Thank you for a well thought out response. I've been losing my faith in the /. community lately and you've rekindled that in me.

I take my hat off to these kids who are showing real resolve against a system that would rather they just give a little to get a little.

America will not always have boom times but there is no reason to have a society where not being born into wealth means having to live in a state of fear where 99% of the populace is one health issue away from bankruptcy.

Just by the way here, comparing the Makerbot to a mill is not valid. The Makerbot has a 2'x2'x2' footprint and can sit on a coffee table.

Unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful. Yay far /.

There is something to be said about information density in character based languages. A short sentence in Japanese can expand to a paragraph in English simply because concepts are more dense than phonetics. If I had a hard character limit for a message I would much rather say it in a character based language; it's be a lot more efficient. To make a blanket statement like that is just foolish.

I agree completely! My first was a Lamy Safari and at $25 it really hit the Neat Tool mark for me. There's something about writing that works well for my mind and physical copies can't be lost with a simple rm -rf.

Learning new things all the time, thanks!

I do like the NoScript wildcard https enforcement though, its got a slightly different use.

Thank you sir! I've been looking for another extension to force the Firefox searchbar to user Google SSL for 30 minutes now.

Why install another extension when I already have good old NoScript.

Who or what is a Taylor Momsen?

Also: News flash, people try to use misleading titles to get people to their ads.

Yes, very much so, in a Carl Sagan "wow the universe is big and we're small" kind of way, not a Steven Hawking "don't talk to alien strangers" kind of way ;)

Time for people to start demanding municipal broadband from their communities. Local government is going to be less self-interested in limiting packet speed than monolithic Comcast and AT&T.

Yeah, and that tactic worked so well, they did it twice!

Wrong.

Most of the time these technologies don't work or don't have a sufficient level of customization to make them useful. Cellphone predictive text (not smartphone) has been pretty bad for years, especially for short words (did I mean "he" or "if") and it doesn't get patched. The only solution is to buy a new model which makes me wary since I'm already expected to just make due until something better comes along. Yes, Android and all that but I'm talking plain vanilla cellphones.

Does it make me a technophobe to not want a camera recording me all day while I use a computer, just so the machine can simulate things that my brain already does?

If nobody knows Steve Job's email, then how can we confirm that the headers indicate it was sent by him?

We "know" nothing, however as others have said, Occam's razor basically applies here - all the other explanations are more convoluted and require more jumps in logic.

I don't see why it's hard to believe that Steve Jobs would reply to a question like this with a "No." For one thing, it sounds like him. For another thing, I doubt he'd see it as big news that there'd be no tethering. It's not like they're planning to have some big announcement at MacWorld or something that the iPad and iPhone won't tether. Oh no! Steve Jobs just spoiled his next "oh, one more thing!" No tethering!

Also, this story has actually been around for a couple of days now and nobody from Apple has denied it.

Lastly, I just want to say that email addresses are funny. Most celebrities and public figures have email addresses that would be the first thing you'd guess. I can't remember what the exact address in question here is but when I first saw the story elsewhere, I wasn't surprised that it was something like steve.jobs@apple.com. The reason people think "nobody knows" these addresses is simply that random emails from outsiders usually get ignored, and also because most people think the most obvious address would *never* actually be real. But even most celebrities, in my experience, don't really care *that* much about keeping their email address private, especially because they all have other, *actually* private email addresses that they use for important stuff, like chatting with friends or family. The professional email address just has a bunch of filters that separate all the random stuff out into junk folders.

I actually get to work with a lot of celebrities for my work, and the first few times somebody handed me their card with an address like "alec.baldwin@gmail.com" on it (that's not real - though it may be! - but just an example), I was really surprised. But now I realize how common it is.

I have no idea why Jobs would respond to this one email, but maybe he was just searching through his junk mail box and it piqued his interest for some reason.

We're going through the same thing right now with wireless telcos that we did with ISP's about 10-15 years ago. Some people probably don't remember it, others may have actually been too young to really know about it, but there was a time when the cable and phone companies considered having a router on their service as a terms of use violation. They would cut you off if they discovered it. People would actually hide their routers whenever they'd have to make a service call (I remember doing this!). They charged for internet use per connection, so to them using a router was "theft" because you could use one router for many different computers.

Of course, today that sounds ridiculous, and ISP's even give away wireless routers. Verizon's standard DSL and FiOS modems are wireless routers.

So hopefully in 10 years (or less), we'll be at that same point with the wireless telcos, where they realize they'll actually get more business by simplifying and letting people do what they want with their connections. And they actually will sell their service per household or subscriber, and not per device connection.