Marriage, in the legal sense, is a contract. You are presenting a slippery slope argument where there is none. Man and dog, woman and car, are not valid arguments because the dog cannot consent to a legally binding contract.

If two men and three woman want to enter into a polyamorous contract, that is the legal equivalency of marriage, why should they be prohibited from doing so? Realize that all five persons must sign the same contract accepting all of the other four, so a single holdout screws the entire thing up. Divorce would become interesting as well (you can still only sign a single contract at a time, just like today).

I had this issue back in 2002 on Sprint. My solution was to run a background ping process with 1-byte packets. This kept my connection from stalling out. The disadvantage is that your 3G modem and WiFi will never enter low-power states. So your battery life will suffer as a result.

On the same note, my web browsing greatly benefits from running all my web traffic through a SSH tunnel with compression enabled. When you are dealing with a sub-48kbit GPRS connection that ramps ping times into the 100+ second range (not a typo) and 50% packet loss with high traffic usage, it becomes necessary. (For those wondering, Afghanistan)

Thanks. I happen to live one of those places. The ONLY option here is AT&T 3.5mbps ADSL. Other possibilities are an AT&T EDGE(No VZW coverage here) connection that averages somewhere around 20kbps or satellite. No thanks (this coming from someone that makes a living repairing and fielding enterprise SATCOM systems).

I am fortunate enough that I was able to switch over to AT&T Business Class DSL(No bandwidth caps) for LESS than I was paying for the same AT&T Residential DSL. I get excellent SNRs and am often on FastPath because of that, but AT&T refuses to bump me up to 6mbps. That is even after explaining that I don't care if I actually get 6mbps. I will settle for whatever my modem trains at above 3.5mbps considering my primary motivator is a 768k upload versus a 384k upload and the price difference is less than $3/month.

"I had one. Returned it. I prefer my phones to not have sharp corners."

You seriously expected a phone called a Razr and in the commercial had it falling and sticking into a piece of metal to NOT have sharp corners?

Could someone please point out the SSD they compare to in the article?