Poodles
Girls with high-pitched voices who laugh at things that aren't funny and use words like "conversate"
Crying babies
People who talk outside your window loudly
Black olives (I hate it when they show up in my food unexpected)

That's the beginning of my personal list. Who do I submit it to in congress to get the law passed?

That's really the only basis for this. Cell phones produce no danger to the planes (the current laws are FCC, not FAA, due to the havoc the cause to the cell towers, not because they produce ANY risk to the plane's equipment), and the other issues are easily overcome, so all that's left is "it's annoying." So's that baby in the row behind me, and the old lady two rows up who keeps saying "WHAT?!" every time the flight attendant asks her if she needs anything. Ooh, I need to add those to my list...

My XM radio broke a while back and was on my mother's family plan. Since getting a Zune and subscribing to podcasts, I hadn't cared for months, so finally told her to cancel it. She had to call, wait through a long hold, and then speak to a representative who did everything he could to keep her from canceling. First he offered her three free months of service (like that's useful on a broken radio), then told her it would be no problem, he was going to take care of the problem for her by sending out a brand new radio free of charge. She told him she didn't want a new radio, just wanted the line canceled. He continued to ignore that and offer the radio, free months of service, and all sorts of things between putting her on hold and other statements. Eventually she hung up on him in frustration. He called back. Wanted her address to send the radio to. She hung up again. He called back three more times. Finally I called in a few hours later and found the account had been successfully canceled. Then they charged her credit card for three more months a few days later anyway, and couldn't credit back to her for an additional three months.

There need to be some laws in place to help protect the consumer against this kind of treatment. I had no issues with XM and could have seen myself returning to them after a need for a new radio arose. They kind of burned out that interest.

Maybe if the Apple software weren't such bloatware I wouldn't care so much. But especially when I'm working on office workstations that the users are already annoyed are slow, and I find three Apple services and a half-dozen Apple applications they don't need, it gets old. And all because one time they wanted to watch a video in Quicktime, or because they have a damn iPod they just HAVE to sync with their work computer.

This also suggests we'll hopefully get a ton of other new functionality and improvements in the process. Since they have to rebuild the entire interface, maybe we'll get some improvements to things we've been holding out for for a long time. I'd like to see some better media support (maybe they'll update the Media Center Extender to support the same formats that the Media Server functionality does) and better organization of it, better on-screen keyboard (please at least add QWERTY as an option), and other little tweaks along those lines.

Looks like good news overall to me.

Now what I'd like to see is them eventually build it right into future Wiimotes. Since it's available separately as well, they won't be disenfranchising any of their loyal users by doing it, either.

It's just too bad the technology wasn't there, or wasn't available to Nintendo, when the Wii launched. This is the technology we all envisioned when Nintendo first explained the controller, and then were somewhat disappointed to find wasn't there. They've made the best of what they've had, but this would have been nice to have from day one.

Loving this new idea. It'd be awesome if the solar panels can get the air conditioner to keep the car cool while parked. I'm wanting more and more to consider an '09 Prius.

8 bits: 256 (a byte, as it's the lowest number of bits that can contain all of the needed text characters)
8 trits: 6561 (roughly only 5 [243] or 6 trits [729] would be needed to equal the data of 8 bits, drastically increasing space over vast amounts)
16 bits: 65,536 (what Windows refers to as "high color")
16 trits: 43,046,721 (more than the highest number of colors Windows supports)
24 bits: 16,777,216 (What Windows typically referred to as "true color")
24 trits: 282,429,536,481 (getting absurd yet?)

I'm going to stop there. Point is, it's clearly drastically more efficient use of space than binary, and goes a long way. If we could make proper use of it, the implications would be awesome.

I can't wait for the Touch Pro.

American "Indians" are, in no way, Indians other than the fact that a very confused Spaniard took a wrong turn in the ocean and concluded that he had landed in India when he got here, and assumed the native people were therefore Indians. The name stuck regardless of how absurdly inaccurate it was. I prefer to refer to them as Native Americans, but the ones I know personally end up using the term Indian to reference themselves, including my wife, so I've had to adjust. But it's still incorrect.