How exactly is it supposed to get better for consumers if the government forces companies to give everything they have to a competitor in order to get permission to buy another company?
Companies will stop spending on R&D because they will need to give all their research away for free if they want to buy another company.

Actually, the iPad can not be charged off a standard USB port while it is powered on. It draws 1.5 amps (more than the .5 amps of USB 2.0).
There are USB ports that will charge the iPad (if they support the Battery Charging v1.1 spec), but having those on a device is rare.

The iPad can charge slowly when it is asleep from a standard USB 2.0 port if there is nothing else drawing power.

Will this new system make it into the Slashcode repository (or something new maybe)?
Slashcode.com and the sourceforge git repository have not been updated since 2009. Will Slashdot no longer be open-source?

I know of one laptop manufacturer that does not require Windows: http://www.avadirect.com/
Their problem is supply chain: They frequently do not have certain components in stock (matte displays in particular). If you are looking for something they have in stock, then I highly recommend them. You can customize (on a laptop remember, so there are chasis limits) all the way down to the thermal grease on the processor.
I do build my own desktops and servers.

The judgment could open the way for PC buyers elsewhere in Europe to obtain refunds for bundled software they don't want

Does this say anything for buyers outside Europe? I bought a Lenovo laptop and tried to get them to refund the Windows license I was not planning to use and they said they can't do that.

But CDMA has at least one major advantage: When your phone rings, it does not destroy any recordings being made in the same room (the way a GSM cell phone does).

The Symantec FaceBook post answers that:
The source code is from two different products, one four years old, one five years old. One of them is discontinued.
https://www.facebook.com/Symantec/posts/10150465997682876

InMotionHosting offers tons of disk space for a very low price.
I and other people who used to use them highly do not recommend them
Start with these : http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/09/mass-compromise-at-inmotionhosting-com.html
http://thehackernews.com/2011/09/inmotion-hosting-server-and-trinity-fm.html

They messed up the cleanup, damaging sites that had already cleaned up by themselves.

Last but not least: http://www.windows8update.com/2011/11/17/top-10-reasons-that-i-dont-use-inmotion-hosting-for-my-website-and-business/

Short of blowing it up and starting fresh, this is the best way. Kidding aside, I was in the same situation as you several years ago.
We happened to have Sharepoint already installed (as part of SBS2008), so we started using its Wiki feature for our documentation.
We use its lists feature to keep track of license keys and firewall settings (not in the same list of course).
Just make as comprehensive a list as possible.

As this xkcd does a great job of explaining.

The difference is in where you flip. In the Towers of Hanoi, you do not flip the whole stack, you can only move the pieces one at a time between poles.
For the pancake problem, you only have one pole and you flip as many as you want at once.
Good explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting

Great idea. Submit your regex back so that everyone can use it.
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban

Sorry, accidentally hit AC. If you don't mind, reply to this one so I get email notification.

This is not just about non-profits, it is about summer camps, boy scout troops, bake sales, high-school yearbooks, freelance artists and software developers, and personal gifts to family members half way around the world. This is about transparency.

The reason I hate PayPal is that there is no transparency or even apparent logic to account freezes. I have worked with a number of non-profit organizations and small businesses that have had their PayPal accounts' frozen for reasons that were never explained. Then when we supplied the requested documentation, it was rejected with no apparent reason.
Discover Card recently teamed up with PayPal to allow sending money between people, but it fails randomly with no errors and even Discover Card's tech support has no idea what is wrong. (It turns out that the problem was that within that week, PayPal had suspended personal payments to that country with no reason given.)

I am generally opposed to government regulation of business, but if PayPal wants to act like a bank by holding on to people's money, it should be regulated like a bank.
The only reason I continue to use PayPal is that there is no comparable alternative. If there was, I would stop using PayPal.