>>I wouldn't describe many of the founding fathers as particularly religious.

Many of the founders disagreed with you.

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
--Patrick Henry - The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p. iii.

"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God."

--John Adams wrote this on June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event."
--Thomas Jefferson - Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.

These quotes and lots more are found here http://christianity.about.com/od/independenceday/a/foundingfathers.htm

The link to the spec appears to be http://www.unqlspec.org/ not http://wwww.unqlspec.org/ as shown in the article, which appears to just a site about couchbase.

Not quite as integrated but you could get a Picasa app. http://www.uvento.com/mypics Picasa links to G+.

Sell an android 3.0 tablet wifi-only tablet for around $400 and I'll buy one. Not until then. Notion ink almost did that with an Android 3.0 like OS but doesn't seem to be able to handle even a small number of customers. But once the android 3.0 source is out, I assume there will be a ton of cheap competitors and then the game will change.

Fun video after annoying commercial.

http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-make-giant-soap-bubbles-10316

Let your kids help you mix the ingredients together. Might cost $20-$30 but I'm sure you and the kids will have lots of fun.

No this feature always came with android 2.2 but most reviews didn't cover it for some reason.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2-highlights.html

I wonder what percentage of android users even know they are using an Android phone? Verizon on the other hand did a great job with the Droid name, to the point I have to describe to my friends that other networks also have "Droids". Google needs to start doing better maybe something fun like working with manufacturers to ship some android green earbuds with every phone and do some Apple spoof commercials with silhouettes of the users dancing.

>>Even my HTC Hero (running Android 1.5) has multitouch built into the basic system apps like the browser and the gallery.
>>The summary should indicate that no other phones have previously had multitouch built into the system apps that Google ships with the stock OS.

If it came with a browser as a basic system app which supported multi-touch but none of the Google apps support it, what browser did it come with? (I would have thought stock chrome or chromimum).

Thanks for the info. I found a link the feature.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/1.6_r1/index.html#overview

No the battle cry was that you could install any userland app you wanted without asking anyone's permission like Apple's app store but that app would still need to conform to the android API for apps, which AFAIK is java like and doesn't give the app any low level access. The fact that it runs on Linux is near irrelevant to users (since they don't give you or apps native access) but I suppose it would make it easier to port the whole OS to new hardware platforms.

Interesting ... Actually I didn't forget the rest - it was added since I submitted my post. But at further inspection it was and still is in a section called "Obsolete Property Reference" so it sounds as if it is clarification of Mozilla's plans not necessarily a change.

Thank you for noticing, otherwise I would have missed it.

I can't comment on MS's plugin because I don't know how it works, but Firefox does support extensions which are not displayed to the user. If they are installed in locations besides the profile directory (ie are not a normal extension a user chooses to install). I don't think Mozilla's policy is quite that clear cut about when you should or shouldn't make something viewable by the user.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Install_Manifests#hidden

"hidden

Firefox 1.0 - 3.5 A boolean value that when true makes the add-on not show up in the add-ons list, provided the add-on is installed in a restricted access area (so it does not work for add-ons installed in the profile). This is for bundling integration hooks to larger applications where having an entry in the Extensions list does not make sense."

Yep

"On January 29, 2007, Adobe announced its intent to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). During 2007 and into early 2008 that intent was turned into a reality. ISO published the approved ISO 32000-1 standard based upon PDF 1.7 in July 2008. ISO will also produce future versions of the PDF Specification."

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html

except for the "extra" features adobe added and documented since the release of the standard.

This looks like its going to be a great app by the fedora folks for centrally controlling and managing machines and users.

http://freeipa.org/page/Main_Page

Summary from the page included below.

FreeIPA (so far) is an integrated solution combining

        * Linux (currently Fedora)
        * Fedora Directory Server
        * MIT Kerberos
        * NTP
        * DNS
        * Web and commandline provisioning and administration tools

Version 1 will focus on

        * Allowing an administrator to quickly install, setup, and administer one or more IPA servers for centralized authentication and user identity management.

Version 2 will focus on

        * Adding DNS and Certificate Authority to the IPA core
        * Allowing an admin to join a machine to an IPA realm
        * Providing kerberos principal and cert to the joined machine
        * Providing service keytabs and service certificates to services
        * Managing the keytabs and certificates once provided
        * Plug-in architecture for IPA extensibility. freeRADIUS as a first plugin.
        * IPA Client code for managing authentication, authorization, caching, connection
        * Policy. Centrally managed sudoers/netgroups, SELinux role based access
        * Audit. Centrally collected audit logs from IPA servers and from IPA clients

My point wasn't that we shouldn't fund it to some level but that it has nothing to do with a crisis stimulus package. It should introduced as a separate bill so it can be debated on its own merit, not rushed through because of an unrelated crisis.