GE also received some forms of help. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/fdic-to-back-139-billion-in-ge-capital-debt/

I thought the summary did pretty well as it used most of your quoted text. I know this is Slashdot but people should at least read the summary before posting.

Reading through his post it shouldn't have taken more than half an hour from start to loaded ROM. Any other time would have been time just spent messing with his phone. It's not like he designed his own custom rom or something.

Even on a new phone I would recommend loading CM7.

I get annoyed at the overuse of the term "jailbreak" in the context of Android devices. I just feel it's not all that accurate of a description.

DRM != Proprietary
.mobi is based on an open format but with proprietary extensions. It is just easy to convert from an open format to proprietary in this case.

I actually leave Trapster running with my phone in it's GPS cradle. Then it beeps and lets me know that I am approaching a traffic enforcement point, school zone or red light camera or any of the other helpful warnings it also gives me. It acts as a great safety mechanism to help me watch out for potential road hazards... including the police.

Except when they have their turn signal on. There are only so many ways to visually communicate in a car.

Just was testing and that's about what I was getting on my NookColor. Though the lack of a physical keyboard was an issue... I just wanted to check if it would run at all.

But when I use earplugs or my in-ear phones without electronic device as ear plugs, then that is okay? Because that has been what I have been doing.

Works great on my NookColor with Phiremod based on CM7.
It also works great on my LG Optimus S with CM7.

Both are unsupported and ones an ereader, the other a low end free Android phone. By running well on this I think it shows how wide the range of hardware it can really run on.

76 pin connector. It was two bucks for me and made my console work like brand new. Extremely easy repair also.

Your trolling right? Because Delicious was just acquired from Yahoo, not by it.

Yahoo was the company from which they purchased Delicious.

The average library book lasts about 8 years. I'm not trying to argue with your point of considering cost effectiveness... I'm just correcting a detail. Books that last in the 20 to 50 year range are not average but they do exist.