@HiddenCommenter: How meta of you.

I still don't buy that Apple was 'stunned' by the revelation of how borked the signal bars were. Apple's too deliberate in everything to let that slip. And it's made a lot worse by the fact that every 10dB is a difference of a power of 10, so a 20dB signal loss is .01 the power of the original amount. So the range of…

Arizona gets "safe and sane" stuff in December.

How do I know that the little banner ad is an iAd vs. one that will dump me into the browser? Just to be safe, I'm still not touching it.

@lldsandsFLll: I think they're targeting the sea cargo shipping, which this would be a big improvement over.

@jayrock423: I think they might as well have just cut that down to "We ARE NOT appeasing customers."

On the spacebar...

Current VZW subscriber here.

For $10 a month, I was hoping for more than what I can already get for free via my antenna, plus past seasons of old shows (many of which I can get via Netflix, disc or streaming).

Where is Sol from? Sounds like a great reason for me to not get an iPad here in the hottest city in the country.

I was really hoping for someone to use FaceTime for a live view inside the blender/microwave...

I still stand by my theory that Apple was well aware, and that's why for the first time in all the iPhone launches, they've been pushing the cases (bumpers) so hard.

Wonder how the residents of Farmville, VA, and Farmville, NC feel about all this nonsense?

@StupidSimple: They've discussed the fact that there's too much pressure and too much volume for an explosives-based approach. Even a nuclear-sized blast, drilled further underground, wouldn't do enough good.

@Applerain: Because they don't look like that.

@WestwoodDenizen: Given the enormous wattage that a studio pulls, they're probably on separate electrical services (or phases) anyway. The last TV station I was at, a car could hit a pole a mile away, and half the building would go out. Has happened to our college studio too. Normal fluorescents still work, but the…

@ballmatic: Same here for my TiVo.

As a legitimate member of the media, it can get a bit annoying with the amateurs-turned-'citizen journalists' who think they're entitled to the same treatment. They don't understand that we know the boundaries, not just in a general sense, but also having been around our local law enforcement and other agencies, what…

@Ninja Nemo: Get iNotifyYou from the App store and you can add numbers to all your icons...

The iOS4 package that iTunes downloaded was corrupt, and just about bricked my iPod Touch 2G. I had to find another source for the .ipsw file and force it manually. Even then, all the music on it has a duration of 0:00 and won't play, but it shows it has 6GB of music. yay.