Did my wife put you up to that last paragraph?

I'm a low-key enthusiast-type that bought an Evo at 27 and am now considering an S4 because it looks like an adult's Evo. I'm doing so because I'm getting too old for the plastic interior and unwelcome attention of the back wing.

If you'd have thrown in anything about valets, I'd be sure my wife put you up to it.

How isn't Roadhouse in this?

You need to level up your nerdery. I work eight hour days cranking out C++, prefer designer labels, have proper meals at good restaurants, and never have anyone question my career choices.

Not saying I'm representative of anything; I just hate the notion that everyone with a tech-related job has the same experiences in life.

I can take or leave the commercial.

I like free things

I totally agree.

Living in Minneapolis made me both agoraphobic and whatever type of Greek word would mean "scared to death to drive with these nut jobs".

Then, I moved to Portland, Oregon, and it was like night and day. Here when that rare someone pulls the life-endangering nonsense that was part and parcel of driving on 35W, I think, "They're not from around here."

Ironically, the last time someone did something crazy in front of me here in Portland, the car had a Minnesota plate.

I'd love to go.

Spartans versus rhino!

I've carried a lot of prototype phones over the years, and I have to say that with the exception of the black RAZR, no one has ever been impressed that I was carrying a prototype phone. The people that were interested in the black RAZR were just excited because they were giving those out at the Academy Awards.

Pretty, but how can they target the "premium" market with just GPRS? Take the wifi stack out and at least get an EDGE radio in there.

The class of vulnerabilities they're talking about are data validation flaws (SQL injections, buffer overruns, shell codes). Most of these problems can be stopped by just validating your input (and 'safing' it as necessary) before sending it willy-nilly through your program.

Of course, this presupposes that most developers can actually design software for the real world.