I think you just hit the nail on the head! Either...

1) Someone in LulzSec stole this dude's wallet
2) Someone in LulzSec fabricated the whole story (most likely, IMO)
3) The thief stole the BC and "donated" it to LulzSec in a bizarro Robin Hood-esque gesture
4) The pastebin is fake or something

Lawyer replaced by shell script

Err, data loss is *more* likely on my hard disk.

Cloud service reliability will only get better. A total loss of data is still *much* less likely with data stored on my hard drive. Granted, regular backups would help a lot, but I'm too lazy.

I think we'd all agree that a crappy app atop a good OS can lead to a crappy experience. Ergo, a crappy experience does not imply a crappy OS.

Where's the mobile app?

Here ya go: http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/12/13/the-lessons-of-gawkers-security-mess/

That's quite a hack, depriving users of their right to vote...

Yup, that's the fall-back plan. Verizon should announce their LTE (dual-core?) phones then, and my g/f has been bugging me to join her on Big Red for a while. Verizon is evil, but T-Mo is getting lame...

I've been waiting for this phone to renew my T-Mo contract, but the lack of "4G" network capability means I'll probably end up switching to Verizon. Way to fail, Goog-Sung!

This text fulfills Slashdot's silly post length requirement.

To summarize: Alarmist e-zine for PHB's confirms their suspicions that Facebook and YouTube are, in fact, the devil. Why is this on Slashd...oh, it's samzenpus. Never mind...

Here ya go. I used this to power my G1 while I was down in the Grand Canyon this summer.
http://www.scosche.com/products/productID/1905

There was no T-Mo signal, but was using the GPS.