I get some robocalls but not that many, and zero of them are politically affiliated. What I do get though are ethnically targeted telemarketers calling me up and speaking in hindi or urdu. Somehow someone sold the company information which includes my ethnic background and they try to cater to me by speaking my language. I ask them where they're calling from and most of them say they are in India or Pakistan, and sometimes a Middle Eastern place like the UAE where lots of South Asians have moved. They sell all sorts of stuff from insurance to long distance plans to duct cleaning service and travel packages. There's nothing I can do to stop these guys and when I answer the phone they speak as though they are some seldom-spoken-to relative calling me after a long time. Friggin annoying. I'm on the Canadian National Do Not Call List which reduced telemarketing calls by about 75% despite its huge list of exceptions...but of course it doesn't apply to international efforts to sell crap.

rundll32...let us never forget

It's India. If you don't understand, spend some time there, and not just going to touristy sites. It just has no chance of succeeding as a universal replacement IMO.

So when are they going to make it desirable for the non-tech literate to use?

'Suppose we have the capacity to make it possible for the president of the United States at will to communicate with hundreds of thousands of Iranians at no risk or limited risk? It just changes the world.'

What a pathetic example of typical Western arrogance. The usual "America is the best place in the world and everyone should want to be like us" bullshit. Fuck off and learn your place in the world already...what exactly is any Western leader going to say to the Irani population that would "change the world" ? Iranis are using anti-censorship tech to get access to information they want, which doesn't happen to be your propaganda message. Maybe you conveniently forgot but they still vividly remember how the US financed and supplied Saddam's war against Iran in which biological and chemical weapons were used. How about lifting your sanctions and shutting your hypocritcal cakehole about state sponsored terrorism when America supports Saudi Arabia and Israel, the two REAL biggest state sponsors of terrorism? Those actions would speak a lot louder than some pointless, hollow two minute webcast. That won't happen however...as they need both Saudi oil and the Jewish vote. For the US government, those two things are, figuratively speaking, as addictive and judgement-clouding as heroin.

Let 'em die. AOL has done far too many disservices to the internet for any sympathy to be forthcoming.

Mod parent up!

My sister in law worked on the Canadarm 2. She said they used the good old Intel 386 to control its functions for reliability reasons.

The RIAA sucks, but I still pay for my music, at least some of it...by buying vinyl. Mmm, delicious records and analogue sound.

I make no claims about being a superior person but I know that I am having a superior computational experience versus the guy next to me with an Acer laptop running Vista. Credit goes 100% to the glowing logo.

It was worth the Apple tax and I would be overjoyed to continue to pay that tax so that I can use a computer whose UI is not an insult to my intelligence, as limited as that intelligence may be. I wish people would shut up about the proprietary hardware. If you don't "get it", go use Vista or some distro of Linux on commodity hardware. If you like that, fine. A lot of us couldn't be bothered to put up with that crap.