It might happen though not as likely. I saw a tv news show a couple weeks ago showing phone chargers being sold on the street in China that were filled with packets of sand. The more expensive ones had a little less sand. The Chinese shopkeeper (if you call squatting on a bridge a shop) had no qualms. "Your phone charged some amount so you should be happy." Dell apparently shares some heredity with these shop owners on the bridge.

A buffer overflow should not provide the keys to the city.
We need security orthogonal to the executing application surface.
Here's an idea, don't know if it will catch on but how about
encrypting the data in it, whitelisting the users / apps that can use it, thereby
reducing the
surface vulnerable to attack. It would require a sophisticated public key
infrastructure integrated
with all processes. Data objects could organize their fields into multiple segments that can be origressively unlocked.

What wristwatch?
Beta is unviewable on my htc evo 4g, major display bugs and no link to comments clickable.
It views boingboing.net's infinite page with embedded videos fine.
There is another site closing in on fuckup, after disabling anon posting then switching to discus I post very very little,
read comments much less, became a lurker.
The bb comments digest mail is of limited value.
I hate the mobile site too fwiw.

Okay I just tried it. OMG FUCK ME.
Viewed on my phone, htc evo 4g.
Very serious image display errors, stretchef to
many screen heights. The links to the article are all broken.
Dont think from-the-xx-dept tags are there.
Wont view ./ on phone ever again if that braindead clusterfuck goes through,
which is most of the time these days. Cannit see posts either!!!!!!
FUCK BETA!!!!!!!

What you see is various software packages all reinventing what should only have to be done once, right.
Various people have invented corkboard ideas, on the mac Stickies is post-it notes and Scrivener is a research and writing system with corkboard as part of it. I have seen various drag and drop style interfaces for drawing uml or configuring networking. One package I am involved in now has a canvas you can drag and drop nodes in a flowchart.
Personally I had an idea for a tool that would draw on the desktop and define regions of it.
Currently the desktops I have seen are just a blank screen that inevitably gets filled up with crap which then has to get put somewhere, or it is just a few shortcuts. The manu bar (on a mac), the trashcan and doc are the only actually functioning items.
I would like to propose that the desktop should be an object oriented scriptable canvas with some intelligence, with storage, networking, layers, ability to transport them between instances and platforms, and something that actually helps you do your work. Smalltalk comes to mind. Anyway, my two cents. There is a lot of screen real estate but none of the operating systems actually do anything useful with it. The drawing tools that are out there in powerpoint, libreoffice or whatever are pitiful and unintuitive, so it takes a lot of work to make something useful and you don't use them in a meeting to illustrate something, you go to a whiteboard and scribble something illegible. Or you get out a big piece of paper. I'm saying a strong canvas with simple unbloated widgets in place of the desktop would be extremely useful as a standard computing component, instead of using the tons of little widgets that solve little bits of the problem.

Looking forward to when I can stop buying all these temporary phone chargers in convenience stores and just set up an IV!
And the computer I buy in 2020 will have an artificial circulatory system.

It sounds expensive but considering strategy it might be worth it.
Without even studying it, the Nest could grow up to be way more than thermostats.. think about home and commercial security and surveillance perhaps like SECOM, a Japanese home security services company that has a base station in the wall near your front door. A Nest or Android style system would revolutionize it. Looking at the UK site they also have a GPS personal tracking device.. would be easy (for Google) to make an app that does this with an android phone.
I'd see it more like their motorola purchase. With something that is generally accepted as an always-on home base station, but with more daily interaction than say your wifi router which is another always-on unit, now Google can start selling appliances that are always on and interacting with you no matter where you are.. maybe the Nest app will in the future have a button that lets you stream from your home media server to a nearby android-powered amp even? Or a button on your thermostat will switch to robot-managed home security that doesn't go off by accident and all the annoying things alarms do? I could see a ton of cheap sensors for everything from pipes to roof to smoke and infrared.. Anyway as a beachhead into the house it might be worth it.
http://www.secom.plc.uk/
http://www.secom.co.jp/english/personal.html

It is less than 30 ft x 50 ft x (2 floors + 1 basement). That's not a giant house unless you are in the middle of the city.

I only skimmed the paper briefly but it is interesting in that:
- User clicks a wordcloud keyword/hashtag that draws lines from it to multiple florets (individual nacelle-like microflowers in a sunflower head), each of which represents a tweet in recent portion of a feed.
- Repudiates the idea of filtering to meet viewer expectations so everyone can see the same content.
- A cuteness factor (or what they say is "organic" being like a flower) apparently reduces gut reaction to tweets you do not agree with
- Viewer is able to actively pick tweets to read. Presumably as the sunflower head image is mathematically generated and each floret's color could be tweaked to match a positive/negative sentiment score, allowing the user to pick only items that agree/disagree with them but to do so consciously.

This last point would seem to be ideal and I'd like to see slashdot include something more than the slider ("read only above this score"), particularly for a topic that has over say 500 or 800 replies. How about a data visualization that shows all the posts/threads for an article and lets the user select based on where in this chart a post is? At the very list, something 2-dimensional not 1-dimensional.

FYI I and probably almost no American absolutely cannot eat for example shiokara which is Japanese soupy squid entrails. I am totally with you. Not even in the realm of acceptability.

But fish sauce, I don't know the process beyond that it is fermented anchovies, according to wikipedia. There are high quality and lesser quality brands. Basically, do you like Thai food? Then you like fish sauce. It's like soy sauce for them. Incidentally wiki says worcestershire sauce is related, also being fermented and having anchovies. So I think it is much ado about nothing. A very little fish sauce goes a long way, I am not expert but it is great for sauteing shrimp with some garlic and hot pepper, also the typical Thai dipping sauce uses it. FWIW I got roped into trying Surströmming (fish fermented in a can from Sweden) and though I found a way to eat a little basically thought I'd die at first. That kind of survival style fermenting which you have to be marooned in the north sea to eat is a different ball of wax. There is apparently a vast number of kinds of traditional fermented foods many of which are horrible but fish sauce, at least the kind you can get form high quality brands, is one of the great jewels of cuisine. I wouldn't put it on a hamburger, I don't think, but it is central to Thai cuisine which makes everything okay! A link I found discussing brands -- http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/379200
and these:
http://shesimmers.com/2012/07/thai-fish-sauce-taste-test.html
http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/features/fishsauce1.html