Listen to the TAL followup story. He admitted, eventually, that he lied. Except that he seems to be physically incapable of saying the word "lie," instead trying to weave a web of bullshit about there being different levels of truth, and that his version was (to paraphrase) "stage true" vs. "true in the traditional sense." Ira Flatow even told him that that was not a normal viewpoint when it comes to whether something is true or not, and he just hemmed and hawed. If that's not the definition of a pathological liar, I don't know what is.

"At that point, we should've killed the story," says Ira Glass, Executive Producer and Host of This
American Life. "But other things Daisey told us about Apple's operations in China checked out, and we
saw no reason to doubt him. We didn't think that he was lying to us and to audiences about the details of his
story. That was a mistake."

That sounds like, "We got it wrong," to me.

Minimum requirements: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/295.20/README/minimumrequirements.html

[sorry for the poor formatting]
Software Element Supported versions Check With...
Linux kernel 2.4.7 and newer cat /proc/version
XFree86* 4.0.1 and newer XFree86 -version
X.Org* 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 Xorg -version
Kernel modutils 2.1.121 and newer insmod --version
glibc 2.0 ls /lib/libc.so.* > 6
* It is only required that you have one of XFree86 or X.Org, not both. Sometimes very recent versions are not supported immediately following release, but we aim to support all new versions as soon as possible.

binutils 2.9.5 size --version
GNU make 3.77 make --version
gcc 2.91.66 gcc --version

Really, just don't do it, please!

DisplayPort can be converted to HDMI or single-link DVI with a cheap, passive adapter.
You can also convert it to VGA or dual-link DVI using active adapters (they show up to the computer as DisplayPort devices).

The name of the OS is "Windows Phone 7", so this is a "Windows Phone 7 phone", not a "Windows 7 phone". This is is the sort of dumb naming that leads to things like, "Plug your monitor into the DisplayPort port," or "point your web browser at http://slashdot.org/".

Part of it is that it's hard to actually make anything using in-game redstone wiring, in the same way that it would be tricky but nerdily rewarding to make a 16-bit ALU using discrete transistors and wires on a breadboard. It also requires digging around in interesting and often surprising environments to actually *get* the redstone to make this stuff, so it's makes a good time sink for addictive personalities. It's pretty different from writing a mod for a game in some scripting language.

That forces the DNS resolution itself to only go over IPv6. I think what you want is host -t AAAA slashdot.org.

Safari, for example, had a bug until recently that caused page loads to fail if the site has an IPv6 address but the client doesn't have connectivity. In addition, there are a bunch of autoconfigured tunnel technologies that can cause problems. See, for example, APNIC's chief scientist's report on Teredo: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html

> same websites at a slower speed (due to the tunnel)

I have a Hurricane Electric tunnel set up, and this is actually not always the case:

--- www.facebook.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9011ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 36.170/38.304/39.851/1.103 ms

--- www.v6.facebook.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 16.583/18.888/25.474/2.335 ms

That IPv6 route includes a hacky wifi hop that the IPv4 one doesn't, and it's *still* better.

It's a production unit, but people at the conference don't actually get them for another month.

Its display functionality is totally inadequate.