The Electric Company, huh? I'd tell them:
fu.......ck fuck

o........ff off

fuck off

You obviously don't run a business. By allowing a "loophole" such as this, AT&T and Best Buy are counting on human nature. If you actually read the article, at the end he mentions that it has become "precious" to him and that he might not return it. The "try before you buy" model is tried and true. It works, because people don't always return the stuff. Maybe they're lazy and don't around to it, maybe they decide to keep it on purpose. Rebates work the same way - would you say that someone who filed their rebate is irresponsible? Read more Wired articles. Free is a good business model, as long as not everything you do is free. The key to success is knowing what to give away and what to charge for. You see, even if he returns the phone now, he's still going to pay for the first month of service, and that's money that AT&T keeps. There was a sale made here.

Wow, you're right! I never thought of this before. This must mean...they were IN ON IT! Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I've already started writing a book about how the Soviets were party to this massive deception.

This is a huge legal liability and invasion of privacy. You would have to keep the presence of the GPS feature hidden from the patient. Alzheimer's patients that do run away often experience paranoia. If they knew about the tracking device, they'd deliberately take off the shoes. They're not stupid, they're brain damaged. My mother was quite crafty for a while there, and when she got mean-spirited, you really needed to watch your step. If she had run, we'd probably not have found her in time. So, to be effective, this has to be involuntary. My mother is dead now, but there is no way I would ever "tag" her like this. What an indignity to have Alzheimer's in the first place. I'll be damned if I'm going to heap on another one with a wildlife tracking mechanism. We should just say no, with our lack of dollars for these jerks.

My Linksys WRT54G is notorious for getting slower and slower over time when we use P2P here at the house. I found that rebooting it every day helped. Not even DD-WRT made that problem go away. I think the Linksys just didn't have enough "oomph" to do traffic shaping. There's an interesting solution I came up with - buy a second Linksys and flash it with DD-WRT. Turn on traffic shaping for all ports. Use the second Linksys as your Internet facing router, and leave the default firmware on it, but define the second Linksys as your DMZ system. It works, and for some reason the first Linksys doesn't need to be rebooted all the time.