My Verizon Fios encrypts nothing that I subscribe to.

+1. Worth about a day or two of pain and a few hours on the phone, but everything was cleared up. Actually rather refreshing to get a new CC # and discover how may things hit the old # each year and cancel the stuff I didn't need.

i.e., will those grandfathered unlimited plans still work on the LTE network?

As may have said, "don't blame the jury, you help pick it". Samsung should never have allowed this guy on the jury.

If it wasn't for watching live sports, I would cut off cable right now. Unfortunately, live sports make that pretty difficult to do if you are a fan. I use a Centon cable card tuner with Windows Media Center. This is a pretty good setup for live TV, I just wish there were some other Windows Media Center Extenders besides an XBOX 360. That thing sucks so much power, I hate to leave it on all of the time.

WMC is a perfectly good DVR, but I find myself using XBMC along with Sickbeard to watch other TV shows. Sickbeard will pull the no commercial version of the show off of Usenet within 15 minutes of it being posted, and those scene guys post things pretty fast these days. I could usually watch Game of Thrones withing 30 of it airing on HBO.

But after not being able to play a single player game for the last two hour because the servers are not working, that is pretty terrible for a launch day.

No matter how unbalanced things might be at the start, you have to be able to PLAY the game!

Sounds like a VPN proxy in the US would do a lot of the things you want. You can get pretty decent ones with very little drop in bandwidth and very little added latency for about $8/month.

As someone without children, WTF are you all talking about and why do people do this?

You can find them here:

http://deadspin.com/5896709/racist-tweets-about-fabrice-muamba-get-student-56-days-in-jail

I find the argument that using the internet is more dangerous than actual speak because more people can "hear" it a bit silly.
These laws seem to have been created to prevent immanent violence based on racial hate on the street, but because the internet records information it is much easier to prosecute these type of "crimes".

Convert gas signs to metric.

Ah, so that is why this looks like it works so well the first time one a trip. I guess you would not get this neat of a video the next time though the same area.

Currently, law enforcement can track cell phones historically via cell site information. This can be useful in breaking an alibi defense, or loosely grouping a band of people together over time. This only problem with cell site information is the fact that cell site info is only recorded as the cell phone is being used. This new info has the potential to tell law enforcement where the phone, and likely the owner, was at times when the cell phone was not even in use.

As with all things cell phones, most states require a search warrant to use anything off of the phone.

I still get them out to play a game or two of Boccie any maybe Frisbee golf, but those were the only games that were any good.

Wrong. A school may forbid conduct that would "materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school.". See Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969)

Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393 (2007)