Am I the only one who would rather tap in commands than speak to a device?
If I use it at home people or my dogs will assume I'm speaking to them.
Or the wife will respond with "What?".
Why use it in a public space, so people can hear what you're doing?
I'm sure there are hands free advantages for people, and I think Apple is amazing at pushing the envelope with new ways of doing things, so i'm sure I'll come around at some point.

A hard drive disk rotates. Perhaps if it rotates in the vicinity of such a magnetic field, problems could occur?

Give the TSA a break, they perform a necessary function. Sure there are bad apples, but they are there to keep you safe.

These are clearly fakes. Bart Sibrel, please alert Buzz Aldrin. Again.

So bring a ruler or rolled up newspaper to smack them a bit. And give them sugar candy, they like that.

Who wants a wireless carrier called AT&T-Mobile?

They don't want to do that, because that would create jobs, and jobs are the last thing a corporation wants to create, because jobs are an expense.

I don't need to sit on the bowl forever, pooping takes me little time; squat, drop it, wipe, done. Unless something decides that it doesn't want to fully come out, and it involves waiting for gravity to do it's thing.
The other thing I don't get is; besides a bigger screen, what can a tablet do that my iphone can't, besides not fit into my pocket, and be awkward to travel with, without a bag of some sort?

"So if you're trying to balance a budget"...
Nobody is trying to balance a budget, they are only trying to get reelected.
The way to get reelected is to spend tax money on the people without raising their taxes.

Really some rather tone deaf incorrect choice of notes in "Paint it Black" and others. How can you call it "not bad"?

This should have been in the summary, then I wouldn't have wasted my time thinking the Chinese military peacefully put down the protest, an the US government lied to us about it, and then for a few moments afterwards that Slashdot is controlled by the Chinese trying to put a different face on it.

Slashdot you're beginning to really suck.

When Monsanto has prevented the labeling of GM foods, how do I not buy them?

Gee, someone solved the energy problem. Why am I still skeptical?

Now what will I do with my jailbroken/unlocked 1st gen iPhone?
Hopefully I keep my $70 a month unlimited edge data plan (until this thing dies, which seems like a long way off BTW).

Microsoft decided they needed more time to study how to make second rate imitations of the latest Apple products. But they're even behind the curve on being behind the curve, and while dropping the copying of Apple's decade old iPod, for the 3 year old iPhone, they've neglected to begin full scale imitation of the Apple iPad released last year. Someone should explain to Microsoft the difference between innovation, and imitation.