Google Voice sucks. The stuff it does is awesome, but everything around that part sucks. It hasn't been meaningfully updated in forever. It's interface sucks. It's apps suck. It's dead in the water.

I don't like the idea of Google Voice going away. It's nice to have a throw away number I can give to sales guys at tech conferences.

I think people's biggest worry about the GV/H integration is what's going to happen to our GV phone numbers, especially for those of us who use them for business, number portability, and the ability to give someone our phone number without giving them our ACTUAL phone number. Once that question gets settled, I think a…

What's with the Gawker hatred for Google Voice? It works just fine. I might be more inclined to like Hangouts if I could use it from my cellphone to make 1c-per-minute calls to Europe. But I can't - that's what Google Voice is for.

I wouldn't say hundreds of decades away. Maybe like ten decades. Heck, if we got into a situation like in the movie, and all the nations of the world pooled their resources and all the scientists were able to work together with free and open information, no patents or paywalls (and without fanatics insisting this is…

Free malware with every album download! That's 1 way to piss off your fans. Not Coolio dude.

I'd like to see the gamification come back in Swarm. Badges were fun. The new Foursquare looks great though, and a lot better suited for discovery I think.

I wonder what he senses on his antennae. A resurrected career?

I know...at least put the person on a spaceship with dinosaurs or something. An airplane passenger? ...I'd rather spent my time in the empty room.

Why is it that scientists have no idea how to promote their ideas? Why did we only get to see that lame view of the VR scene on a monitor? I was expecting to see a full screen example, not watch people wave their arms around in a empty room!

My new goal in life is to live long enough to have one of these.

Ill take 2. Thank you.

That's why it's probably Russian-supporting ex-Ukranian soldiers that operated those surface to air missile systems if it was shot down by rebel forces.

The Vice News reporter Simon Ostrovsky who spent considerable amount of time inside the rebels' camp as he was taken prisoner said he saw no evidence of any Russian officers being there. It was mostly locals. I highly recommend VN reports as they don't creatively edit their reports.

By the end of that they obviously know they've made a horrible mistake.

Yeah, just like those bastard who shot down Iranian Air Flight 655

So callous those people who do not think twice before hitting the fire button!

Yeah wiretapping can be great ... in wars. However, I don't recall Western Europe to be at war with the 'murica.

I get what you're saying, but I really, really hate this "if you ignore [person/issue/ete] they will just go away type of argument. First of all, no they won't. We're not "giving him attention" (I realize that's what you and others think; agree to disagree), we're giving attention to the fact that men in positions of…