Our kibosh causes another pickle
Prologue: Kiboshing a pickle
Epilogue: Comments on today’s story “T-Mobile is a white elephant“
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Peace in our time! Or our comments thread, at least
GoAwayObama: The problem with PC sales is there hasnt been any real speed increases in CPU's in years. I just got a brand new top of the line core i7. It has 8 cores, but its really not any faster than the 5 yr old computer it replaced.VoteObama012: Nice post GoAwayObama! I completely agree with you. The pc is now a commodity like a tv, toaster, or microwave. -
Gems from our comments section
Fortune writer Duff McDonald: It seems the way to make money on HP (HPQ) is to wait for it to do something stupid, give them five years or so to be able to gracefully reverse course, and buy in anticipation of the eventual announcement. (Let's not even get into the whole scandal of Mark Hurd and the pretty PR woman that got him booted from HP. We've never really gotten to the bottom of that one, have we?)Fortune reader McArthur: What part of "Corporate pillow geisha catches eye of CEO who bangs voucher system in passionate pursuit" did you find confusing? -
Jumping off a tall building is flying, so long as the non standard metric of gravity is excluded. You go Groupon! Yay!! 
— CNNMoney reader mican12001, on Groupon’s very special accounting
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What a ridiculous premise! Because no system is 100% secure (true), there’s no such thing as cyber security. That’s like saying that because Taco Bell meat is only 35% meat, there’s no such thing as meat.
— n8ron, in perhaps the greatest comment ever, on my story “Online security doesn’t exist.” -David
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Facebook was not the first social network, nor will be the last. Before FB, it was MySpace, and before that, Friendster. It will not be in the least surprising to me when people leave Facebook — that’s the nature of the game. The party moves.
— Reader IanA1, on our story about what college students think of Google+
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When I was a kid our parents didn’t swear at us…they just stuck our heads in the gas range until we got a little groggy. I see nothing wrong with…with…what the heck are we talking about any how!
— CNNMoney commenter VekTorVik, on Samuel L. Jackson’s narration of “Go the F**k to Sleep.” The free audiobook version of the brash pseudo-children’s bedtime story garnered 160,000 downloads in 48 hours. -JP
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Thanks to Apple, you got a nice cheap Kindle. It used to cost $499, until the iPad came out.
— CNNMoney commenter veggiedude, in response to another reader who said she’d never give up her Kindle in favor of the iPad. Read more about the Apple vs. Kindle showdown coming June 30 (thanks to new App Store rules) here.
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It’s like the door was wide open with a cookie and milk tray out with a piece of paper that asks to please not take the jewelry laying on the counter. Seriously, a simple SQL statement yielded all of this data that was unencrypted? Why doesn’t Sony just avoid the embarrassment by publishing all of their customer data themselves?
— CNNMoney commenter conic123 on the purported Lulz Security hack of 1 million Sony accounts
