No business wants to compete in a fair market. Who do you think starts all those "grass roots" (note quotes) movements to influence lawmakers? Recent example: I love the railroads and keep up with the news from the world of railroading, but the American Association of Railroads recently put links on Facebook and the like to the "stop larger trucks" website. They claim they're worried about safety (and given the number of recent train/truck collisions, they may be on to something), but let's face it: The railroads would love to do anything they can to make the trucking industry less profitable. And I'm sure the trucking industry does the same thing to the railroads whenever they can. This is, unfortunately, how the game is played, and it's been this way for a long time. Do you know who bought up many the streetcar companies in the 1930s-1950s so they could shut down the rail system and sell more buses? General Motors. In short, I'm not sure why Apple gets singled out for this hate - every company does this kind of thing. Hate 'em all, or hate none of them.

We were looking at the D7000 last October, originally planning to buy one in early January. We went into the camera store, and they told us they were out of stock due to the flooding (but, a few weeks after Christmas, they filed bankruptcy, so I suspect there was more to the story than flooding). Fearing there would be a shortage and we wouldn't be able to get one when we were planning, we went online and bought the camera immediately.

Looks like it's a good thing we bought when we did. Of course that probably means we contributed to the price jump...

FWIW, there are other apps that do this. I have two of them on my 3GS - Google's and another one. Both were free. I haven't played with them much, though, so I can't say how well they work.

On a related note, I wonder if Slashdot paid for the rights to use the term "Super Bowl" - the NFL defends that term pretty vigorously. This is why places that have, for example, televisions on sale this week have signs up that say, "Get your new TV for the big game!" Grocery stores refer to food for the "big game" party. And so on.

The other day, I even heard a DJ on Sirius (satellite radio) saying he wasn't sure what he could say in regards to the game. The odd part is that Sirius will be carrying the game, so even within companies that ARE actually affiliated with the NFL, it's not clear.

The problem with this line of logic is that those events (Olympics, prince wedding, world cup) all have very good security too - check '72 Munich Olympics to see why. So trying to say the Super Bowl isn't a high-value target because there are others, and so doesn't deserve good security, doesn't make sense.

I did this, too. I rolled my own. About half of our guests responded this way. It worked extremely well, too. I had controls in it to lock them out if they changed the answer more than a few times, with a friendly message to let us know directly what they planned to do, and it logged every IP address that tried to hit it.

My brother suggested I go into business doing it, but frankly I didn't want to deal with it - most of the people are fine, but one bridezilla would really ruin it. And you have to keep in mind you're messing with people's WEDDING so it HAS to be right, or you'll be sued into oblivion.

I want the same. My idea is to at least have a camera on the back of the rearview mirror, facing out the windshield, just recording everything I see like a DVR. Then, I'd hit a button when I see something stupid to have it save the last 30 seconds or so of video. In the DC area, I would have new videos for a website demonstrating aggressive and/or stupid behavior DAILY. And it'd be great evidence if I'm involved in an accident, since, the last time, the other driver lied about what he was doing and it all got blamed on me.

Why do I need insurance if I'm not actually driving the car? I don't need insurance as a passenger on an airplane or ride the subway. In fact I don't even need insurance to be a passenger in a car, which is exactly what I'd be in a driverless car.

Some areas (including mine) have gone to single-stream recycling. Throw everything that is recyclable in one bin, and the rest goes in the trash. Very easy. We usually have as much in recyclables every week as we do in the trash.

I have Nikon equipment only because the day I went into the camera shop to buy my first SLR (a Canon, mind you), the guy at the shop showed me that the competing Nikon SLR had a metal mount ring, while the Canon had a plastic ring. Seriously...it was that close. So, I really don't have a Nikon>Canon mentality...it's just what I happened to buy first. And like I said, my wife's point-and-shoot Canons have been pretty decent cameras.