Is it so hard to put the hippie's entire name in the title of the article instead of abbreviating it?

Skype is working just fine. I just call tested in on my iPhone 4 moments ago and the polite British test call lady sounded as clear as ever. I think she's British. Never really stopped to play her accent. This is another Orson Welles caliber example of Internet reporting. Bravo.

So that one episode in Voyager where Seven of Nine makes a "Fourier Analysis" wasn't total bullshit?

I received this information from an alien. It was in the Paramus Holiday Inn, I was having a drink at the bar, alone, and this alien approached me. He started talking to me. He bought me a drink, and then I think he must have used some kind of a ray or a mind control device because he forced me to follow him to his room and that's where he told me about the end of the world.

Where's the option for Cowboy Neal's ZPM?

The PSN+ month free offer is worst than a them offering customers a gift card. It comes as absolutely no loss to Sony offering this because it's just a way to ensure and wrap more people into their revenue stream. I liken the move to something more of a casino comp in that they'll lure you in with a shitty buffet so you can piss away more of your money on some false hope.
I'll pass on their token gesture, scripted apology, and boneheaded-ness of connecting with the customer.

Telecommunications in the United States is flawed to the point where we are at an impasse where AT&T is getting back to where it was 30 years ago.

They've tied up GSM to suit their own needs by locking down their phones to prevent customer retention to a competing network and signing two year contracts to further prevent the retention and legitimize it by selling atrociously overpriced phones for something that should be manageable without the contract (or bribe).

Carriers pick the phones they want on their network and dictate to hardware manufacturers the what features they want.
In general, carriers have been this middle man that dictates EVERYTHING... and I think that it really can't sustain itself on an ethical or economic level. It's been ignored for way too long. Their customer service is lousy and their corporate stores run like a used car lot.

FCC and FTC needs to put their foot down and counter-bullshit them with an opportunity to rewrite or enforce the books a bit more. Contracts and SIM locks need to go away at the very minimum if the deal goes through. What in the flying fuck do these government bodies even represent if they don't kick AT&T's ass to the floor?

I'm kind of leaning on the idea that the "anonymous reader" that submitted the article might be the author of the software.

The software barely works. You need to lock yourself in a pitch black room for the thing to even remotely register the geometry correctly. Anywhere with any hint of light other than from your iOS device screen totally throws it off. Put your money into a more worthwhile 99 cent investment/scientific achievement... Fat Booth.

by clicking the "like" button under "CODE RED: TERRORISTS STRIKE".

I'm not going to defend the guy on account there are a lot of people out there that are mentally one pebble short of a total meltdown/cataclysm. Some philosophers will argue that all people are inherently evil. If that were the case, people in power like politicians would start locking up as many people as possible because the average citizen be a threat to him or her.

A lot of people are dissatisfied with their government and outside of voting, the elected official (whether they voted for them or not) sits cozy in their seats until the next term.

I don't expect the common man or woman to really know or respect common discourse if they feel that their representing politician is a crook or if someone is not getting represented.

A public YouTube video should be considered to some degree a forum of symbolic speech as the media, direction, and audience is so broad... it's not like pasting a threatening letter together with magazine clippings covered on dog shit saying you're going to kill him/her.

I think without a doubt, a YouTube video will make you stand out as a threat above instead of a grandma next store shaking her fist at CNN on television and wishing anarchy.

I guess you really got to watch what you say.

The driver and the officer have no reason to believe that their actions on a public highway are not being recorded by a third party. The officer is taping the situation from a dashboard traffic camera, there's passer bys, and on major highways, traffic cams. I understand that in some states, law only one consenting party has to be aware (like yourself) that the conversation is being recorded while other states require you to tell the person on the other end.

As it's read, it's kind of baseless since the inherent design of a voicemail is to record messages and not eavesdrop or record conversations. People don't have an expectation to privacy if your voice somehow crops up on a voicemail someone is leaving ten feet away on your on a sidewalk.

I could understand this being a law violation if you "accidently" leave your iPhone on voicemail or in a voice memo app in your psychologist's office to hear in on the next patient or doing something malice towards the confidential privacy of others protected by law.

The headline should have said "Horny Traffic Lights in Johannesburg Rack Up Thousands in Phone Bills as Public Outrage".

I've read his resume. He works at Nokia, not for Free Software Foundation. He's not a philosopher or a lawyer either. It's pretty easy to say that he's acting in the interest of the company that feeds his face and lines his wallet Remi went out on his own to try to pull the app and succeeded. This guy just wants to code himself a bigger cock.

The only issue I have with it is that the front facing camera displays the image digitally zoomed or closer than how your face appears using either FaceTime or the built in camera application or a number of apps that call to the camera. I'm guessing Skype built their own way of A/V and couldn't rely on Apple's implementation within their own app.

This is what FaceTime should have been and it one ups Yahoo Messengers half assed implementation because it works between with Windows, Mac, and other iOS clients (tested all three).

I used it with my Mom today to call my Dad on his Vista machine. My Mom was driving and I switched between the front and rear cameras while she was driving to participate in the conversation. It was fun and has the potential to be HUGE. It's still kind of a bummer that the people that really reap the bedford of the update are iPhone 4 users do to its connectivity.

2.21 gWh I live in a DeLorean.