwise), a standalone player, and a higher bitrate stream. Worth every penny.

"The polished and (reasonably) well integrated user interface is simple and lets them get on with doing what they want to do without getting in their way. "

For a long time I preferred iOS for that reason, until Apple's app store stupidity started to affect me directly. For a while if you didn't pay attention it was hard to miss, but things like the delayed approval of the G+ app and the fact that convenient features are actually starting to be removed from apps I use because of the greedy in-app purchase policy bring it all out in plain view. Android is looking more and more appealing, even if it seems to lack the ease and polish of iOS.

I'm eligible for discount hardware upgrade in less than four months. The only thing that makes me think twice about moving away from Apple now is the money I've already invested in apps and accessories. Most of the apps I can live without, and the rest can be replaced relatively inexpensively, but my car and portable speaker docks which I use daily will be missed.

A worthy sacrifice, i think.

According to the report there was a 40% increased chance of glioma among the heaviest cell phone users. According to wikipedia, glioma affects approximately 2-3 in 100,000 people. That's a 0.0025% chance. A 40% increase means cell phone users now have a 0.0035% chance, or 3-4 out of 100,000. You're still 3 times as likely to get hit by lightning and 250 times as likely to die in a fiery car crash.

You know what's fun? Logging into /. before replying to an article about natural gas fracking then being inexplicably and stealthily taken to a poll about jury duty, and not even noticing until after you submit. FML.

Make lemonade. And by life, I mean big evil natural gas companies. And by lemons I mean explosive tap water. And by lemonade I mean a natural gas extractor and storage system which can then be used to heat your house.

Remain calm, I replied to the anonymous coward, not you.

Usually my internet irony detector works pretty well, but you actually sound serious?

From what I've heard, being a "premium" Apple engineer is not so fun... You hear a lot of things like, "The outer metal band HAS to be the antenna, I don't care what the problem is, just make it work!"

I am hardly a scientist and absolutely not a doctor but if EM fields like the ones emitted from a cell phone had a drastic effect on brain function, wouldn't we notice? I can tell when i'm tired or drunk or otherwise unable to concentrate, and I don't get that feeling when my moms calls to see how I'm doing...

I'll be the first to concede that it was hell at first, but I've learned over the past year or two how to make remarkably precise selections with my stubby sausage fingers on a capacitive touchscreen. It's all a matter of personal preference, but for me it would be more of a hassle to fumble around with a stylus these days than it would be just to poke at the thing until I get it right.

It's all i want
all I want
all I want
all I want
ya ya ya ya ya

April 1 is still many months away...