So according to http://www.facebook.com/ATT?v=app_7146470109, tethering will not be $55 additional per month. I've not seen an official announcement from AT&T (I don't consider appmodo to be "official" and they don't link to anything).

Anybody have an official link?

The tone doesn't "sound" very official, but isn't this the official AT&T Facebook page?

Yeah, I don't buy it. I was on the intertubes in the early nineties, and I distinctly remember trolls running around Usenet.

That said, the caliber of trolling may have been slightly higher. :)

But it will support Bluetooth headsets with 3.0.

Size. Scanner is 8"x10" or so. The actual DPI of the scanner is lower than a traditional camera CCD, but there is so much more space. Your exposure time is how long it takes the scanner to traverse a "page".

Focusing seems painful.

The technology was built by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as part of their studies at Standford. Google did not just buy their page rank algorithms.

It's easy to make the keys look far apart in a landscape mode. Go back to portrait and talk to me then.

I used to work at a company providing enterprise systems for higher education. Fall registration was panic season; we were in fire-alarm mode for most of August and September.

Those were good times. :)

Cow farts are carbon neutral. Grass sucks the carbon out of the atmosphere, cows turn carbon into dinner and flatulence, carbon re-enters the atmosphere. Get rid of cows, and you'll have grass fires returning that carbon to the atmosphere.

Yes but not all carbon is created the same. The methane from cow farts has much greater greenhouse potential than CO2, CO, and soot from grass fires.

I can't believe I'm seriously posting about cow farts. Must get back to work. Must. get. back. to. work.

Methane is a much more dangerous greenhouse gas than co2 alone.

Eating less meat will make a bigger impact than driving less.

Yes, and properly pastured cattle sequester carbon dioxide as well.This doesn't mean the methane issue goes away, but if we could eat less meat, make CAFOs go away, and raise cattle in a more sustainable manner, I think we'd come out ahead.

I am a little puzzled here--how do properly pastured cattle sequester co2? If you do grass farming, the cattle's manure will fertilize the grass, but I wonder if there is a net sequestration in the process.

Carbon neutral but not global warming neutral. Methane is worse, like 1000 times worse, per molecule, than CO2.

More interesting to me (since Overstock.com and Traverse Mountain are nearby) was the linked article ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overst... ).

It is interesting to think about how much power the Wikipedia inner circle has over public dialogue. Wikipedia is often people's first stop when trying to find out about something new - if they show bias, it could change that dialogue significantly.

May be it should not be people's first stop. If any one uses Wikipedia in an argument I ask for an authoritative source.

It's an encyclopedia. Would you use Britannica for an argument? No. You would use whatever materials it cites. Wikipedia is the starting point for an argument, not the evidence to support one.

Yes. But 'should' is not 'is'.

I wish I could vote this up more for Be wary of code maniacs who don't care what the product is. That is true, regardless of the size of the company. I've seen those "code maniacs" drive a company into the ground because the technology was more important that the product.