OH-EM-GEE! they also have my FULL NAME and my CREDIT CARD INFORMATION! What was I thinking giving a company this information! (And they only thing they ask for is birthYEAR not birthdate. I'd rather get recommendation's for twenty-something male's then the chick flick crap a 30 something female would receive.. but hey.. to each their own.)

I double checked my account profile and the only thing it has is birth year, which is used for age group movie recommendations. There is also a pull down menu for the account owner and any sub users on the account as to what movies they are allowed to rent/watch (instantly) Highest is R but there is also 'unrated family'. No where did I enter my full birth date, only year and gender. But this also looks partly removable (or you could lie), but I don't have anything to hide so I don't care and I will enjoy proper recommendations.

I've been trying a few ad blockers, such as AdBlock+ and AdThwart, both use EasyList, but neither block the most annoying ad's to me and that is 'smart text' ad's. Forums that highlight key words that when you happen to mouse over them, they pop up some video nonsense. ABP blocks such ad's in firefox and its one of the biggest things keeping me from liking chrome currently. (the other being this bug: Issue 11700)

I'm holding out for the full review, but I can't see this game going very far. They have a lot to live up to if they're going to compare it to Doom!

I had no such experience. I was presented with the new security menu, but all the options were defaulted to 'use previous settings'. I have had my privacy settings pretty fine tunned to separate work and outside work friends, so I can still post crazy weekend shenanigans without having to hear about it from co workers. And further, I enjoy that you can individually hide status and updates from select users or groups of users.

I'm for the most part satisfied and welcome the privacy additions (especially since I can now prevent my friends from sharing my data with their applications). If you want more privacy, then don't have an online profile, its as simple as that. With logic like that however you have to decide where to draw the line, the only secure computer is the one not even connected and has no physical access, but thats also not very useful.

Android Tether can be done on any rooted android device. Though you still have a cap with this "unlimited" plan, and someone at VZ may or may not notice the fact that you're tethering without a tether plan. But there are ways! I've used the phone and I think its awesome, but VZ is going to kill it with this. Anyone with a blackberry data plan care to comment, is this the same deal you guy's get or new for android?

False, my ISP runs NXDOMAIN redirection (roadrunner), as does the company I work for (different from what I use at home). DNS is not intercepted at the protocol/port level (udp 53), only if you utilize the providers DNS servers do you become subject to nxdomain redirection.

I run my own DNS server, and this is not intercepted by my ISP. All recursion done by my server for unknown and un-cached domains its discovered from the root servers down, and the root servers IP are known from the root.hints zone loaded in my bind config. Therefor when I query for fwvogahds.com I will receive a proper nxdomain in response.

The issue at had here though is root level servers not providing proper nxdomain responses, and thus the problem. All executives see is $ sign's in this though, and not the harm that its doing.

Just adding to this, as I've thought this for years!

Manual drivers also are much more well aware of their speeds, they understand, road speed, transmission speed and motor/flywheel speed or RPM. Today's auto drivers more so don't even care, there's no ambition to learn, they just want to get from A to B.

On the other topic, Both my car and my truck have throttle by wire, but they are tuned VASTLY different from each other. The car still has all the fail safes, etc, and can 'fuel' cut more safely at the rev limiter, and 'boost' cut safely if over boosted, but its incredibly responsive (sports car) you put your foot down, and it opens the throttle body. My truck however, I could floor it on the high way and not always get WOT in return. Sadly in the truck the programmers thought it better to not provide responsiveness but instead rate fuel economy and emissions over my inputs. I just don't understand why I would need fuel economy when I'm attempting to go WOT, I fully understand what that means in terms of fuel consumption. Then again, I'm a driver, and not a sheep.

Google is just providing me RSS aggregation via iGoogle. Mostly NPR, Slashdot, Routers, Wired, Fark, and my google finance and gmail.

Don't need to search when its all pretty much on my home screen/page. I keep it open all day and just check back as I click around on the updated links. Only if I want to look up something further do I actually 'search'.

huh?... the emulator is included with the SDK, always has been.

I agree with this, I had a copy of Spore that wasn't exactly legal (lot of good their DRM did, I know), but the game didn't come anywhere near the hype and I played it less than a day total. I don't feel any bit evil for my actions, I avoid a crap game.
Two developer's come to mind that has always gotten my money, ID software, and Blizzard. I think I have a legal copy of every game ever produced by both groups. IMHO, developers need to stop blaming pirates and start producing better games.

Unfriendly is right, I've had some peoples profiles that would crash my firefox hard every time. Full page transparency's also doesn't agree with the linux version of firefox. Now I do block everything under the sun on facebook, but at least they enforce the page style and I don't have to look at glitter gif's. Now if there were only a way to eliminate peoples application's within their stream from poping up on my friends stream.

Cable and Sat have gotten out of control, I don't watch enough tv to necessitate 1000+ channels while paying $50-$75/mo for it.
I canceled my cable a few months ago and have been souly utilizing Netflix for my viewing needs via my xbox360. If hulu starts offering direct streaming services and in HD, via xbox, ps3 and/or web for all of its television content like netflix does for movies I would be willing to pay $5-$10-$15/mo for it and wouldn't mind some ad support. Unchanged though, I wouldn't consider paying for it.

This is actually incredibly easy on the android platform, apps made this easier in 1.0, widgets made this accessible from the home screens in 1.5, and 1.6 added native support with a control bar.