Seriously?! I thought Facebook was a means of staying connected with one's own friends?

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If you've got more than a couple of hundred "friends" of Facebook then it's not Facebook that you need, it's your own wikileaks...

Actually I was thinking along the same lines... If you don't want to have the exposure to someone else killing your device, don't get a "smart" device. A plain phone that does text and voice is all most of us really need. If you want a smart-phone device that does more then, well, live with the hidden options of the mobile OS creator. The same goes for my Laptop. I don't want someone else's ideas of what they think I need or need to be protected from.

1.) Get to have our lungs protected from harmful dust AND have our women running around "bra-less" Sweet!

2.) Imagine how much more interesting Emergency Prepardness drills will be now.

Oh, if only it were legal to use one in your car...

I could drive around in a bubble of cell phone jamming delight. Just imagine the number of accidents as the idiots frantically tried to re-establish their calls. I'd call those accidents darwinism at it's finest, except the risk to the general public is simply too great.

I think it has to do with money just like everything else. My understanding is that it actually costs less to "crack" (produce) diesel out of oil than it does to make gas. Yet at the pump diesel prices are usually higher. Why? I am guessing this is because the oil companies know you will be needing less diesel so they jack the price up accordingly.

12 million I can reasonably believe. What I can't believe is Extenze claiming that they have "sold" over a billion tablets. I always wonder why the FCC doesn't investigate them for false advertising?

I've been to a Best Buy maybe a half dozen times, total. I recently bought a Brother all-in-one laser printer copier, fax et all. This was Brother's latest version of this particular model. I had thought briefly about ordering something online, but I really needed it right now and didn't want to wait. What surprised me was when I got the new machine home and setup I decided to check my usual sources online to find out how much I had over-spent and found that I actually saved money buying it at Best Buy, even with the WA state sales tax added in. What was less surprising to me was even though I hadn't really done my home work upfront, there was a Linux driver readily available, and it was a snap to install not only the printer driver but the scanner as well. I have actually come to expect this. I have an ever increasing pile of CD's still shrink-wrapped in their cases of the software that comes with the products I buy. They never seem to get opened. There is simply no need. I want the latest Linux driver available and I just download what is needed. I leave them unopened because if I get ambitious enough I might try to sell them on eBay and make enough to buy a six-pack or something. As far as my Best Buy shopping experience goes the only question I asked the salesperson was to point me where I could find a spare toner cartridge. I learned long ago that the "help" in most retail stores is almost always less informed than I am, and usually they are simply a complete waste of my time.

I have a .22 rifle from the early 1900's that still shoots the bullets out the barrel end. When compared to my "modern" .22 rifle they pretty much do the same thing.

One word. R-S-N-Y-C! Seriously, with the cost of hard disk drives so relatively cheap and virtually any old PC you may have laying around, which could then be hanging off some LAN at a trusted member's High Speed Internet connection. (Although with rsync you don't even need that really, just damn convenient)

The lack of offsite backup with this cheap and easy solution so readily available makes me think... tsk! tsk!