True, but I don't continue to add to it. Yes, I know what was out there is out there for good. And I suppose it could be considered irony in the statement about meeting my wife, however that was several years ago and does not negate my point that aside from that, my life hasn't benefited from spending hours a day on FB.

Seriously? What's the big deal? If you don't like it, don't use Facebook. I don't. I quit several months ago and deleted my account. Same with Twitter after I learned they were giving their entire archive to the Library of Congress.

With FB, I am convinced it's really nothing more than a giant waste of time with little or no real benefit. Yes, I will grant that I met my wonderful wife courtesy of Facebook, but beyond that, I cannot see how my life is any better due to the time I used to spend there.

Not to mention Facebook basically means someone else is hugely profiting from the comings and goings of my daily life. And, quite frankly, I don't trust Mark Zuckerberg with my life any further than I could throw a giant boulder.

No one is forcing you to use Facebook. I don't miss it a bit.

Good points, Doctor. However, I do take issue with your opening comment. Yes, your training resulted in the work being done, but I AM the one paying the bill, and it is MY BODY. Yes, you are doing the work, but only because I am paying you for that service.

It's no different than if I take my car to the shop, list some complaints, and they fix it. I fully expect to be told everything they did, and why, and their diagnosis, so I can keep a record of it. Why? Several reasons. First and foremost, I'm paying the bill and it's my car. And, with that information in hand, I can have the confidence (or lack thereof) that the problem was fixed and why. And I have that information in case I want to do further work myself, or take it to another garage, or have that information with me if I'm traveling and it needs work to show a mechanic somewhere else. Each of these examples is directly applicable to medical records for the same reasons. If I think my doctor screwed up, I can take my records and show them to another doctor. Or if I'm traveling and something bad happens, I can have those records to show a doctor wherever I'm at. Etc. etc. etc.

Granted, I rarely visit the doctor, but I would appreciate having copies of my records. I recently applied for life insurance which included a medical exam/blood work/etc. I was very pleased that my insurance agent gave me sealed copies of those records. It let me see where my various blood levels were at, and I discovered a couple that were a little high. Admittedly, my wife is a nurse so she was able to give me more information on some of the items, but on a few, she just googled for an answer much like I would have. Seems kinda obvious to me. They're MY records. I should have copies, for no extra cost. Heck, there are probably errors in there too that, if I could see my records, I could correct, much like a credit report.

I'm generally not a fan of government intrusion into my life, but I would like to see it mandated that patients have a right to copies of any/all of their medical/dental/vision/etc. records, at no cost.

Wow. Obviously you didn't RTFA. My wife is a nurse on the ventilator unit at a local rehabilitation hospital, and shares this sentiment. So many of their patients are comatose, totally unresponsive, but their families insist on keeping them alive at any cost. They've had patients there for 10 years or more on a vent, comatose, zero chance of ever coming out of it, and only kept alive by the machines. What sort of existence is that? My wife and I have had "that talk" and neither of us want to be kept alive by machines. Sure, if something bad happens and there is a good chance of full or nearly full recovery, go for it. But kept alive by a feeding tube and mechanical breathing? Hell no. I'd much rather spend that extra time with my Creator in Heaven.

"Computer - tea, Earl gray, hot."

A President with balls would never have asked for it back. He would have said "You have 6 hours to return the drone intact. If you don't, it will turn into a smoldering crater."

They'll never close the Straits of Hormuz because it'd piss off not just the US but the entire world.

As others have suggested, Canon products are great. For what I perceive to be your situation, a Canon pocket camera will be your best bet. You do actually get good images from them, and I say that with certainty as I have two pocket Canons, one DSLR and a couple dozen DSLR's at work, all Canon. I resisted the urge to get a pocket camera until a couple years ago, but since I did, there's truly no going back. Why? Because you always have it with you. A DSLR you will not carry with you very often, plain and simple. A pocket camera that does a good job and is always with you - you can't go wrong. Because you have it with you. I cannot stress that point enough. I suggest a Canon with GPS. The location features are nice - knowing where your photos were taken.

Swype, and, dare I say it, Flash. I have an iPhone 4 and like it, but my wife just got a Droid Bionic. It's noticeably faster than the iPhone 4 (but probably on par with a 4S). But she got it for two reasons - swype and Flash, so she can play some of the Facebook games she enjoys. Will Flash die? Maybe, hopefully, and then that will be a moot point. But even as an Apple enthusiast, I must say, swype is very, very nice. Siri seems cool, and I'm sure it is for some people, but voice-to-text, eh. I'm in the office, and I don't want others to hear what I'm texting.

Seems easy to me. You probably have the passwords stored in a file somewhere, right? Once a month when you change them, print it out and put it in your safe deposit box that only you and one other trusted individual (spouse, child, lawyer) have access to.

Just like cheating with electronic voting machines is orders of magnitude more difficult than paper ballots?

Finally - a computer that can fully handle Windows 8!

Easy - just do it outside on a real windy day. The wind will carry all the nasty junk away.

Granted, the whole concept of using an iPhone in the bath is silly, IMHO, I could see very legitimate real-world use for this in the disabled community.

My wife is a nurse on the ventilator unit at a local rehab hospital, and she tells me often of the setups people have there to use a laptop computer with head-mounted stylus units and such that don't work very well for some patients. But I could see a solution like this working wonderfully for quadriplegic or otherwise disabled people to use an iPhone or more likely an iPad.

Seeing as how it cost almost $7,900 just to put gas in my Prius this morning, I'd come out ahead by not having to drive to work every day.