In truth, Firefox is a great browser, but the operating system it includes around it is crap.

Too young to remember emacs perhaps? Kids these days. Now get off my lawn.

In this day and age, who is smart enough to pick up a lost phone in a bar and then try to sell it superstitiously and is still to dumb to tell a real cop from a rent-a-cop?

Only someone *dumb enough* to pick up a lost phone and try to sell it, wouldn't be able to tell the difference....

Maybe the ipad makes more sense if you don't have a laptop or have some reason to not carry one around...

Actually my iPad *is* my reason for not carrying my laptop around.

Do show us the youtubez of that. I'm Ford administration vintage and I never saw this until Rossy started doing it.

Silly. Everybody knows YouTube wasn't invented back then.

Despite my efforts, my hole had no value. In fact, it had negitave value, as the city came in one day to fill it

Au contraire!
It sounds like you digging a hole like that created more work for the city who had to fill it in.
So if everybody did that, lots of jobs would have to be created to fill them in.

William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.

Gee thanks. Now I have coffee dripping out of my nose and a yucky monitor.
Hysterical sig.

"I'm somewhat of an authority on GSM security,

That may very well be, but when I read that I see Anchorman Ron Burgundy saying: "I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal."...

but I see a lot of Star Trek in that car. Especially TNG style.

Indeed it does. Amusingly, the logo on the front fender looks kind of like the Klingon logo...