I had my bike stolen from work one time. I filed a report with the police, gave them the serial number (when you buy a bike at REI they give you a packet with the serial written down for you), and promptly went out and bought another bike. Who's ever heard of police recovering a stolen bike? Comedians make jokes about…

One issue is the question of how much of your CPU/RAM/battery Carrier IQ is using. If it's having a detrimental effect on your experience by making the phone run slower or die faster then it's a big enough deal to bitch about, IMHO. ;-)

According to Carrier IQ there are a lot of things it can do. The most obvious is that it can record your location and network/data status at the time of an event (i.e., what was happening and where when your text failed to send or you couldn't load a webpage?). This gives them information about signal, congestion, and…

"Of course we're not sexting, mom. We're too busy talking about HAM radio!"

Well, first, the writers here were probably in elementary school or junior high when there was no internet, so the answer to that was probably, "not much." Second, why are you reading a tech blog if you have little interest in reviews of tech?

Sweet. Time to Occupy Your Girlfriend's House.

Megapixels aren't necessary for sharp images or good color. A good CCD can give you sharp, vibrant images at 5MP. I don't mind the smaller CCD as much as the quality of the color and the low light noise... that's really disappointing. Especially since I'd hoped this would be my next phone. Ugh.

I don't know what kind of diabetic your dad is, but I'm a type I diabetic (insulin dependent - I don't make any insulin of my own) and it would take weeks of high blood sugar before I fell into a coma. This isn't to downplay the seriousness of hyperglycemia (which can cause blindness, kidney damage, loss of…

Are you from the city of Bellingham, WA? We're referred to as Bellinghamsters... I've been a hamster for about 6 years now.

The ITU expanded the definition of 4G to include HSPA+ at the same time they included LTE and WiMax (worth noting that they mention LTE and WiMax specifically, but also agree to regard as 4G, "other evolved 3G technologies providing a substantial level of improvement in performance and capabilities with respect to the…

Do you remember the days when your phone battery lasted three or four days before charging?

Technically none of the technologies out meet the ITU-R specification for 4G status, which is 100Mbit/s for highly mobile devices (cars, trains) and 1Gbit/s for low mobility (people). The ITU-R backpedaled and acknowledged LTE, WiMax and HSPA+ as 4G ostensibly because they show significant advancement toward true 4G…

They are. It's really a stalemate because they haven't come up with a way to test science to see if it works. If only there were a method...

So I've been involved in lobbying the state legislature for about six years now for a bill that mandates sex education be medically accurate. That's it. Just a requirement that they can't lie to kids, tell them they'll get AIDS from using a toilet, or that sex increases the risk of cancer, or whatever. Six years, we…

Other studies I've read have found that abstinence-only education and things like purity pledges tend to delay the first sexual encounter, but not by long, and that when they do engage in sex it's more likely to be unprotected. Which makes sense, because they were never taught about the need for protection, only the…

Do you have a Costco? Here, it carries truRoots Sprouted Bean Trio, which is ready in 15 minutes and doesn't taste like an instant meal (they're really good). I'm sure they're available elsewhere, I just found them at Costco.

A few minutes of research can net you a breadmaker that's pretty easy. Some of them literally require nothing more than tossing the ingredients into the machine and turning it on. It can take care of the stirring and kneading and rising and baking. With those you end up with a mixing blade baked into the bottom of…

The $4 billion price tag for AT&T to walk away ain't chump change. It's $750 million more than Apple's third quarter profit this year. T-Mobile can put that money to good use bringing in more high-end phones and building out their network, or just subsidizing their low prices, to draw in more customers and be even…

I was house sitting for a friend and decided that she had the most annoying microwave ever. So it beeps when it's done, okay. But then it beeps three times again every 20-30 seconds to remind you it's done, until you open the door. I made the mistake of putting a cup of coffee in to warm up while I went to turn on the…

Go to Target today. Buy a microwave. Wrap the box in plastic. Put it in your attic. Wait 20 years or so. Find that generation's hipsters. Sell them the microwave for $7 billion, or whatever inflation has ended up making "a large amount." Brilliant.