If we had a real FCC, CDMA would have already been banned by now. This announcement or the unfettered Samsung phone announced at Google I/O is totally moot for all us Verizon Victims (and no; where I live, there is no real choice).

Personal hardware should be de-coupled from paid services, period.

There is significant chunk of pron on Tumblr - ahem, I mean, so I've heard - and now it's owned by a publicly traded company? They will definitely be the first casualty (followed by about 75% of Tumblr's employees in 13 months or so).

We must accept the fact that sometimes we forced to take risks, and sometimes those risks will go badly.

Tell that to runwaway juries making OB-GYN a no-go zone. American mothers have now become convinced (mostly be daytime TV, I'll warrant) that there should be an absolute, 100% guarantee that absolutely nothing will ever go wrong during the birth of their above-average snowflake. If not, here come the ambulance chasers taking in ~80% of the millions in lawsuit damages, doing nothing but increasing the angle of attack of the medical cost spiral.

There's something creepy when Newegg now sends me emails about 30% off rice cookers. Not sure if they have to deversify as the PC market (um, matures?), or they want to go head to head with said Amazon.

There's a book waiting to be written here.

It wouldn't surprise me if it was written by and for business schools as how to succeed in doing what SCO tried.

It it truly amazing how stupid people are when it comes to investing in, respecting, and keeping Basic Research free from market pressures and profits. How many countless breakthroughs and completely new markets have been created by some free thinkers who were allowed to do just that? But from an idiot congress critter chairman on the House 'science' committee to the scourge of humanity (anyone with an MBA), they all see basic research as a waste of time and money.

This is why we'e doomed as a species; the population and power of morons and greedheads far outweigh those folks who can still think abstractly and can see beyond the next fucking quarter.

Judge: And my grand-daughter wants a pony. I find you in violation of the TOS, your app must be pulled until you can show it complies.

MS: We've got her covered; no problem, your honor. Would you like a pony too? Maybe one that's a shoe-in for the Derby?

You've willingly purchased a walled garden topped with razor wire (Apple) and now you're complaining about the pointy bits?

Go look in your iMirror; the root cause is the reflection.

Cash is next.

Within the year, the Right (or the White House; same diff) will slowly roll out a campaign that untraceable cash transactions are the lifeblood of criminals and terrerists and thus should be phased out. Upper limits on cash transactions for anything will be first, then - just like car rentals (a literal expression of freedom) - no cash purchases of communication products or services (read: burners) will be allowed. This will also help out finding and ...neutralizing... any potential whistleblowers even at the state and local levels.

It's for you own safety, citizen.

All this will result in is more arrests.

Read as: even more money to the prison industry. Church-based law re-purposed for corporate lucre. Bonus: the poorest and ethnic minorites will be trapped by this dragnet while UMC whites slip through the holes via Dr. Drew style rehab BS.

You apparently also misunderstand the Tea Party - they oppose higher taxes and increasing spending...

...and are totally controlled and underwritten by scumbags like the Koch Brothers. This is why the IRS was investigating them; shame they don't have the courage of their convictions to say it loud and plainly.

My very personal experiment is still pending any tangible proof of success.

In a related 'duh' study: public education can be rather shit - even in low student count, rural settings.

Just pop the radiator cap and drop in a raw egg; that'll stop the leak. For awhile. But hurry up and dump this lemon on an unsuspecting buyer, quick.

...that want to use a fake ID to go out and get hammered? It's our God-given right as American citizens!

This is a zip gun not some wonder weapon. How the hell is this a defense article?

Because it's undetectible with standard scanners if you leave out the near-pointless metal (fig leaf) pellet.

That does leave the issue of the metal cartridge casing, but I'm sure these loyal patriots are working on that issue as well.