It's called Windows Phone 7 because it uses 7GB of data per month in standby mode.

Umm, an aircraft with the wingspan of a Boeing 737 is never going to be an inexpensive personal aircraft. Let's not damn this thing for not being practical. It's way cool just the way it is.

Let's see you stay in the air for more than a few seconds from a height of 5-6m in any unpowered aircraft. You'd watch a baby's first steps and say "that's not walking! you didn't even climb a flight of stairs!"

Wrong, or incomplete. One typical reason for erectile dsyfunction (ED) is treatment for prostate cancer, which damages the nerves that control erections. In this case, you can have zero CAD but still need the viagra. Without the viagra, men will not get the nightly erections that are necessary for prevention of scarring and damage to penile tissue.

"When bikers pay into the highway system, then they can have bike lanes". You sir, are a moron. Just because you see me occasionally riding a bike doesn't mean that I do not also own a car and pay taxes. But even if I did not own a car, your argument is specious, since most roads are constructed with general taxation revenue, not gasoline taxes or licence-plate fees. In short, the general population is subsidizing the use of single-occupant motor vehicles. Motorists should in fact be promoting the construction of bicycle infrastructure. A car takes up 10 times the room of a bike, so construction of a route to transport, say, 1000 bicycles a day, should cost only a small fraction of what it costs to transport 1000 cars a day. And further, every time you turn a motorist into a cyclist, you are freeing up space on the road for yourself and your unsustainable car.

What is really retarded is that Microsoft requires you to type a 26-character WEP key TWICE when connecting to a secured wireless network? Why the F%^&* should you have to confirm that key? You are not setting a new key, just entering one that already exists.

Ubuntu has it right - in most places where you have to enter a password, you can optionally unmask the characters.

Most cellular providers have a clause in their terms of service that prohibits running a webserver on your cellphone. You might want to check the consequences before you fire that thing up.

Depending on what country you work in, your marginal tax rate may be close to 50%. That is, for each additional dollar you earn, you pay $0.50 more taxes. On the side of the coin, if you earn a dollar less, you pay $0.50 less in taxes. So, if you work 9 days out of ten (without working an extra hour a day for 8 of them), you will earn just 5% less after-tax income, but have 10% more free time.

Nominally, a 0.9 schedule only gives you 2 days off per month, but many months there's a stat holiday, and if you're in the oil-patch you might get a floater day per month as well, so in practice your 0.9 schedule is actually a 4-day work week.

If more employees were to ask for 0.9 schedules, there'd be fewer layoffs!

So, if I'm mistaken, then why has there been a huge outcry on this issue, and why has Google amended its EULA and admitted they made a mistake? See http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/09/04/chrome.eula.security/