he said 'the community', not nokia official statements, so the FUD's the community's rather than his
FWIW the rumour appears to be that the n900 is to be discontinued and replaced by a maemo 6 device with capacitive multitouch and no slideout keyboard--so even if the FUD has some substance, you could do worse than grab the n900 while you can

With software patents there is no such thing as free from patent risk. Both mepg2 and h264 have had litigation threats......

Except the problem is how do you keep the users from redistrubting the code that has how to decode a h264 file? and the users they give it to, and so on? Good luck getting a license from MPEG-LA that grants everyone a license to use it. Also, is Chrome(not chromium) available for linux distros other than debian/ubuntu/redhat/SUSE? slackware? gentoo? LFS? and host of others, see distro watch, because Chromium does not have support for the html5/h264 youtube.

Ironically enough: ALL of those will be using ffmpeg. They will just dress it
up differently can call it by a different name. But yeah, using the mime and
plug-in interface that has existed in mozilla since the beginning of time does
seem an obvious way to approach this "problem".

Nonsense. Firefox can use any codec that is already installed on the user's system. It's only because they have decided that they should try to force Theora on people that they are rejecting that solution.

So buy a second hand phone on ebay, unlock it and stick a PAYG SIM in it (or whatever contract works for you)...

And push the license fees down to the users? Is that what you really want?

getting mad, are we? personal attacks are a sign of desperation from people who have difficulties articulating their thoughts. i suppose it's clear why you hid your name now.

now back to the topic. the scholarly debate is over whether the famine was intentional or not. that in turn determines whether it was genocide at all. this i got from the wikipedia link you gave me, so i hope you can see the irony in the fact that you -- as the kids say -- pwnt yourself.

as i said before, lul

as pointed out in a couple of places above, without root access you may still be able to edit your own user prefs for spamassassin, either by editing the /.spamassassin/user_prefs file, or through cpanel dpending on your provider's setup--in the configure options (where you can set required_score for example) you add the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX rule to one of the 'score' boxes with a value of 0--but note that this disables the rule entirely--i did it last night and my inbox was full of spam this morning, currently trying to figure out a +ve value/required_score combination that'll minimize the false +ve risk but still keep the spam down--by default the rule has a score of 3.4 i think, so with a threshold of 5 it might be ok to crank it back a little rather than zero it--you might still get some false +ves tho, i've disabled auto-delete meantime

depends--i have a cheap n cheerful shared hosting account with the same issue, but i do have cpanel access which allows me to override the score for any rule--check out the last link in the summary basically if you have access to local config files (even through a frontend like cpanel) you can do it without root access

The concept of an unfair advantage is deeply problematic. Why don't we ban athletes who eat healthily, or train hard? Or who were born with a great physique? If one of the runners in a race was a smoker, why not ban all the non-smokers from racing against him? How about athletes with money to burn on fancy therapies and sport scientists to monitor their every move? There's no such thing as a level playing field. We make all these artificial distinctions (like not having women compete against men) to try and ensure there is, but we're kidding ourselves. It's hard to see how we might draw a clear line between any of these things and e.g. letting one of the 'runners' use a bike. There may be a case for saying as long as you're actually *running*, anything goes. The alternative would just be *anything* goes - here's the start, here's the finish, first to cross the line wins - like Wacky Races. Before you laugh, think about the competetive advantage being smart gives you in many sporting situations. Is that unfair? If we want the purest form of competition, then giving people's ingenuity and dedication free rein seems to makes sense. Survival of the fittest is a question of environmental adaptiveness, after all. And it wouldn't half be fun to watch.