One could fairly easily sell these sorts of bugs for much more than a "modest sum." I believe the common counter argument is that those finding these bugs should be given something closer to the "market price" (for bugs in something as wide-spread as IE, this can be on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars).

I don't really agree with this argument, just thought I'd fill you in on why some people would be complaining. The fact that these bugs were found and patched means that it can't be a horrible arrangement though.

(Note: IANARFE)
There is a difference between prioritizing antenna performance over physical design, and maximizing antenna performance. Maximizing antenna performance isn't really necessary if the signal is "good enough", meaning you wouldn't drop calls when you hold the phone, for example. Prioritizing would mean "this adjustment would look nicer, but we would start to drop calls if we did it", and they are suggesting those adjustments would not be made.

Also, I believe the older rod antennas would be for the 900MHz spectrum, rather than the more modern 2.4GHz spectrum. You can fit an entire quarter-wave antenna inside of the case of a cell phone easily now (although of course having an antenna that extends above the head to get a clearer signal would still be beneficial)

Finally! Then this will certainly be the Year of the Linux Desktop!

Sure, but a thick cloud with high density can also cover up a lot of important things, like roadways and utility poles.

I don't know what is wrong with his statement. Last time I checked, power plants produce more electricity than they use without violating any thermodynamic principles...
Presumably they are converting the stored energy in the waste into electricity, much as a coal fired plant might convert the chemical energy in the coal into electricity.

My dad is a photographer (doing archival work for museums and the like) who uses a Hasselblad. I can verify that at least one of the older models came with a 40GB hard drive attached to the camera, and I think the newer model that he got uses a hard drive as well.

While it would depend a lot on what the photographer is doing, he also tethers his camera to his PC most of the time (since he only shoots stationary things in controlled environments), and the images get saved directly to the computer rather than getting stored anywhere on the camera, so the hard drive space isn't really an issue.

*ignores low UID*

Original? you must be new here.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/28/mozilla-extends-lucrative-deal-with-google-for-3-years/

After seeing the pictures on their website http://www.peratech.com/qtcscience.php (the ones at the bottom), this technology looks a whole lot less friendly than an etch-a-sketch.

Sure, I know these are tiny particles, but if most consumers see a giant spiky ball shooting lightning I think they might be a bit weary of this new technology.

I have to wonder a few things after seeing that video:

What happens when a person going 70mph suddenly loses control of their vehicle?
How accurate can that sort of gun be? Over what sort of angle and distance is it will effective?
Is there a way to shield the car with a faraday cage to prevent this sort of thing from happening? And if not, wouldn't this just mess up the police cars? What's going to stop the police (or **AA) from "accidentally" frying your computer with one of these?

This is certainly cool technology that I'd love to get my hands on.. but more info would be nice...

I think this graph in the wiki links sums the problem up nicely.

These copyright extensions are simply ridiculous. It's pretty obvious that the copyrights are going to continue being extended indefinitely, even though this clearly wasn't the original purpose of our IP laws. What gives?

I'm definitely willing to say that I have had bad experiences with Ubuntu upgrades breaking things in the past, mostly in the way of my monitor set up.
However, the 15 minutes it takes to get three monitors each with virtual desktops back up and running vastly outweighs the Windows alternative of one giant screen with no virtual desktops.
I also don't know how anyone familiar with package repository systems can see that as anything but a huge time saver with respect to an operating system like Windows.

Very truthfully, cost of an operating system isn't that important to most tech-savvy people. If I want to use Windows 7, I can either pirate it, or get a free student copy. There is some time investment in getting a Linux setup that works for you, but after that's done, you can be far more productive than you ever would be with Windows.

It says in the article that one of the project goals was to be able to see Saturn's rings, and I know personally that one can see Saturn's rings with a fairly small telescope.
(Of course it depends on the orientation of Saturn and its rings, but assuming they are ideally situated, I don't see why someone wouldn't be able to see its rings, although IANAA)

An interesting benefit in living in poorer countries is that there is far less light pollution.
Maybe they could make these even cheaper by making some of the optics smaller (reducing the aperture), since something good enough to see Saturn's rings in rural America should be far more capable in an area with almost zero light pollution, like rural Africa.