You are selling Google Voice a bit short. After a fuming incident with ATT and my land line, I cancelled my ATT service completely and installed this:
http://obihai.com/googlevoice.html

Using all of my previously installed phones, this device turned Google Voice into VOIP. It has been working flawlessly for a few months now to send and receive calls. I got the satisfaction of cancelling with ATT, saving a $30 per month bill, all for a 1 time fee of $50.

This was one of those "See what technology can do when not being impeded by greed" moments. It was a breath of fresh air.

When getting your legal advice from Slashdot comments, it is usually a good idea to not get your legal advice from Slashdot comments.

I create a folder on my machine that has shortcuts to all my most used apps with simple names on the shortcut. Add that folder to your path and then opening any app becomes as easy as typing:

win+R
fox
enter

It can't get any faster than that.

I can't wrap my head around this "free speech with consequences" thing. It doesn't seem to logically make sense (1+1=2 unless 1 is really big).

So by this definition of "free speech with consequences", the Chinese have free speech. They can say whatever they want (no one is duct taping their mouths shut), but they have consequences for what they say against the government (prison/arrest/whatever). It is the exact same thing as me slandering someone in the US and getting whatever consequences for it. My speech was not free. The Chinese guys speech against the government was not free.

So if we say "free speech with consequences" == "free speech" (is that logically possible?), can someone give me a case in point where someone does not have free speech.

Let me ask this as well. If our definition of free speech is "free speech but with consequences", what do you call "free speech without consequences"? Would that be "No-really-I-mean-it-this-time free speech"?

Many of us felt it at Notre Dame. I got up right away and asked the lady in the cube over if she felt it too, and she did. Many at another building on campus felt it as well. It was very clear to me, my office chair rocked back and forth slowly.

Seriously? This doesn't seem any bit crazy to you that we are at this point? Please don't help rationalize this any further.

Don't live with any women, do you?

Scotland was bought but retained some of it's own rights? So Scotland was really just licensed kind of like an MP3?

Shameless "fixed that for you".

This is my personal favorite this month. You get a free iPhone app each day. These all normally cost money.

http://appventcalendar.com/

Are you kidding me. This is quite possibly the most awesome feature of Google search.
Heck, I am so lazy now at typing into that search box. I just smash the keyboard, hit enter, and it usually guesses what I really wanted.

One big reason I don't like to use the phone especially at work... no verifiable log of what has been discussed, decided, promised.

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