How about a control for choosing the comment thresholds for a story that works well with touch interfaces? The slider that is there now requires to click and drag, which is not possible without a mouse. I am sure a lot of people read slashdot on their tablets and phones and would appreciate that.

Don't forget AT&T's own Pay As You Go operation. 10c/min and 500 MB for $25 that rolls over if you add at least $5 worth of data every month.

I actually like the lack of free food now: it motivates me to buy food before departure and I usually end up with something better than the typical airline food.

That said, I feel that it's not a free market but a rip-off when there is no price competition for these services. When you compare the tickets, none of the sites show you the price of the meal next to the price of the ticket.

Yahoo Mail unofficially enabled IMAP, since forcing mobile users to read mail in a browser was not working well. Details here:

http://guillaumeb.com/ym/imap.html

There needs to be a distinction between unions in the private sector for workers without very specialized skills - necessary to prevent imbalance of power in negotiations - and the public sector unions. The latter ones are a problem since the employers (governments, school districts, etc.) do not have much incentive to extract the best possible deal from the union.

Add to that campaign contributions and huge cost of a strike - since public sector employees provide many essential services - and you get a huge imbalance of power that is just as bad as exploitation of workers by the management.

You are right. For movies to be really enjoyable, the directors need to choose whether to use 3D or shallow depth of field - but not both. It also seems that only some people find it annoying. Many people do not find anything wrong with the current 3D movies.

Mirror is flat, but it faithfully reflects everything in front of it, so the eye can still focus on the objects that are near and the objects that are far.

That's a good question. It seems that something inside our head has evolved or learned to turn off auto-focus when looking at 2D images of 3D objects. But when we see a stereo picture, the auto-focus is back on, and fails miserably.