Normally GPS issues that people face aren't problems with the GPS but rather with the mapping data used. The GPS is giving good data, but the maps are out of date or incorrect and lead you the wrong way. Notable exceptions to this would be in places like New York, where the large buildings cause multipath issues and the GPS module doesn't have good data.

I agree a PIN system that is all numbers has significant problems. (neither I or my wife use the PIN on our phones, but I enabled it to see how android dealt with repeated attemps.) http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/ gets to the problem that people are bad at picking secure PINs (especially a 4-digit PIN.) This device has value however because a great many people who will enable a PIN will choose a 4 digit PIN.

Both my nexus 4 and my wife's note 2 lock me out for 30 seconds after 5 incorrect guesses. After the time out I am free to make 5 more guesses before I hit another 30 second delay. So android users who use PINs to lock their phone do seem to be vulnerable to this brute-force attack. Seems easy enough for google to fix, double the timeout each time, maybe even have the option of having the phone email you with its location and a time stamp after 15 incorrect guesses.

While I agree XBMC is the way to go, Plex should be in the conversation, and in some cases might be a better fit than XBMC. Support for iOS, Android, and Roku. With reasonably good scrappers, and a free service to essentially do DDNS for remote viewing, it is a quality product that is competitive with XBMC

not by default but google apps for business does have the ability: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/benefits.html [Stay connected from anywhere>On your Android] google apps I would say is comparable to iCloud

He doesn't often have to run against another republican in the primaries. In most places in Texas the primary is the real election. He was born in the general area of his district and has lived in it most of his life, other republicans that have political aspirations have other low hanging fruit that they can pick from. I have the pleasure of voting against his re-election every 2 years.

my son is almost 4 and he sounds a lot like your son. I was never a big comic book reader, but I was disappointed when I went to a local comic book store that there was almost nothing I would let him read right now. We did however find a series of short storied at barns an noble all about super heroes. The web site on the back is marvelkids.com I know that DC comics also has a similar series because we have some batman books upstairs. He loves them and I read him at least one story from the series each day. The stories are not episodic like most comic books.

That is part of the beauty of arduino, it is geared towards getting involved with things like micros but you don't have to start off fully understanding concepts that aren't normally taught until first and second year of an EE degree. Once you get the hang of programming and understand what can be done with a micro the arduino can be programmed in C or ASM. It is ideally suited to teach kids programming and get the interested in "REAL" programming. To quote from the arduino homepage: "Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments." It isn't meant to be a serious hardware design platform. It is a great prototyping tool and tool for introducing popular to programming and the world of micros. When I was doing my undergrad in EE I used an arduino to prototype what I wanted to do and moved on to an MPS430 for the real thing (stereoscopic vision for a robotic platform.)

I second Lego Mindstorms (with RobotC) that has been mentioned earlier, or if that is a bit too pricey look into an arduino. There is nothing quite like doing something in the real world with your computer program to make programming more fun.

I always learned the Brian Regan rule: ""I before E, except after C, and when sounded as A as in neighbor and weight, and weekends, and holidays, and all throughout May, because you'll always be wrong no matter what you say."

http://www.netflix.com/FAQ?p_faqid=2902 they give you up to 4 streams depending on your plan

from what I have read on netflix they allow the number of streams equal to the number of DVDs you pay for. Not sure what they have done for the streaming only plan.

To go along with this, YaST package management was horrifically slow near the end of the 10.X series. With all the work done on zypper, package management has improved a ton. Their is still work to be done, but it isn't something that is too slow to use like it once was.