Yeah - come to think of it there is one radio station I stream - it's KBCS out of the Seattle area. No commercials at all.

Yeah that's pretty much what killed radio. The incessant repetition is awful to the point I'd rather drive in silence a lot of the times.

Imagine my surprise when I got the new cell phone it was in July that I got emergency text notifications of weather events. It was bizarre - heard this loud BONG BONG BONG on the car bluetooth and then saw the message on the phone.

I have a well configured Pandora One account. I like the model - tell it artists you do like, and it suggests based on that.

I walked away from dead tree books years ago. Don't get me wrong - I still own quite a few from the period prior or from authors who in their stupidity don't make e-book versions of their books available for sale.

I like the fact that I can have several hundred linear feet worth of books in the palm of my hand.

You think so? I do too. My new music discovery has been purely net based for several years now. And it isn't me streaming my local ad laden FM station on the web.

I take the MBTA Commuter from Providence to Boston daily. It runs along the same segment on which the Acela runs. It's a pretty smooth ride, that is if the MBTA train doesn't break down.

Best one I ever saw though was one morning the commuter was running VERY slowly. You could see debris streamed down one side fo the track. Then as we got further in we saw what hit what. An Acela regional hit an SUV full of kids, killed all of the kids and the SUV was just a twisted lump of metal. In the case of car versus train, train wins hands down.

Now that's really interesting given how Ma Bell once charged you for the privilege of using DTMF aka Touch Tone. That was until you figured out that it was enabled by default on the lines and then started using it without telling Ma Bell. But she got smart - the electronic switches could TELL you who was using what. That's when the game was up.

If you understood the interplay between the flat out UGO rights and group membership maybe, just maybe you wouldn't take the opportunity you did to bash Unix/Linux file permissions.

Or just to shut them down. I mean I'm fairly certain we in the U.S. have our own cyberwarfare units in the U.S. - that might also be the answer to who leaked the ISO of Red Star 3.0

If you're really good you watch the httpd.log files and see where it didn't have rights to get to the directory. Then set the rights accordingly.

Then it's good enough to regulate the ISP's. Look at what at&t was before the government broke it up in the 1980's. It was a regulated monopoly. But today we have some competition in the telecom - regulation could only enhance it by removing ownership of the poles.

Completely unbundle your cable subscription. Tell them to shove their box up their ass.

Since Sony has lost the audio player market to cheap cell phones. I should know, I buy nothing but sub $100 cell phones and the capabilities just keep going up and up. The only inviting thing about the Sony unit is the 128GB of internal storage - but cell phones go up to what, 10GB of internal now and can take 64GB SD cards for far less than $1,200.

Old TV's were parts harvesting extravaganzas for me. Played with a lot of high voltage stuff when I was a kid - knew how to protect myself but it gave my mom fits.