What if your tech skills are troubleshooting and adopting new technologies rapidly? What if your tech skills really have nothing to do with a particular piece of software? This former CIO wouldn't understand that by being a CIO he knows less than the people he had working for him. Which to me makes his opinion on how long someone's skills are "valid" invalid.

A question in earnest then. WHY ARE WE(the taxpayers in the US) PAYING FOR THIS? I, as a hard working tax paying citizen of the United States of America do not want my government to give $600 mil to some fucking car company. I do not want my government bailing out banks because they're too stupid to handle other people's money. I want my government to shoot people on my behalf and keep our country safe. I want my government to not give incentives to corporations for selling my job to India. Bottom line, I want the government to take care of a larger percentage of it's citizens. Because the richest 2% it's covering now isn't quite cutting it.

Hasn't anyone learned from Aaron Barr? Don't fuck with people on the net you don't know. They can/will get you. That's obviously besides the legal implications of these "researchers". First, sniffing internet traffic is illegal...even google got in trouble for doing that "accidentally". Second, there is absolutely no way to correlate the data without stealing files or potentially protected IP from the "target" computer. So these "researchers" should be prosecuted to the fullest degree of the law...just like the people they're working for usually want to do to the rest of us.

So nobody ever made a candybar phone???

Let's compare Apples and Danger's. The Danger Hiptop/Sidekick was wildly popular and "fashionable" not unlike the iPhone. It featured an in device app store, web access, email, camera, etc... By the time the Sidekick 2/3 dropped there were celebrity endorsements, and it was cool to whip out your Sidekick and show off your "bling".

Does that mean that Apple copied wholesale from Danger? Oh wait that's right there's the touchscreen that they copied from Palm. Have you realized that Apple seems to be the only company worried about people "copying" off them when they've done so much more? Polishing other people's ideas is not innovation, however it does tend to move the market forward. I mean had Apple not copied other people's ideas, we might not have gotten Android.

Real Social Networking in my mind would connect devices in a P2P space. So my laptop and/or my phone would connect to my "friends" devices and I talked to my "friends" directly. An invite would consist of a MAC or some kind of hash for joining my P2P network. In essence each person/device would be their own Social Hub. If there was an FOSS push for something like this then the walls of Facebook, Google +, Twitter and the like would crumble. Bottom line is that real social networking can't be owned by one person and if someone wants to flesh out this idea, I give it to you freely.

You're right. IE is the most secure browser, granted that you're not touching the internet. Look at any security forum, IE is typically below FF and the chromium based browsers(except Safari). It doesn't help that M$'s patching is done via Windows update which most people home users turn off. But to have a level of transparency between browser and OS always seemed a bit stupid to me. No wonder most Malware comes through IE.

Thanks for the comment. Now go do something useful with your life.

Let's see, so the people that need a strong working network get the choice of Motorola or Huawei? Can I throw my hat in the ring and offer them tin cans and miles of string? At least my solution would work.

I just uninstalled skype from my laptop and Droid X. It was fun while it lasted Skype. Sorry to see you go.

You saved me from making the same argument. So I'll add on a little bit. The Cloud...dun dun dun. Since the latest trend is storage in the cloud, think about how much of YOUR data will never EVER go away, no matter how hard you try. Facebook is just a small example of the amount of crap people are committing to be forever out of their grasp.

Anybody can buy a devkit for $1250? Anybody can also laugh at someone who paid $1250 to Apple for the privilege to develop for their platform(yes I do know a lot of that was hardware but it all still goes to Apple).

Pfffff only Apple fanboi's think they're going to live on top of the cloud.

The market as a whole can put the final nail in RIM's coffin by finally getting off of the Exchange titty. It's funny how in almost every case, we (the IT community) doesn't like things to be proprietary, but we're willing to let M$ and RIM chew through our budgets year after year. I'd rather have a fleet of iPhones(which I hate by the way) and/or Android devices that I can remotely wipe running IMAP mail and a centralized calendar solution(Darwin) than ever EVER deal with BES and Exchange again. Seems like a valid solution to the overall problem rather than just complaining about one piece of the greater cancerous whole. OT, my CEO actually wouldn't give up his BB in favor of an iPhone/Android phone because all of his CEO friends are still on BBM. Guess these guys never heard of SMS.

What's the process to report an abusive domain? I've taken as much abuse from these people as I can stand. I'd like to report verisign.com

I have to respect you for sharing your opinion. And pardon but your opinion seems to be of the weak willed / spineless ilk. I chose Android BECAUSE it's not limited to one look, one hardware set, one ANYTHING I AM GRATEFUL for choice I AM ALLOWED to treat my device as my own I AM NOT RESTRICTED to what 1 provider thinks is best for me I RESPECT the innovation of others YOUR choice was to hide behind the walled garden YOU chose to hide from the "Big Bad Malware" while WE play in the fields every day.