@Illini300C: I had 25 mins. to get across DTW and catch a connecting flight...no time to hang out trying to figure out what had happened. And it was pretty clear that even if I did have the time the flight crew wasn't interested.

Last month I was on a flight, put my backpack in the overhead just before takeoff. When the plane landed an hour later my backpack was soaking wet...like someone had taken it in the shower. Flight crew was, of course, totally mystified as to how it happened. My computer, clothes, etc. were all drenched.

@Dmoralize: Bless you. As an operations/field guy at my company I'm constantly trying to explain how important it is that we get our software engineers out into the field to see how the product is deployed/used.

@nootron: AKA "the Yakuza solution".

Man, my liver's fucked up.

@Eriamjh: No.

It's times like this when I wish I hadn't invested with Madoff...

@kingnerdsciencegeek: Oh bullshit. That's the same lame line that AT&T has spouted for years Re: their crap call/data connections. "No one could have anticipated this, anyone's network would have degraded like this". Whatever...if you think and say that you've got the device everyone will want, then fucking build…

Is AT&T a subsidiary of BP, or do they just use the same PR firm?

@Ryan J Whiteman Nester: IMO not nearly as good as Swype.

Been running the beta for about 2-3 months...it's awesome. Blows away typical "touch" touchscreen typing.

@thenail: Actually, the "crying little bitch" in the room is usually the person that's taking their ball and going home...which is what Apple is doing here.

@zekestone: Part of the freakout effect is the knowledge that its precursor was hit by a ship and a ton of people were killed:

This one has always kinda freaked me out.

@medopal: I'm moving to Android, and I only install "Pro" apps that have no ads...if I install an app and find that it has ads (this happened with the Android app that's like Swankomatic) I uninstall it. I despise ads and will happily pay for a non-corrupted app.

@medopal: Which apps are those? Let me know, so I can be sure not to install them.

When will the gov't. be passing the iPhone stimulus act?

@soldstatic: A lot. Swype was actually invented by the guy that created T9.

@bugattatra - just scored a running '75 Fiat 124 Spider - por gratis, ehhhh?!!: They already had that, it was called the Pinto.