Ron Cozby

Pogue also posted an update about reader response (can't paste the link from my iPhone...). He prints lots of comments from readers who agree with his review, none from those who don't, then uses a few crackpot comments to make a "BlackBerry nuts" jibe. Seems like he has an axe to grind... - Jules

I think he's got a point though - Have both? Cup of drink in one hand, which can you pick out a single song from a list of hundreds quicker on with the other hand? Wheel or touch? - Chris Weiss via twhirl

If there's one thing Pogue hates, it's criticism. No one likes it, but he goes to great lengths to refute it. - Veronica

Chris, frankly the scroll wheel tires the heck out of my thumb. I've found that I can find songs faster on the touch/iPhone. - Veronica

I was surprised to see that the readers agreed with Pogue about his review. As soon as I saw Gruber's post, I thought there would be a RIM riot, but nope. - Larry Hudson

I'm sure the ones he picked were a little skewed. - Veronica

It probably has to do with enclosures in the RSS feed. - Jason Huebel

I'd like to know also, if you get a chance - Tom Mack

If the audio is in the feed, FF will put the player in itself. I have my Utterz feed listed in FF, and when I leave an audio post FF puts that little player in too. - Ciaoenrico

Please change "Steve Gibson's comments" to "Steve Gillmor's comments" on the description page for this episode. :) - Dr. Apps via twhirl

Rest in peace Pownce... - Kyle DeFacis

Really nce discussion of Friend Feed - Nice Fish Films

I'll never forget Emilio Estevez eating the can of dog food. And let's face it, this movie features Harry Dean Stanton. HARRY DEAN STANTON! - wyclif

"Let's go eat sushi and not pay" is my all time favorite quote - Laura Norvig

Repo Man's got all night, EVERY night! - Fleagle

I would link my Netflix account to FF except for the fact that my wife has access to the account - Aaron Eaton

My cats threw up on the PC after this! - Charles Alden

Hello cat ? - cherio77

So this is what Jon Stewart was talking about the other day...Cute. :) - Alejandro S.

I'm speechless after watching this... - Brian Sloane

@Leo: perhaps, but health benefits for life just doesn't work anymore - Dave Hodson

You want to save Detroit: institute national health insurance. Labor costs for the Japanese plants in right-to-work states like Tennessee are very similar including pension and healthcare benefits, BUT they're newer plants so they don't have as many retirees. Are the Big Three supposed to jettison their retirees? That's where the big expenses lie. - Leo Laporte

Leo - as is, those benefits will disappear in a Chapter 11 filing - Dave Hodson

The unions are destroying the auto industry by holding the big 3 to unrealistic terms. Some blame has to go to automakers for agreeing to those ridiculous terms. - Jim Bednarz

Everyone talks about the union workers needing to make concessions. What concessions are the CEOs going to make with their stratospheric salaries, bonuses and compensation. It has to be a balance. You can't be selective with your criticism. How about management's decisions. You can't blame the workers for management's business plan. They didn't choose to build gas guzzlers and no energy efficient and alternative fuel vehicles, top level management did They need to go. - Rolf Schewe

Both sides of the aisle need to get realistic, really fast... B.S. CEO salaries and golden parachute benefit pkgs need to go away NOW and lame Union mentality is digging US automakers into a graveyard hole they will never surface out of. Lesson learned - stop milking the US tax payer and get your ass to work like the rest of the world. Deliver valuable products and folks will buy them.... end of story - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

There's health care too. CEOs wrongheadedness is more of a reason why they are in bad shape. American cars are crap. Period. If they sold enough cars they would have money to pay their employees. Sure these union contracts can be more reasonable. But the union bashing is just right wing blather. All this talk bashing unions and hoping for these companies to go bankrupt is a trojan horse for union busting don't kid yourself. If people hate them so much then try and give up the benefits they established. - Rolf Schewe

Government should have never stepped in on the free market. These companies would have filed ch11 and possibly had their shares sink low enough that a company would have bought and restructured the companies. That is how a free market works. This "Raw Deal" is going to have an impact on not just us in the short term but our grandchildren and their grandchildren. Look it up, we are still seeing crippling effects of projects started by the "New Deal." Who really thinks this won't just be more of the same? - Raymond C

Once upon a time there were Corporate jobs for life that came with full benefits, health insurance for life, and retirement. Corporations had to know that when the "Baby Boomers" retired there was going to be reckoning. They once HAD the money invested to pay for these promises but they allowed the CEOs and Board of Directors to raid those accounts (Cash Pensions). Perhaps they never had any intention of paying or maybe they just got greedier and found a way. - Internet Strategist

The difference in the value of money between countries makes it impossible to pay a living wage in the U.S. and compete with a country like India where $1 USD is roughly $46 in their money. Something in the U.S. economy has got to give and "you ain't seen nothing yet". - Internet Strategist

the 70 is the cost to the company, not what the worker gets - Gregory Lent

$70 INCLUDING already retired workers - not just the CURRENTLY employed. Many of those retirees worked for poor wages and counted on their promised retirement and income. Other corporations - significantly those WITHOUT Union representation - that made similar promises allowed their CEOs and BODs to steal the funding out from under retirees using Cash Pensions. There once were many sites dedicated to fighting this theft. Looks like they've finally thrown in the towel. - Internet Strategist

Promises that Corporations made IN WRITING to their employees - promises that in many cases kept them working for pay only a fraction of what they would have earned elsewhere - were systematically broken. For example, the base pay for an experienced Tech at Cisco was more than THREE TIMES higher than for a CE holding the same position at IBM. They stayed because of the promise of full retirement after 30 years and health care for life - something they no longer have. But they do still make only 1/3 the pay! - Internet Strategist

Worse yet is the situation of the already retired. Some of the oldest IBM retirees were getting only a few hundred dollars a month when they had to start paying more for their health benefits (which they were promised would never happen) than the ENTIRE amount of their pensions. Warning to those who think they can do better in a 401K. What do you think the US Dollar will be worth when you are 70, 80, 90 or even 60? - Internet Strategist

Fighting Corporations is pretty much a hopeless cause. IBM Employees won the first battle because cash pensions WERE ILLEGAL. Don't know what ever happened. One thing I do know - many bills introduced into Congress do the opposite of what they appear to do and many "grass roots" organizations are funded by corporations. At least with they called this one the EMPLOYER'S Coalition on Medicare instead of pretending they were the EMPLOYEES: http://www.americanprogress.or... - Internet Strategist

in india you could work 30 years for the indian tobacco corporation as an electrician and get 10 dollars a month pension .. - Gregory Lent

Sorry to hear about the problems. Of course, everybody has their own unique way of browsing. For me, Camino is my main browser. I use FF at times when I need the plugins, but I have to say that Camino gets 60% of my time. - Fleagle

Its strange, I use Chrome only at work.. and FF only at home.. yes, I know, I am strange... - Socom