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9 posts • joined Monday 19th April 2010 08:21 GMT

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Re: I like real buttons

One real button and two capacitive buttons is better than the god-awful onscreen buttons found on most other recent Android devices.

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Re: You know...

>I think I'm on to something here...

Doing unpaid proofreading work for a for-profit website?

You deserve a gold badge.

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Are you wondering if he's ever used Metro

...or crack?

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Say what?

Of course we are, and we don't even need to pay GST on goods under $1000.

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Facepalm

Appropriate use of tech jargon

Video "bricked"?

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Headmaster

"an iPad for GPS navigation and avionics."

It flies, too?!

Holy cow.

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gouging

"carriers that price a mobile gigabtye at up to $80"

Up to $80? Virgin charges 0.2c/KB, or $2,097 per GB. Not too long ago the rate was 1.5c/KB.

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Surveillance of students in commonplace in the US.

Check this video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/how-google-saved-a-school.html?play

Watch the creepy assistant principal (from 4:30-6:00 in the video) as he observes students remotely, and says with glee, "They don't even realise that we're watching. I always like to mess with them and take a picture."

There'll be plenty more lawsuits.