Everyone should by a Panasonic product, then promptly return it for full refund. Once Panasonic (and other evil manufacturers) start receiving thousands of return items, they may wake up to the fact that customers want to make their own choices.

I'm a daily Slashdot user/reader and am located on Kwajalein Atoll. We're on the equator just west of the international dateline and thousands of miles from anything. Kwajalein Atoll is the site of a large radar installation run by the US Army. All the ICBM tests launced out of Vandenber, CA, are targeted to land here and we track the (unarmed) warheads all the way to splashdown, just off our islands. We also track and maintain a catalog of all the stuff circling overhead in orbit, from space junk to space stations. It's pretty cool work, but VERY remote. We're thankful for our 56K satellite link to the internet. Sure would be nice to have broadband.