Electric, gas or hybrid, any car fully submerged in salt water is heading to the scrap yard. Why pick on Fiskar because it's a hybrid?

Apple's dug themselves into a hole in this one. They have an app that suffers from feature creep and is a resource hog. The only way to fix both issues is a complete code rewrite and interface redesign. Best case they will successful in both areas, but people will still complain that they don't like the new UI. Worse case, they just pull a "Final Cut Pro X" and still have a memory/CPU hog that does less than before. Hopefully they chose the former, and are just taking their time to polish it up.

This tech is useful in everything from game controllers to rockets. John Carmack was just talking about he re-used his Armidello rocket code in head tracking controller software. I hope this also trickles down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk

Every heard of 2880×1800 retina displays? Like to play your games at 60FPS? Well, as someone rocking one on a 15" monitor with a mid-low end GPU, I frequently run into this issue under Linux. And let me tell you the current system is terrible. Mac OS can do it, Windows can do it, If Linux wants to get competitive, they need to fix this issue. Just a few days ago, I fired up Tux Racer for a friend to play. I think I had to reboot after that fiasco.

I don't care how it's resolved, different TTY or _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN. Both sound reasonable. But I want my apps to be able to change resolution, even if it breaks your perfect paradigm.

I'm fine with this as long as any revenue generated from this is going towards science or advancing NASA's missions.

There is so much disinformation here. Just get yourself any standard $5/month VPN service. Set it up, and test it at home before you leave. Problem solved! Here's a great list:
http://lifehacker.com/5940565/why-you-should-start-using-a-vpn-and-how-to-choose-the-best-one-for-your-needs

Now about the other suggestions. Yes, the ALPHA tor correctly configured with bridges works today. But by the time you get there, China may have figured out how to block it again. As mentioned before, it's a cat and mouse game. Not to mention the fact that pages load about 10-20x slower over tor than they do over a regular VPN. This is only something I like to play with and your are nuts and a cheap bastard if you want to use it for your work.

The third option suggested here is to setup your own personal VPN. This is what I have done. I have one to my home computer and one running on Amazon EC2. They both work fine, but you have to know what your doing. If you haven't setup a dozen VPNs before and can't tell me what MTU is stay away.

Even in the major cities, Internet access in China is much slower than most places in America. The fastest Internet you get at home or high end hotels is 5Mbps/1Mbps with 1Mbps/128 the standard. Go into the rural countryside and even the 2 major Cell carriers may not offer Internet. Locals use dialup or deal without. Small towns are somewhere in the middle. Also note that you'll need a L2TP VPN for your smartphone since PPTP VPNs are blocked by cell carrier.

Exactly, pure hydrogen is no more dangerous to handle than a canister of compressed gas. This youtube video shows massive weather balloon purposely set on fire. The burning latex is more dangerous than the mild flame from the hydrogen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQvpK9cl0No
There are so many current scientific and medical uses for helium, it blow my mind that the government lets us waste them on party balloons. If safely is really the issue, then let's ban candles for birthday cakes. That poses a far greater risk than pure hydrogen party balloons.

I live in Shenzhen and bought one of these 400RMB tablets( went for the upgraded 1GB version) just a few days ago on a whim. Many of my friends and coworkers have too. Most importantly, despite the price, we will NEVER buy one again either. Here is way.
1) No manufacturer support for bug-fixes or upgrades. Your stuck with ICS or whatever buggy version comes with your device
2) Brittle low resolution glass displays. Mine is already cracked from floating around in my backpack, despite the screen protector and case that came with it.
3) Terribly slow 1-4GB of FLASH. It took an hour to transfer 2GB of MP3s
4) Slow, unreliable, unresponsive capacitive touch screens. Scrolling worked OK, but I dreaded having to type on the virtual keyboard.
5) Abysmal build quality. Misaligned buttons. Screen bulging on 1 side. Cheap, plastic, feel.
6) Terrible battery life. My tab could last about 1 hours playing 3D games, 2 browsing the web.
I am still rocking an iPhone 3GS and it is superior to that POS in every way. When I return to the states, I plan to buy a Nexus 7 or Kindle HD. The $55 I wasted on my China special would of been much better spent on upgrading one of those.

All google is saying is that if you don't want to play by their rules, they won't give you support. Fork it, and you're on your own. Seems fair to me and they're not "going after anyone".

That's a terrible analogy. Trying to power a low end smartphone with Firefox, is more like trying to modify submarine to fly.

HTML and JavaScript were never designed for this purpose and it shows. After the browser wars, JavaScript has proven to be bloated and resource intensive. 100x slower then native apps. This is a stupid idea and doomed to fail.

I came here to say exactly this. The problem with Android is that most apps are running in an VM wasting valuable CPU cycles. Linux runs great on the 700 MHz raspberry PI, fire up firefox and the thing slows to a crawl. Now load up a JavaScript app and go grab a coffee. Let's face it. JavaScript is great for what it does, but is a terrible environment when speed is critical. It wasn't designed for this purpose and no matter how much they optimize it, it will never compete with native apps.

To achieve it's goal, what Mozilla should be doing is taking Android and stripping out all the laggy dalvik apps and replacing them with Native Apps NDK apps. Remove some kruff to make the GUI fully hardware accelerated, and now you'd have an attractive solution for low end smartphones.

Love it! Our leader's message blocked by a DCMA takedown, reminds me of a quote:
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
-Abraham Lincoln

Agreed. Something has to be done. Censorship and wrongful take downs are just one aspect of the many problems with our copyright laws. My biggest issue with them is that they prevent young artists from remixing anything from their generation. This needs to be fixed by repealing the DCMA and reforming these draconian copyright laws.

Before Disney, copyright granted authors protection for 28 years. I’m fine with that. The problem is it’s pushing 100 years now. This stifles our culture and innovation.

For example, Star Wars was released in 1978, so it should have gone into the public domain by 2005. With existing laws, George Lucas retains exclusive rights to butcher the SW universe until 2072!!!! 95 YEARS! Imagine what new aspiring authors could do with his work, instead of the sterile Jar Jar crap that Lucas served us, recently? Thank you, copyright.

Do you think your favorite authors would not have created their material, if it was not protected for 70 years after their death? The copyright system is designed make companies, like Disney and RIAA, rich at the expense of our freedom.

The irony is Disney made its fortune by ripping off the great works of others. Walt Disney was a master of this. At its origins, Mickey Mouse was a parody of the Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill Jr. And almost all of their great work since then has continued this tradition of copying. Just to name a few: Pinocchio, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Jungle Book, Sleep Hollow, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid,

With the RIAA, SOPA and Courtney Love’s excellent essay on how they screw over artists should give you an idea of how this industry works. http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/

If you want to know more, Kirby Ferguson's series "Everything is a Remix" at
http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
is a great watch!

My 32GB iPhone 3GS has been maxed out for the past year with songs and apps. After I replaced the battery, lack of storage is the only reason to upgrade. Sorry Nokia and Apple, my next phone is going to have MicroSD slot. Android looks like it's going to be the only option.

WRONG! From the PDF:
"In Google Chrome in particular, a control for unsafe redirection is im-
plemented, disabling the user direct access to a data URI if that URI is
the target of a redirection, such as from a URL shortening service."
  "Internet Explorer has a limit to data URIs,"
Google Chrome and IE have implemented security features to prevent this form of attack.