There are a bunch of places (here in Boston) where bike paths cross fairly busy roads. The buttons there give oncoming traffic an almost instant red light (and the light never changes without the button press).

All newspapers (and media in general) endorse candidates, and the NYT endorsements are in the opinion section, as are those done on TV stations and other media.

I would take it a step further. You are inherently installing malware when using jailbreak/rooting tools. The fact that you are intentionally using and benefiting from the malware doesn't mean it isn't malware.

The original poster said expanded basic, and not basic. Comcast's "analog crush" still sends the locals (ie, basic) as analog (at least here in Boston) - its just the expanded basic that are now digital-only. In any case, the analog crush is a very good thing to many of us. It means far more HD channels become available. Depending on the compression used, 1 analog channel takes the same bandwidth as at least 2 HD channels (though Comcast seems to want to squeeze 3 into that space) or something crazy like 20+ digital SD channels.

I have always loved how Ticketmaster charges you a fee to print up your own tickets, but they at least still have an option to have them mail them to you for free. I simply refuse to pay to save them money.

I'm sorry, but Spirit lasted years past its expected lifetime. If it had been made by like most typical electronics and devices, it would have stopped working exactly 2 days past its "warranty". I'd hardly consider that a fiasco. As one of the other comments here mentions "90 days and now has 2200+".

I am guessing that the price that the retailer pays for a movie for comes down over time as well, but that is just a guess. I mean, you have all of these $2.99 and $3.99 movies, I'm sure that the retailer didn't pay more than $1 or $2 for them to begin with.

I agree on the 2nd sentence there -- I won't buy a movie unless I've seen it. There were 1 or 2 overhyped movies that I bought prior to watching them, and never again. If they are delaying my ability to see it first, they are only delaying my ability to purchase it. And if I've waited a month after its come out already, I might as well wait a few more months for it to hit the bargain bin price. So not only have they lost out on me being able to purchase it, they've lost out on my purchasing it anywhere near the "retail" price. Good work. Epic FAIL.

Yeah, after all, it was the DoE's fault that Kansas wanted to teach creationism - oh, wait, that was the Kansas board of education.

Thank you. And in addition, it was listed in a check-box list of items. True, it was enabled by default, but the user still had to hit the button to install it.

Yeah, I know about the more advanced ones (I have a F11) but I am assuming that they are not asking for anything more than the very basic model because of cost concerns.

Of course, I really love the heart rate monitor aspect of my Garmin 705 for cycling which records various statistics by the second for playback though it doesn't have the "Own*" type functionality (I think because of licensing issues of the algorithms).

So I forgot the work "monitor" -- it should have been very obvious.

If only this is what a capability of the heart rate, it could make sense. You are thinking something like an EKG/EEG. A heart rate monitor that they are most likely referring to would be something like one sold by http://www.polarusa.com/us-en/ where the basic model just tells you your current heart rate. Nothing about detecting rhythm, etc. Its just how many beats/minute your heart is pumping.

I don't know that I have ever met a native New Englander that has any idea how to drive (especially in the snow)! At least nowhere near Boston.