How do you mount an encrypted disk image on Android? And what if it's updated through Dropbox?

What the hell? Are you a naturist or something? I wipe my Galaxy S on my pants 98% of the time. I've got no problem finding a suitable wiping surface - I've yet to find a fabric that scratches the screen. Every once in a very long while (once a month?), I'll clean the screen with something that solves grease. Keeping your device clean is really no problem.

Why do we are about these things? We'll just outsource to the fine peoples of India and China!

Lotsa people think the tablet could replace most latops. See what most people do with their laptops: Watching movies, storing pictures from their cameras and mobiles, browsing the web, online banking. That's pretty much it. Most of that stuff is adequately handled by 10" tablet with an optional keyboard + stand. Just wait 'till the android tablets start attacking the Apple juggernaut. You'll see less margins on the hardware and more innovation in software - from both parties.

I'll bet the laptop will become a niche/work product at some point.

Agreed. "Tsunami" is a Japanese word. I'm flabbergasted at the poor tsunami resistance. C'mon, having the backup solution taken out by the same incident that caused the primary failure?! Also, it's discomforting that they don't appear to run on their diesel aggregates on a regular basis. Redundancy is only redundancy if you dare pull the plug. So, I hope the nuclear industry is scrambling to test their redundancy solutions etc. And they must dare think of the unthinkable: A F5 twister, a Cat 5 hurricane, a once-500-years earthquake, a 747.

Nuclear power safety is difficult but manageable.

Sony screwed themselves and their customers when they removed the OtherOS feature. Before that, they did not force a downgrade of the actual console you bought (though they removed functionality in later hardware revisions, you got what you paid for). When they forced a removal of a functionality that was important to many buyers, they pissed off a lot of knowledgeable folks who were enjoying their Linux on Cell experience. It certainly did not take long before the entire system was compromised.

No sympathy for Sony.

It's possible to revert to the old system. Bliss!

On my Mac (the horror! the horror!) I can log on, purchase and download the games that are released for Mac. I can even play them.

The trick is that once the Steam client has been ported, each individual game developer chooses whether to invest money in porting their awesome creation to OSX.

If Valve ported Steam to Linux, that would open a similar calculation for the developer. It would also mean that indie developers could develop on the Linux stack and sell their games to those who run Linux. Given careful selection of libraries, it's possible to run the same code on Linux, OSX and Windows. It would be sweet. But it depends on whether Valve thinks there would be enough money in the Linux market to pay for the development of a Linux client.

Many of these ideas are actually apps that you are free to implement yourself. And this profit from. If you patent them, you might even make a few more bucks when MS decide the ideas are good enough to be implemented in the base OS.

This one looks like the lion king, yo!

Indeed. HFT takes money from investors who do their homework. We (citizens, corporations, gov't) need to accept that the world won't end tomorrow, so we must ensure our short-term solutions are not going to f*ck us over in the future. The debt bubble is a good example: It was just so darned comfortable to enjoy the easy growth that came from accepting ever more debt and relaxing risk management practices. There were plenty of risks, but who listens to naysayers when we're in a party mood? And HFT is another such example: It's very, very profitable, but also an obstacle to making investment less short-term and more focused on fundamentals.

Say wut?

Social media enables mass communication outside government control - IFF there is a sufficient number of people who knows how to circumvent government censorship then the government loses control of information. Once that control is gone, a large number of smart people are able to communicate. In a censored country, you are stuck with whoever you can physically talk to. Once you breach the communication barriers, these people are free to exchange thoughts and maybe plan and execute a revolution. Or at least a series of demonstrations that forces the gov't to change its position.

Social media is a revolution enabler.

Nah. The first movie spilled all the beans. The universe was really only compelling and interesting (to me) in the first movie. After that, no amount of SFX can cover up a mediocre story. That's also why I'm doubtful regarding movie 4 and 5.

Our apps are already watching us beyond what we've authorized. How is that not malware?