You (or somebody who manages your network) has to actively choose to use OpenDNS and they advertise those redirects as a feature. That'd be like signing up for a service that automatically withdraws $10/mo from your bank account and then suing them for accessing your bank account.

A dock to charge the mouse... the keyboard runs off a pair of AA's. Being that it's on my desk, I wouldn't even mind a wired keyboard... but the wireless mouse is very nice to have. I always hated fighting w/the mouse cable.

I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.... even fewer cables :)

The Dell monitor I use has 4 USB ports on it.... two easily accessible and two buried by the power and VGA/DVI connectors. I've found that to be ideal as I assume they're powered from the monitor. The two on the side are useful for connecting thumb drives, phone chargers, etc while the two on the back are useful for the camera on top of the monitor and the bluetooth dongle (I've used one in the past for USB powered speakers).

For all their flaws, Sprint tends to be one of the more open carriers. Also, while they don't seem to make as much noise, if you're interested in openess don't overlook Palm. While their entire OS isn't Open Source, it is still based on Linux so those parts are open source. Of course, Android is the same way... the core OS may be open source, but the Google apps, MFG additions, and carrier additions typically aren't. Also, Palm doesn't make you hack your phone to get root access. Want root access, put it in developer mode by entering one well known code. Wanna update but worried you might loose your root access? Well stop worrying... that happens all the time in Android and iOS worlds, but not on webOS :).

You can also jailbreak an iPhone, yet we* complain constantly about how locked down the iPhone is.

*The collective /. we

Don't even have to do that... just paste it instead of click on it. Or click on it and then go up to the address bar and hit enter.

Personally, I make extensive use of Friend Lists. I have a list for friends from High School (10+ yrs ago), a list for people from my church... one for my family (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc)... on for my wife's family... one for immediate family.... one for close friends and people I have some basic trust in... and one for people I don't know at all but added to gain some advantage in a FB game. My default postings are only visible to immediate family and close friends only. This includes anything from Gowalla and Foursquare. When I'm posting something, I have to make a conscious decision about if I want to share that information with more than just that small group. It has resulted in instances where I posted something to the small group and had to delete it and repost so I could expand the visibility, but it has never resulted in my accidentally posting something that I'd rather not have seen by high school acquaintances I haven't seen in more than 10 years or the more questionable members of my extended family.

Of course very few people actually go through that much trouble. Most think they're doing pretty good if they set their default post privacy to "friends only"... which is better than "Everybody", for sure, but still assumes you can trust everybody on your friend list.

I tried convincing my wife that the human race survived before the invention of air conditioning, but that argument didn't go very far. I'd also like to point out that life worked "perfectly fine" before /., yet here we both are.

Do you really believe that? I'm sure your apartment complex/trailer park/whatever really pays as much as you would as an individual ($70/mo, in this case), but I'm sure they also don't pay a tiny, tiny fraction. And, of course, whatever they do pay is marked up a bit and then passed on to you inside your rent. Just like the trash removal and water/sewer (if they're provided for "free"). The only real difference is that if you get sick of the cable company, you really can't even cancel it! Even if you refuse to hook up your TV, you're still paying them every month.

Most complexes do this to discourage people from installing satellite dishes (note: they can't actually mandate that you not install a dish). Why would you pay for a dish when you already pay for cable and can't stop!

HP already won. The deal is closed. The ink is on the paper. Anybody looking to buy Palm now would have to buy it from HP.

For the most part I like your list... but I'd swap out Android's IM support and keep webOS's client (with a couple more providers supported).

Also, the rumor is that the PDK will enable very easy porting of iPhone apps to webOS, so I'd imagine that will help bolster their app catalog.

I recently switched from the Palm Pre to the HTC Evo. The only things I really like about the Evo better are: the hardware (though I miss my real keyboard) and the number of apps. Android itself just isn't all its cracked up to be IMHO.

I ran like this quite some time. Then one day out of nowhere, it just stopped working. Comcast started encrypting the channels I had been receiving for months in clear QAM. No the only stations I can get w/out those external boxes are ones I could get if I put up an antenna and stopped paying Comcast. Guess what I'm doing after I move.

Or even better, sit in the lobby of a competing dealership and make it look like corporate espionage :).

The Pre, using MyTether on Sprint (a $15 "donation") and presumably the Mobile Hotspot app on Verizon (additional monthly fee applies) create a Wifi Access point and then shares the EVDO connection with any device that connects to it. No adhoc support required.