http://www.rogers.com/web/link/hispeedBrowseFlowDefaultPlans

"Up to 150 Mbps download speed available in select areas
Up to 10 Mbps upload speed available in select areas
250 GB monthly usage allowance
9 Emails and a suite of options

$122.99 per month"

(Note: this indeed appears to be for regular (wired) internet access, not mobile broadband)

So yes, it would probably take longer than 24 hours to use this up, but a 250gb limit is ridiculous for your fastest and most expensive package. In the UK, ISPs such as Sky or BT provide unthrottled access for c. £25 + £15 line rental per month; you can easily download more than 250gb using one of those puny 20Mbit ADSL connections (which in reality probably means

It's not water or oxygen, but it does enable a lot of cool things, and there's no reason for it to be so expensive compared to other Western nations.

I'd love to join, but I just committed to go out for dinner with the Mrs on Saturday (under circumstances that mean I really can't cancel...). Let me know how it goes!

There's trouble (a parking ticket with a $100 fine) and then there's trouble

The burden of proof for the latter (or any other life-ruining penalty) should be much higher. This is not proportionate, even if it is proven that she did it herself.

Blaming her for negligence doesn't make sense. IANAL, but poor / no security (e.g. a failure to encrypt an internet connection or encrypting it with WEP, leaving a car unlocked that is subsequently used to commit a crime etc.) is not an act of negligence that should result in penalties such as these in any rational legal system.

If anyone disagrees, can they please represent me against Sony for exposing my credit card details (as part of the PSN hack)?

No problem - good luck!

While Taco Cowboy's arguments about the horrible stuff they feed animals are important to note, it's also important to note that non-organic agriculture involves using fertilizers and pesticides that pollute the environment, killing the organisms that naturally regenerate the fertility of the soil, as well as processes that lead to desertification, algal bloom and other disruptions to natural ecosystems.

So in fact many well-informed people who eat organic food, do so to preserve the environment, and consider non-organic agriculture to be the "Hummer" of the farming world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_agriculture

It looks like the Symbol 8146's chip is based on an Intel StrongArm architecture. It also looks like Linux has been ported to this architecture before, specifically:
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?id=10&issue=58
and more helpfully:
http://www.mbari.org/education/internship/02interns/02papers/jelena.pdf


Having said that, it looks like gentoo linux might be your best bet for getting linux on there given that it already supports StrongArm:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mobile-81/help-me-find-any-active-unix-distro-compatible-with-strongarm-sa-1110-armv4-886708/

Also you might want to look at NetBSD for the same reason:
http://www3.fr.netbsd.org/ports/hpcarm/
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/01/02/21/1450234/netbsd-on-strongarm-handhelds

For Gentoo, your best bet would be to start asking questions in a porting forum
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-32.html?sid=45f0bbd4289a2e5cb96f1e80e7b1e14b

For NetBSD, check out the hpcarm mailing lists:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hpcarm/thread1.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-ports/tindex.html


8100 series specs:
CPU: Intel StrongArm 1110 @ 206MHz
Operating Platform: Microsoft® Pocket PC
Memory (RAM/ROM): 32 MB/32 MB
Application Development: Fully compatible with Microsoft SDK for Pocket PCs; Symbol SDK available to support bar code scanning
Display: 1/4 VGA (320 x 240 portrait) with16-level grayscale
Communications: IrDA 1.1; RS-232

Source: http://www.barcodesinc.com/pdf/Symbol/pdt8100.pdf

Companies should just do kickstarter drives for linux ports of their games!

Jeeze - 500 Euro note then...

In case you're interested (I was) - "The most valuable banknotes in current circulation are:
10,000 Singapore Dollar note (US$7,900)
1,000 Swiss Franc note (US$1,000)
1,000 Singapore Dollar note (US$790)
500 Euro note (US$610)"

Source - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Highest_value_banknote_in_current_general_circulation_in_the_world#ixzz20txaZw4t

Note: figures are re-converted at today's rates, rounded to 2 significant figures

It did for music

iTunes Store and DRM-free music: What you need to know

I'm not shocked or disgusted, but I am rather excited. I have the Transformer, and its one big shortcoming for me is the lack of 3G. A high-end LTE version sounds awesome. Number of cores be damned.

Next on my wishlist: better support for Office documents and shared calendars

Does this mean I don't get to be classified as a "bleeding-edge technophile"?

"technology transfer without payment of licenses or such. We like free as in freedom, thank you very much..."

Sounds as if you like free as in beer too...