1.9L TD is okay with a manual transmission, not so much with an automatic, probably. Since the automakers have deemed that Americans won't buy cars without automatic transmission, and wonderfully socially-conscious insurance companies (hi there, Flo!) are charging more for manual-equipped vehicles, this isn't going to happen.

Furthermore, US safety standards are more stringent than EU ones. It's very difficult to sell a vehicle under around 3200lbs in the US these days -- won't meet crash standards.

Then they'd have needed them there in 1994. Quite a few of the infringement claims stem from NeXTstep.

This isn't about Linux. It's about Google. Google could be using a closed-source kernel, and Apple would still be suing them, with Microsoft quietly cheering.

Cheq my turbo Diesel with nawssss!!!

Verizon. Droid. Sour grapes for Verizon telling them to GTFO when Apple pitched the iPhone to them first.

If Apple succeeds in bloodying HTC's nose, *then* they'll start going after the bigger boys like Google.

That's the point. Get a judgement against HTC, hit Motorola, then Google, using the judgement as leverage.

I also halfway wonder if some of this is at the behest of AT&T.

Maybe Apple should pay Nokia's patent royalties first before they go bullying others?

Is that still in litigation?

Too bad the mobile phone industry is a small one, everyone of the existing players cross-license between each one and ass behaving Apple is in serious trouble if the other companies stop licensing their technology.

This isn't aimed at HTC; it's aimed at Google. Don't kid yourself. To whom, is Google paying license fees?

I actually misread the headline as "PC-DOS," which would, sorta be from Microsoft.....maybe IBM was returning to the numbered releases. :-)

WTKR had it last night at 11, but were kinda sketchy on details. Big emphasis on NO CITIZEN OR EMPLOYEE DATA WAS AFFECTED.

I live in Norfolk; let's just say that the best and brightest aren't working in IT for local governments. Defense companies pay a lot better.

When I worked for another local city, they were still running an ancient 16-bit version of Netware (would have been like 2002).

I understand yours....sarcasm was mine for the green alchemy jobs push so talked about in Washington these days. Corn Ethanol is a non-starter. Wind energy can't provide enough; yes, it can supplement, but not be a primary source. The prescribed solution for lighting, CFLs, are rapidly being overtaken by white LEDs developed by private sources. When I was in Sam's Club last week, there were all sorts of LED arrays on sale for just a few bucks more than the comparable CFLs.

Nuclear energy works. 2nd-generation hybrids (direct electric drive, with supplemental generator backup, like the Chevy Volt) will most likely work. Little of the other stuff does work, yet it's being touted as a revolutionary job-creator. Good luck with that.

As opposed to "green" technologies that are difficult, and don't work....? This is one of the few good things Obama's gotten behind. At the same time, the regulatory red tape instituted over the last 50 years guarantee that none of this work will be completed by the time re-election rolls around.

You can spend more money on an even faster system for myth. But its just money down the drain, unless you're doing something totally exotic with high def, or trying to do more than five things at once like Yeechang, or attempting to do dual simultaneous displays, or trying to run a backend on the frontend machine, etc.

Pretty much true. I have a frontend-only host that does fine with MythTV high-def (1080i OTA). Where it falls hard is playing flash. YouTube HD stuff is passable, but Hulu is an exercise in futility.

Was trying to RTFA, but it appears to be slashdotted. First page doesn't tell much. :-(

Was considering moving to a Conroe-based CPU replacement, hoping that would fix the problems. Might be worth the ~$50 they're running now. Probably would run cooler, at least.

Let me guess....you do not have, and have never had a girlfriend.

Anyway, this talk at Shmoocon opened my eyes quite a bit. Users jailbreak their iPhones for whatever reason, then leave them flagging insecure on the network. While AT&T have taken steps to mitigate some of the vulnerabilities introduced by n00bs pwning their iphonez, it's still not 100%.

Think your cable company would still let you buy their on-demand shiat if you'd rooted your cable box? How about Windows Update and Microsoft?

It's not like Android is really that open a platform, and it wouldn't surprise me if other carriers start doing similar things to rooted Android devices.

The iPhone is a wonderful device that works fine for 90% of the users, just as it's supposed to. This feigned outrage at Apple is disgusting.

Golden parachutes aren't a Republican phenomena, and the Silicon Valley tech companies aren't exactly fertile ground for the GOP as far as fundraising goes.

Nor is rewarding mediocrity limited to the upper-echelons of society (see: Detroit).

What the author did get right is that the boards of directors make these decisions. In companies where a scant few hold lots of sway, they look out for themselves instead of the working minions. Think Carl Ichan ever got a raw deal on a company he came in and dismantled?

The fixes are simple, but neither political party has the political will to do it. The tax reforms in 1986 allowed most of this, and it benefits wealthy interests (read: donors) on both sides of the aisle. Think Bear Stearns was a high-time GOP operation? How about Fannie and Freddie?

1. Tax stock options as regular compensation, taxed at normal income tax rates. Tax it at the stock's full price on the day the option is exercised. If the option is never exercised, fine. The executive doesn't pay the tax.
2. Place a time limit on option execution.
3. Tax fringe benefits as compensation (hello, "Cadillac" health plans).
4. Encourage firms to hire executives on fixed-term contracts with fixed compensation. Stop making compensation based on stock price performance.

But it'll never happen. And, while I'm glad to see that they're taking notice, the stupid from dKos burns. It burns a lot.

The problem with the moon missions is that the big defense corporations running the US ... just can't justify such large profits with moon missions. The population (or its politicians) are much less willing to fund if there is no fear factor.

I call BS, to an extent. The thing about moon missions is that it's not a high-volume, medium-skill production, unlike, say The C-17. If space travel was well-refined, and high volume, the story might be different. Instead, Congress is pointing funding at programs that keep people in their districts employed, for better or for worse. And that's despite what the "evil" Department of Defense, and President ask for.