I think that information is coming largely from this article.

How are we supposed to know what would be worth it to you and what shouldn't? We could sit here and name stuff all day, but maybe it's not stuff you care about. Or maybe it is. Who knows? The only way for you to know is to investigate on your own.

Personally, for me I haven't jail-broken my phone because it's unlocked. I would have wanted to jailbreak to avoid AT&T, but not necessary given the circumstances. In short, I haven't yet found an app that I needed that I couldn't have. But I'm starting to feel like it might be a necessity in the long run, since Apple is banning stuff arbitrarily (i.e., one app can use "fuck" and another one can't), and that really bothers me.

I think the idea is that if you don't need to jailbreak to switch carriers, then many people won't bother to jailbreak. It all comes down to whether you think people are jailbreaking to use apps or whether they're jailbreaking primarily to switch carriers. I tend to believe the latter, though I could surely be wrong.

I could definitely use a BS key. I'm tired of writing it myself.

As the events in Iran show, hand-counted vote != fair vote.

I think, the older I get, I just come to the realization that the vote is really more about the appearance of actually having a say in your government. The vote in Iran was probably rigged. The 2004 U.S. election showed significant voting irregularity in several counties in New Mexico and Florida, in the case of the latter the bunk counties were apparently running the same type of machine (optical scanning). It's pretty well accepted nowadays that JFK was voted in thanks to the mob rigging the election in Illinois.

The problem is, this is all impossible to prove...E.U. citizens, for example, think their vote is fair, but is it? Was the Iran vote fair? Who the hell really knows.

Therefore, I guess my point is, I don't really believe in the veracity or any vote, anywhere, anymore.

And even if the vote is counted accurately, we are all really just voting for the people that corporations and powerful people have pre-approved for us, since any true grassroots candidate will be either tarnished, destroyed, or assassinated before they have a chance at real power anyway.

So, armed with all those conclusions...sure, go ahead. They might as well go ahead and make it so "my voice can be heard" (yeah, right), without making me walk down to the damned polling booth.

Just a point of clarification that this applies to google.cn, and obviously does not apply to google.com, which those of us in Beijing can also see.

Err...you could just have been out all day and your phone - replaceable battery or not - is just drained.

Am I the only one that didn't miss that Flash has for over a year been able to play .H264 natively?

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:9:Update:H.264

Citation please?

Well, putting aside whether this plan would actually work or not...assuming it did, I would think you'd want to spend $1000 because if four or five houses around you get repossessed you might find you lose $50,000 off the value of your home.

Secondly, you won't have to pay $1,000 anyway; they're borrowing the money from other nations that actually have some cash. That's why Hillary's been traveling around the world lately; she's begging everyone for money.

You'll only pay when/if your country gets repossessed. :)