Step 1: Get over yourself. Every time I've opted out of the nudity cancer machine, it has been in the defense of my rights. Your convenience does not supersede this. Every time I fly is national opt-out day for me. But hey, great writing, keep using non-judgmental words like 'tantrum' to describe people with…

@mikehart526: "Flying is not a right, it's a privilege."

@kbftech: Conjoined twins have historically died more or less simultaneously. One set of organs can't support two bodies, so the living twin dies very soon after the other.

One of the main reasons I got a civic as my latest car was its dashboard. Hands-down my favorite instrument panel on any car ever. The actual important stuff is raised up for me to be able to be aware of without ever taking my eyes off the road, the less-important stuff is down lower where it's not cluttering up my…

The Bing app has been doing photo searching for a while now. Plus it works dandy on the non-autofocus ipod touch 4G.

Are the high end programmable rice cookers suitable for things like soups and pastas and other non-ricey cooking? I was under the impression that their cooking cycles hinged on measuring the moisture on the food and would go haywire if you stuck a non-rice food inside.

@az060693: They have more raw processor power on paper, yes. But you have to bear in mind that a gaming system has everything optimized for the sole purpose of playing a game, and as such milks far more performance out of relatively modest hardware.

@MrGOH: I actually quite enjoyed Speed Racer. Not in a 'oh wow this is a great movie' way, but in a 'this bad movie is fun to watch, hey lookit the cars' way. It's a good example of a mindless fun movie, whereas Transformers was an example of a too-mindless unfun movie.

@Ridley: No, I'm not concerned about what some poor farmer with a rusty AK-47 on the other side of the planet is going to do to me.

@djmashedman: My 2G touch was crippled by OS4. I had to lose my savegames on everything to roll back to 3.12, but I'm still glad I did.

@Ridley: The iPod basically is an iPhone, so no real work for them to make facetime work on it. But yes, it's more than a little stupid for them to have this new video conference standard and not implement it on all of their computers with webcams built in.

@Lazarou: At that point, you really ought to just buy an iPhone.

@PensoTroppo؟: If I were you, I'd just get a real phone. As in a phone that is only a phone and not a phone/music player/web browser/blender. They're cheap, and they tend to be vastly better at making calls than iPhones and smartphones and everything else that tries to do everything. Then grab an iPod and leech off…

@Mind_Grapes: AT&T basically.

@Preacher iTofu a.k.a. Scammer Money: That wi-fi map thing is actually pretty scary. I fired up my ipod in my office a while back and opened Maps to look something up, and watched in horror as it zoomed right in on my location, which I had never typed in. It freaked me the hell out, I had to go and look up how it…

@Preacher iTofu a.k.a. Scammer Money: Given that most of those downloads were fart apps, flashlights, and point-based social network scam games, I think that comparison may be a smidgen dishonest of Apple.

@matt_mcmhn: Ayn Rand=Objectivism, which earns points for being far-fetched even for social theory. You get some social theories like fascism that work as long as enough blood flows, and some like communism that sound nice but fail when human nature is added to the equation, but then you get to objectivism and even…

"Yes," said Steve Jobs when asked, "we are going to ruin the day of those jailbreakers like you wouldn't believe." When asked about the mobile security exploit that would allow any malicious website to immediately infect millions of Apple devices, Mr. Jobs cocked his head and furrowed his brow.

@geolemon: AT&T's data bandwidth is about an eighth the amount of a 4G connection. So "enough data" at 700kbps versus unlimited data at 6mbps and the price difference makes a lot more sense.

There are other, more useful mobile hotspots from clear that work for any device. More specifically, they have a 3G/4G hotspot that's a rebranded Sprint Overdrive, so even when you're out of a 4G service area you still have some net access. They also have a black version of the 4G hotspot that isn't locked to Apple…