@cullen2: Last I heard, Obama was a crackberry addict.

@Suicidal Octopus: Truman, yes. Hoover, no.

The little wascal has spiwit. Bwavado. A touch of dewwing do.

@ItsMeMasih: Extremely easy. It'll only cost you $5, and then your phone will work. Just like magic.

@TomXP411: SIM cards are challenge-response cryptographic devices. Replace 'any carrier you want' with 'any carrier that Apple lets you.'

@Tetsuooooooo: SIM cards are basically challenge-response authentication chips. You could certainly build this functionality directly into the phone, but you aren't going to able to reprogram it without the assistance and approval of both Apple and the network.

@BoscoH: Seriously, that joke was old 15 years ago.

@gallahad: Yeah, but who cares? I can buy a SIM card for any GSM carrier in Canada for $10.

@Scottermonkey: An interesting hypothesis. Yet I offer the comparison of Bush and Obama to Reagan and Clinton. In my opinion, both Reagan and Clinton were far better presidents than Bush and Obama, and I think if you convince most people to put politics aside, they'd agree with me.

@foxh8er: Indeed. America will be so much better under Democrat special interests than under Republican special interests.

@♥♦ Goopplesoft ♣♠: Nook Color sounds like it's Android under the covers.

@qamulek: I never knew Microsoft had a monopoly on game development, or game consoles! Thanks for letting me know!

@MrGOH: Caesar is easy, all you need is a silenced weapon and a stealthboy or two.

@lucasway89: They can't. Every time Microsoft includes something new in the OS, they have to fend off a new anti-trust claim. They even had to disable some of improved the security systems they built for Vista/Win7 after complaints from Symantec and other anti-virus vendors.

@npo4: I looked at that article but got no further than the author: Randall Kennedy is a confessed fraud.

@Odin: Barack Phibama!

@DH: I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.

Modal can work well, although it's still convenient to see other tasks. If Apple had really wanted to be revolutionary, they should have gone with a golden-section based tiling layout.

@LeftClicker: Here you go:

@MrEvil: I think that depends on who you're asking :P. Taiwan, i.e. the ROC, is a friendly, responsible first-world democracy.