"Google Talk [...] while still only has the same limitations that BBM does: it's effectively insecure and only works with other people who subscribe to it"

GTalk is XMPP which is both secure (OTR for end to end encryption and TLS for client/server communication) and open to the world (server2server/federation has been activated many years ago).

Users of my mailservers have the ability to turn on/off spam filtering. It's on by default, all we'll have to do is turn it off by default and tell the customers how to turn it on again. Problem solved.

Coming from the G1 and Desire Z, new HTC phones lack a lot of features:
-no replacable battery
-no trackpad
-no SD
-no keyboard
all these features are missing on any "modern" phone, the trend is to make all buttons disappear at the cost of screen real-estate. So when it was time to get a new phone I went for the one with the biggest screen and most of the disappearing features, I went for Samsung.

So here is a good reason not to use CDMA nor AT&T.

Wouldn't it be simpler to get a smartphone and put the dumbphone's SIM in it? Same price, one device.

"I'd not just admit it, I'd proudly proclaim that they are worthless trash and a complete waste of time that just leaves you dumber for watching them"

[snip]

For someone that is makeing the above claim, you sure do have an in-depth knowledge about these programs you might only get buy actually watching/following them.

All these drives of all manufacturers are equally crappy, it is just that some a slow/cheap and others are fast/expensive. WD is no exception, the black editions and green editions both die within the same timespan (atleast that is my experience). Choosing between them depends on whether you need lots of storage cheap or fast storage. At home my SAN is populated with a mix of (mostly) green and black and both fail at equal rates. At work its the other way, mostly enterprise and some green for slow mass storage backup volumes and still every 2/3 months someone has to make a trip to the datacentre to replace a disk (more often the enterprise class since there are a lot more of them).

Hear, hear. I get the same results in my 9-11 km/l rated 2004 4x4. But most of the time I get a 7-8 km/l. That is the same relative difference the article measured:
"We were impressed when Ford announced that the 2013 Fusion hybrid earned an EPA rating of 47 mpg for both city and highway driving. Here was a generously sized and relatively conventional-looking sedan rivaling the efficiency of the Toyota Prius.

Then we racked up a mere 32 mpg in our road test"

This problem has always existed, but with better mileage, the relative error results in more easy to spot absolute differences.

The European tests are also flawed, they might be more realistic but the "mileage" is still not applicable to real world situations. The tests are highly optimized, there is almost no way to get these results as an ordinary driver.

There as a consumer program on TV a couple of weeks ago, people were complaining they were only getting 16km/l instead of the advertised 25 km/l for a certain car. This was after driving instructions/coaching from the importer. The conclusion was something like:
Every car is tested in the same way, highly optimized. You will not get these results in real life, but you can use the results to compare cars, a 25 km/l car will be more efficient than a 20 km/l car of the same fuel type for the same driver.

BTW I am able to almost reach the manufactures mileage in my car, but it means I have to drive really slow, stay of the throttle (0-100 km/h in 20s), look ahead/anticipate to avoid breaking/acceleration, drive under the max speed limit, don't drive in the city, don't drive during rush hours, make sure the car is empty (not carrying unnecessary weight). But realistically this will almost never happens.

"The odd branches are normally unstable and short term."

In the pre 2.6 era. This scheme hasn't been used for near a decade. Not in 2.6 and certainly not in 3.x. 3.2 and 3.4 are long term supported, but there is no difference for 3.3/3.5-3.8 versions.

"A router requires a minimum of two NICS to function as a router."

No it doesn't. There are things like aliases and vlans that make routing possible with 1 nic.

Apparently I didn't read that far into you post.

Read further:
"to add liquid ingredients (cream, sweetener, and lemon juice) from a foil package to another that contains black coffee or tea."
The lemon part is for the tea. Just like you don't add cream to tea, lemon to coffee makes no sense.

Before my coffee addiction I used to add lemon to tea, it appears to be something eastern european.

You like it black? Like your men?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tYLb3teB14

Now the only problem would be to fix that dangerous vacuum in space:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ukAH6Ny80

"But on the other side of that coin, that game I bought on Steam cost me anywhere from $5 to $30 depending on how long I'm willing to wait for a Steam sale. I don't feel like I have to recoup my money by reselling my games second hand because they cost me so little in the first place. I paid $5 for Fallout: New Vegas, and I am not feeling the pain about not being able to resell it to someone else."

But the same is true for console games, just wait sometime for the prices to drop, waited for Fallout 3 GotY edition and New Vegas Ultimate to drop a little so I could have the game including all "DLC" for a price less than buying the DLC by itself.