The GP was talking about infrastructure, not product. Infrastructure in the gas, power, and water sectors follow the same rule as network infrastructure. They exist and have to be maintained no matter how much product they deliver.

How is the carrier supposed to know that the device was stolen? What would stop you as the original owner from selling the device and then reporting it stolen? Just to piss off the new owner? Now the carrier has to setup this whole infrastructure to manage all this tracking and arbitration. With a car, there's a title that has to be moved around. You want that for cell phones???

Yes. Learn some basic economics please.

You're thinking about this backwards. That's not monopoly abuse because they don't have a monopoly in mobile operating systems. You have to be abusing a monopoly position to impact competition. They're not in the case you cited. How exactly are they using their monopoly in *search* to keep Android competition out? If you can't fill in the blanks of "Google is using their monopoly in ___ to keep the competition out of ___.", then you don't have a case.

It's called a "report a bug" menu item that automatically compiles as much data as you can think of that might help, including making the user include a description of the bug. Also, there's nothing wrong with just going over to the coworkers desk and working it out. Or schedule a day with the users when you'll be in their "area" to address issues and watch for bugs.

The reality is that most bugs *aren't* intermittent, and if you can fix all the bugs that aren't, then the intermittent ones tend to go away. The remaining stuff is tough to deal with, but certainly manageable.

I tried Bastion this morning on my arguable beefy 8-core 8 GB machine. SLOW AS SNOT. So either it's slow or I need to change some configuration setting. Maybe I'm missing something, but wasn't doing this crap in the browser supposed to make it "just work" (tm)?

Please don't click the link.

Or you could just use mosquito nets. Very cool, but it's a solution in search of a problem.

For some reason IT folks think that all us iPhone toting folks are demanding that they support my iPhone. I don't expect you to support it, and most others don't either. At a basic level, I expect my IT department to not *actively* disallow use of such technology, which is what I see all the time, departments who see no middle ground between "100% supported" and "not on my network ever". It'd be nice if you could spend a few minutes helping me to figure out how to make my email work on the thing, fixing any server related issues in the process. I don't expect you do this for every crazy piece of hardware out there, but it would nice if you could be *helpful* as I try to figure it out myself.