Is this one of those features 3G user's won't be getting? I can still send music from iTunes to an Airplay device using the Remote app, but this would be a nice little boost.

I've been uprooted a lot lately, so have been exchanging DVDs less often than I used to, so I think I might switch to the streaming plan.

Maybe one question is: Should we be considering Android a mobile gaming platform?

@Se7en_speed: I have been hoping for this for a long time. Cars are precision machines with a lot of risk, and most people neither drive them or care for them with that in mind.

It is kind of good we found out the brain is so much more complex. For a while I was starting to assume AI researchers were just slacking, but now they can claim they don't have the hardware.

@SkyHawkMkIV: Oh, I know. I am a biomedical engineer, I get it.

"The bacteria also contains a self-destruct gene that keeps it from wildly proliferating away from its concrete target..."

I could really see this taking off, assuming enough people have internet connections good enough for it.

Sometimes, when I start feeling especially stressed by technology, I set a "no screen day". Usually Sunday, for a few weeks I hold one day of the week where I don't wake my computer up, don't turn on the TV, and only allow myself to use my phone for calling people.

@Anthropogenesis: I used to use those icons in Linux, didn't realize there was an OS X set. They look great.

@Aidan: I know no one owns the internet, but if the major backbone components were programmed to ignore this kind of request from Chinese servers it would make a lot of data potentially much safer (if we can assume that China's abuses of the internet are signs of it's future potential, of course).

I have often wondered why network providers in China are given equal trust to others. They are so irresponsible with their own network access, should we really allow their systems to have any ability to automatically effect our network access?

@lewisboy: Sure, but free Hulu gives me new content as long as I don't fall more than 5 episodes behind. I suppose I have been in instances where the Hulu Plus offering would have been nice, but that is not a big enough section of my video consumption to make it worth it.

Netflix still looked more appealing to me. $9 and I feel like I have a more expansive catalogue. Besides, $8 a month and we still have to watch ads?

@hntergren: Yeah, I hear about it every once in a while, but never the technical side. A little bit of research seems to indicate that it is primarily an RFID system. There seem to be more than one standard (or maybe just multiple companies with one standard), it is a little tough to sort out.

Does anyone have more information about how these systems work? We have been hearing about them for a while, and they always sound like a terrible security risk...

@KBlack: They allow you to opt out if you submit to a pat down. Since I am not actually concerned with these people seeing or even feeling my body (as long as we ignore the "pervy TSA agent" theory), my form of protest will be making them expend the extra time and man power to do a manual security check.

I only use GV for voicemail, but this app seems to do that nicely.

@thejohnsmith: The screen rotates, I imagine you could put this on either way without any lose of function.

I laughed the hardest at the bombing Japan one. Now I need to spend some time deciding if that makes me a bad person.