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I need this for my non-charging dock!
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- "random picture taking has/will solve this"
1. I routinely take my ezpass to rental cars. I have never received any trouble from "random picture taking"

2. Since the system is so hackable, and any id is easily updateable it would be really easy for someone to update multiple cars with hacked id tags. The attacker could also pick fleet cars since their toll tags will be under less scrutiny. Since the tags can so easily be updated, it would be difficult to prove which one was hacked by a hacker.

-"there should be a switch to turn on/off the transponder"
3. Putting the tag in your glove compartment won't guaranteed that the tag won't be read. I recently rented a car that had a special cage that the ezpass was in. if you wanted to use the ezpass, you just slide the box open. If you dont want to use it, you keep the box closed. I'm assuming this will also thwart any attempts from a passerby to read or write to your card.

(Mii's + Coverflow)

If the design team of Nintendo and Apple had a baby, it would be this dashboard.

For those of you who don't get it:

1. I want to use text messaging. That's part of the great thing about using the cell phone.
2. However, I still get about 15-30 random text messages a week from people I dont know, spam etc. At 25Cents a pop, thats a lot of money.
3. Yes I can go to Verizon and tell them to shut off text messaging completely, and thereby eliminating the extra charges, but see point 1.

Just because I want to use text messaging doesn't mean I should have to be subject to extra fees associated with Verizon or any other carriers inability to control spam or other users.

There is no configurable spam block, and you can't block specific numbers. It's either all on or all off. And thats ridiculous.

Plus the whole notion of charging for text messaging is ridiculous anyway. The way text messaging works on the cell phone network, it actually cost the phone company next to nothing to send your text message yet they charge 50 cents (send and receive) on the transaction.
This is almost a complete dupe of hektor the spay paint inkjet. I saw this at the pompidou back in 2003.

http://www.hektor.ch/
1. Internet in planes is not new. It's been around for years. Internet in domestic flights is new.
2. Phone calls in flight are not new. It's been around for even longer.
3. I tested voip over airplane internet about two years ago. The connection quality was poor, latency was bad. I doubt that people will be using this to jabber for entire flights.
4. I don't understand why this hasn't caught on sooner on domestic flights.

For those of you who are interested, I was getting ping times of around 500ms to 1s and I was able to stream video from a home server at 80kbps.

My birthday is coming up. please please please!
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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