No, this is actually a brilliant move on MS/Nokia's part. If it takes off, imagine the Android royalties they'll collect from selling their own phone!

Having thought about it, I can answer my own question. People whose job is much more invasive than reading people's email. Like, if my family and neighbours knew I had some secret spy job, but they didn't know that my job was to spy on you with a hidden camera in your bedroom, then I might slap that bumper sticker on there just to give people some bait to latch onto. I suppose you could call that irony.

Who would ever get a bumper sticker like that for the sake of irony? Who would ever do that, not having read somebody's email?

As an alternate explanation, I think maybe the driver of that vehicle was just tired of people asking him, "hey, did you read that email I sent you?".

That's how you do irony. ;)

And while you're at it, smokers, drug users, fast drivers, skydivers, safari goers, daredevils, worriers, hipsters, teamsters, mobsters, masturbaters, adulterers, tax evaders, loud talkers, smooth talkers, buffalo hunters, fast eaters, people who drive more than 5 km per day, GMO eaters, doughnut eaters, coffee drinkers, people who don't brush their teeth three times per day, people who don't eat enough vegetables, and people who eat too many vegetables.

I live 4.4 km from work. I can bike there in maybe 10 minutes (I've biked there lots but never actually timed it), but then I have to either stand around for 15 minutes to cool down, or hop in the shower before I can go to the office. Realistically, my 10-minute bicycle commute takes a minimum of 30 minutes.

Then there's winter. Last night we got 30 cm of snow. Last week we got 20 cm of snow. Two weeks ago we got 20 cm of snow. I have studded tires on the bike, but you just can't keep those things rolling in more than about 5 or 6 cm of soft snow. Even on packed snow or ice, you're looking again at double commute time, plus snow pants, goggles, etc. Add to this the time it takes to clean and maintain your drivetrain on a daily basis due to slush and sand.

So yeah, biking to work is an option, and one that I have used, but to say that it's basically equivalent to driving for any commute over about 1 km is not being realistic in my experience.

Whether it's a good thing or bad is a matter of taste, but there's no denying the XBO look is straight out of 1987.

Not so, because then people would actually slow down, and the municipality's return on investment would plummet. The present lottery system allows people to speed and get away with it often enough that the occasional ticket isn't going to be any real deterrent for some--just enough, incidentally to provide low hanging fruit for minimal-effort enforcement.

Unfortunately there's no leaked date on new bosses at the Play Store yet.

I thought that date was bumped.

http://atheisme.free.fr/Religion/Sectes_liste.htm

It's not really a "singling out", but yeah, Les Témoins de Jéhovah are on there.

For mormon adherents, the staple proof is the witness of the spirit, and the personal fruits of faith. Critics and materialists contend otherwise, and have so far found nothing that would constitute proof either for or against.

There's no shortage of reading on this topic, but this article is a good start.

The icing on the cake is that the article apparently contains no video. Isn't this about a demonstration of video rendering technology? No, I didn't bother to read the article, and no, there is no cake.

You just made the GP's point, which is that 300 Mbps is plenty fast, even for tomorrow's streaming needs.

Gig fiber is interesting for media streaming, sure, but what about applications that actually need that kind of bandwidth. Off-site nightly backups, anyone? How about sharing your LUG's collection of Linux ISO's or public domain classic films with your local club without having to wait for some stupid choked file-sharing site middle man? Distributed thin client computing where the terminal servers aren't even on site? The "20 Mbps is fast enough for HDTV" argument is so tired. Can we start thinking 21st century now?

Talk about non-sequitur. Youtube takes forever because it's Youtube. It has nothing to do with the speed of your last mile, and everything to do with the fact that Google is the starving student artist of the tech community.