@350xtaZ: The problem is that the airlines are forced by the government to use this security. They don't get to choose how many ridiculous measures get put in front of their gates.

@zykqpw2: Do you have a source on this? This would be good to know.

@streeeeetch: You can run the RUU with a broken screen. It just flashes the phone, and when it says its done, it's done, everything is done on the computer. And if its just the digitizer that breaks, I've never used a recovery that requires use of the touch screen.

@streeeeetch: I'm on an insurance plan myself, I just flash it back to stock before sending it in. If its too borked for you to flash it, its too borked for them to tell that it's flashed.

@boomshakalaka: Not entirely sure about that one, actually. I don't have one either, but my co-worker does. There is a good chance it won't work though, since flash is probably compiled using the NDK, which means the ARM binaries contained in that apk you have won't run on the Intel-based Google TV units out there.…

@abeeee: Except, as a Google employee, his phone would be running Android, and therefore be linkable to his main/work Gmail account, as well as having his location information. In other words, bad idea.

@Yeah!: Doesn't work. They block by flash version now.

@neergrm: Once you get push email, you might actually see your email usage go down.

@akacrash: The Hero is slightly underpowered, but overall, it's still a great phone. And it's better than any Blackberry I've used. Make sure to grab the newest OTA update to fix some of the bugs that come with the newest flashable update.

@davepermen: Except the pay version doesn't exist yet.

@in ottermann speramus: It should, since you're blocking them at the hosts file.

Despite fixing the visual bugs, the framerate on the new version is unplayable on the HTC Hero. At least they got it to show up in the market for me now.

@soldstatic: Because the sort of people who want to import gmail contacts into Facebook are not the type that are smart enough to go grab a CSV out of gmail. Also, if it's inconvenient, people won't want to do it, and this is Facebook's primary way of advertising.

@Joel Forsyth: The big reason MKVs are still so hard to play on most mass market devices is due to Hollywood bitching, and the desire for you to just pay to stream it from Zune/PSN.

@acidrain69: You mean the female kind?

@kojimarou (is my PSN and Gamertag): Why not? Chrome is designed so you almost never see the version number.

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!: It's sort of like that in some universities, though you do have the ability to leave the campus in that case.

@snapper.fishes: Mine did (HTC Hero and Barcode Scanner), but it took a while.

Couldn't they do a serial port over bluetooth connection to lose the giant dongle?

@Moose: Not very easily, but it does work.