Reminds me of Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. Is this russian lens technician related to Voytek Biroshak?

@Keith Edward Leyson: Don't mention it. Great story btw.

@Sasquatch: You caught that too, huh?

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@Agagulba: Don't ask. Weird night.

@Platypus Man: Thanks for reminding me I had one of those!

@chinonino: No man, that would imply having a GUI, WINE running, some version of MS Office... too much hassle.

@Crisss1205: If you're editing /etc files, you should do it with vi.

@En0s1: That's the coolest band I've ever seen since Gwar.

@nahde: 'Twas a joke, mate ;)

@Way to go, Nuffle: Wow man, the stuff you can find on Wikipedia...

@Way to go, Nuffle: Wow man, the stuff you can find on Wikipedia...

@Edgy: Do you have to use some kind of code to get Sho as a selectable character?

@roninpenguin: So stealthy you can't even see a picture of it.

@tomsomething: What I'd like to know is if they're referring to the observable universe or the universe as a whole.

@mcnee: SMS usually travels on the signaling paths used to control traffic, so it's not data.

@siwex80: They are gone. The only carrier that still used CDMA traded all costumers' old phones with GSM ones for free a while back.

@Trai_Dep: He has five good points if that ninja star is real.

@septiums: Those things are built like tanks. I once threw my N95 about 10 feet in the air while I was trying to call out for someone with the phone in my hand. Apart from the battery compartment opening and an ugly dent, it kept on working until, a year later, another fall to the concrete put an end to the device's…

@pixelsnader: I suspect they shared usability engineers.