A prime example of why studios think you shouldn't get to sell the games you bought, none of the money is going to the studio, which makes them very sad.

You have something to hide? You must be a terrorist. But think about the monies you can save, what better incentive is there people?

Luckily most will participate to earn a few bucks, making them drive safer and as a net effect the road a safer place to be?

But really, what privacy concern is there in acceleration data?

"Sometimes...."

Indeed sometimes. That sometimes you have to act will show abnormal in the data. If that sometimes becomes often and thus a pattern, either change your route (or timing) to a safer one or be come a better driver by anticipating more if you thing those anomalies in the data weren't your fault in the first place.

Please do.

I didn't to have the Ericsson/HTC problems you describe. I used my T39 till the battery went dead (about 5 years), it was a useful phone.

I used my HTC G1/Dream 2 years until it ran out of memory, it was a greate phone till it couldn't keep up with the new Android releases memory requirements. You could upgrade (CM) but low memory resulted in swapping which killed the battery in a day.

Switched to a HTC G2/Desire Z, which got a recent bugfixes. The battery is a bit disappointing though, 1.5 years in service it started to lose charge, but replacing it with an unofficial 1800mAh and I can go without charging for 2 days easily. Haven't heard any of the other $Desire users complain so far.

But I'm not sure if the next phone will be a HTC, it seems they will not be making ones with keyboards. Motorola maybe, but the G2 will be running for at least a year with current Android version. Haven't felt the need to upgrade to a 4.x release so far, 384Mb might not be enough to keep a comfortable charged battery.

Thanks for the link, it thought it was perl code before your hint.

The last time I tried the problem was in the flash players/plugin making direct connections to content by ignoring the http_proxy settings of the browser. Setting the default route to the VPN made it work, long story short: proxy settings in browser might not be enough.

Speed is reasonable these days with 80211n, it comes close to 100Mbps. But the latency is still horrible compared to wired.

ACTA will be ratified in some form because it will be resubmitted again and again till the lobbyiest succeed. This happened before with the EU constitution, it will happen with ACTA and it will happen in the future for many more treaties/laws.

Last month the Dutch "ad regulation commission" forbade Apple to make invulnerability claims:
https://www.reclamecode.nl/webuitspraak.asp?ID=76881&acCode (in dutch offcourse, use your favorite translation engine).
The conclusion of the commission is that no software can guarantee immunity and asked Apple to prove their claims. Apple didn't (unclear if they even tried). So the commission ruled in favor or the complainer, thus banning Apple from making these false claims. It looks they changed this worldwide to prevent any further disputes/claims.

I've seen spikes in traffic coming from eastern european countries and Turkey a couple of years ago. Using the recent iptables module I limit traffic to ntp:
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp --dport 123 -m recent --name ntp --set
iptables -A INPUT -m recent --name ntp --update --seconds 30 --hitcount 6 -j DROP
And the abuse eventually stopped.

An USB GPS means no Pulse Per Second (actually 1000ms). The PPS fires an interrupt on the serial port, which should result in an interrupt every 1000ms accurate within 100us.

The lack of PPS will result in a ntpd with lots of jitter, my experience is about +/- 150ms but this depends heavily on actual USB usage and the GPS device itself. This is unsuitable for a low stratum ntpserver IMHO, so don't use it as the only timesource if you want to participate in the pool unless you advertise it as some high stratum source (I would guess 5-10).

So for 3 phones you have to pay:
$40: 1st phone (smart one)
$30: 2nd phone (basic!)
$30: 3rd phone (basic?)
$50: 1GB
===+
$150 for 1GB shared data or $50/month for 333MB if shared evenly. WTF is Verizon thinking!

In other news I read Lenovo becoming an access provide:
http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1602
In NL the prices would be 2GB for 35EUR/month or 5GB for 50EUR/month.
I thought that these prices were to expensive already.

Nope, most run linux over here (TV, settopbox, routers, WAPs, DECT basestation, mobile phone). Maybe the washer, microwave or SIP phone are running a *BSD.

"Show me evidence of a glitchy driver causing a loud squealing noise, the wireless chipset to stop working, and horizontal lines on the display."

AAHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh, the memories, they are back after I tried so hard to forget the S3 Virge driver:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/xf-xpert/msg05481.html

Wireless chips that stop working, I have seen people complaining about some Intel and Broadcom chipsets, fairly recent. I used to have some kind of BCM (4328 IIRC) with ndiswrapper, occasionaly stopped working (once 1 a month or 2).
http://linux.bigresource.com/Ubuntu-Networking-Wireless-connection-stops-working-randomly--AWdGAzaK2.html