This is a mildly hilarious problem. Quick materials science lesson for you all because if I don't use my degree at least once a year I get sad about how much money it cost me:

Except that AT&T will use this as an excuse to stall on build out. The problem with AT&T's coverage is that they stopped expanding their network some time ago. There are graphs out there showing their gross revenue, operating expenditures, and network build out expenditures. The three are proportional for some time…

I love this technology. For those who missed it, there were quite a few videos like this made during the Haiti aftermath. On a crazier note, did everyone else see the guy on the burning building at the very end of the clip? Pan around to the inferno and you can see him on the awning directly above the flaming…

I give it 10 months (post close) for them to drive it into the ground.

Prediction: 9,990 years from now stupid people are going to start freaking out about how the ancient clock is about to end and how it means the rapture/apocalypse is coming.

RIP RIM

You're right. Driving 110 didn't kill him. The abrupt transition from 110 to 0 did.

Seriously, did you miss the FMRI study that discovered that extreme brand loyalties are nearly identical to religious fanaticism? The fans went nuts because the fans were nuts.

That was in response to the device's hardware specs and performance, not physical dimensions. The physical dimensions are inconsequential, like a patient's favorite color.

Yes, god forbid someone at Motorola were to learn the physical dimensions of the iPad 2 ahead of time. They could totally retool their entire manufacturing process for the Xoom to... wait. Why the fuck would this be valuable knowledge in the first place?

I wasn't laughing. ;)

Holy crap, someone saw the "Yes Men" presentation and didn't realize it was satire.

Silly Brit, everyone knows that the key to DIY surgery is a pair of nail clippers.

Those guys or... anyone really. There's a difference between doing a bad job and not even attempting to do the job.

A lot of people are bringing up the engineering costs associated with the jammers' development. News flash, most major companies laid off 10-15% of their engineering force when the recession started. Entry level jobs paying $50-60k a year are still going to brilliant engineers with 5+ years experience and advanced…

50,000 jammers for $17B. Hmm. That's $340,000 per jammer, on average. Unless these things are cobbled together with platinum plated orphan-bones that figure seems a little insane.

How the hell could the court rule against them if the patents are invalidated?

He's quoting Daniel Tosh's stand up comedy routine.

The custom UIs handset manufacturers bundle in aren't necessarily to improve upon the stock UI. Rather, they're to differentiate their offerings in a sea of Android devices. Notice that line about "an HTC experience" they can rely on?

These have some fairly compelling real world applications, even at that price. Walking technicians through service procedures, for example.