So far the JXD S7300 is cheaper and has been getting better reviews, aside from a few hardware faults with the controls and poor soldering jobs.
http://www.jxd.hk/products.asp?id=627&selectclassid=009006

Cheaper too. And these chinese tabs tend to get lots of good community support.

I would like to point out that there is no "official" rule on the apostrophe and can' ac'tually be use'd when'ever.
What they taught you in school was generally accepted, but in no way set out in stone.
Example: Grocer's, Grocers' and Grocer' are all grammatically correct.

In the past month, many if my regular sites have been flagged by Google for malware and when resolved it was all down to malicious software being served by their ad provider.

For the first time in years I visited Youtube on a freshly installed system without any addons installed, and it blew my mind how many ads there were. The main page had about 3 ads including a huge video ad in the middle. This was on a netbook and so the time it took for the ad to load was not appreciated. I loaded a music video and there was a video ad, a popup on the video, and that annoying frame around official music videos that show the next crappy pop star (in this case it was Nicki Minaj, and that was really unappreciated).

Some sites that I do visit ask me to turn it off and they so far have only served me very simple image ads or text ads which I don't really mind. It's when an ad starts playing animation and/or audio that I block them and sometimes just block the site itself completely.

You don't need to be intrusive to sell your product. It just annoys the end user. I don't remember a single flashy ads name, so that obviously does not work (in my case).

DuckTits (oooh ooooh)

"they showed learning behavior when confronted with electric shock." You shock anyone's little nub's of flesh enough and they tell you anything you want to hear.

I'm going to assume Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is a much better source than you.

Install "dsploit" and mess around with your friends and family. It allows for changing all the image in someones browser with a specified image, and you can do the same with text. Made my friend think she was being haunted by changing her name on Facebook to "you're next" and all her images to scary faces that say things a virus wouldn't know.

And she had no idea because I was on my tablet.
There is also password sniffing and such but I'm not interested in that.

I ordered a MicroSD card and a mini Wireless N adapter from TigerDirect and the box was huge and full of several feet of brown paper packaging it's ridiculous. Like, 10 feet of paper. Same thing when I ordered speakers from Amazon. The warehouse is only a couple of towns away and the box was 3-4 times bigger than the item and full of paper.

On the opposite side of it I received an HDD from eBay which only had one layer of bubble wrap and an envelope. Worked fine, but the contrast was amusing.

*attack=attach.
Ugh. Though I gave myself a funny image of a UPS man mauling a shock sticker.

Exactly this, So much simpler and easier since you need to get the sender to apply it, and they are more likely to attack the shock stickers apposed to hacking together a wireless g-sensor. Unnecessarily high-tech solution to a low-tech problem.

Is it really just the state of the American system that is so corrupt that a company can get away with this, or is this prevalent elsewhere? Obviously /. features predominantly American news so I can't tell if my views are skewed or not.

If it does seem to be mostly American; Bloody hell you guys need to step up your game. I've never heard of a Canadian company do this. We have Bell, Rogers, Virgin, Telus and WiND and I could never imagine any one of those company doing this. They do some pretty scummy stuff to pull in money, like crazy overage charges, but even the guys with the most push like Bell don't dick around with people that much. These guys are fighting each other over customers constantly. Is there not much choice in America for service providers?

I can't see this being any type of legal. What agreement could possibly allow this and still be upheld in court?
The entire thing is just... my mind...*poof*

As a previous poster had pointed, astronauts are not far enough out of orbit for the electronics to be in danger of cosmic rays as they are still within the protection of the Earths atmosphere.

Doesn't matter. Working in retail I learned that individual customers are very much unimportant. Just because you come in every week and buy a couple things doesn't make you a valued customer and your business will not be missed. The majority of people will not care and will continue doing what they have been doing for years. Don't kid yourself in thinking your storming off will teach anyone a lesson. The clerk does not care (and they never do), the store does not miss your purchase, and the next customer moves ahead in line that much faster. Most often the clerk will joke about you with their colleagues about that guy who couldn't afford the fee and he got mad and left. Made us put his items away too. What a prick.

Carry cash or use a debit card. Might as well make it easier for yourself than anyone else.

It must be all the frozen Ewoks: http://youtu.be/5r_TlPwZOvU

Don't need to RTFA but at least RTFS properly.