Just looked at the chart again. Their gaming/entertainments sales is actually so low, you can barely see it hidden around 0 with online services.

That's trade secret law IIRC. It's different. IANAL.

I'm not sure your "best case" use cases are really accurate... first, I'm not sure I've ever seen a printer with a 1M page lifespan. I understand that you chose that number because that's the claimed paper-equivalent in one pack of the PET, but in reality, a lot of that investment will probably be wasted. And you neglected to include toner cost in your laser printer case.

Given how accurate the 5 day *weather* forecasts have been, I fear that the climate service will be about as accurate
as Dick Cheney shooting lawye... er, quail with a shotgun.

Here's a question on climate that anyone with a *good* clock can independently verify- why has the earth not slowed down in rotation? More specifically, the loss of glaciation over land (that is, non-floating) is supposed to be "tremendous". Using the figures published by the IPCC, if you do the calculation of the change in Izz (the moment of angular momentum of the Earth as it turns on it's axis, as a whole, as those glaciers melt down into equilibrium ocean), you see that it's on the order of a fraction of a part per million. That sounds tiny, but it's not- it's 2.6 seconds per month per PPM _every month_, so it's 2.6 seconds the first month, 5.2 seconds the second month, 7.8 seconds the third month, etc.

So, why is it that the earth spin rate / tidal drag equations from 30 years ago continue to predict the actual spin rate of the planet to parts-per-trillion accuracy? Something is clearly wrong when a simple measurement with a quality clock no better than Harrison could have built in 1761 can show that the Earth spin rate is simply not following what it must given the claimed rates of melting.

I think this is what displayport is trying to accomplish

The problem with this statement (and this thread) is that Bush wasn't from Texas - he was from Connecticut.

I want to like the ipad, but without enough storage to use as a media player, a crippled web browser, no hardware keyboard for office apps and such limited developer access I really cant think of a use for it.

They put orphan works up for a price. Google will then hunt you down and PAY YOU for the privilege, an initial sum and then money each sale.

Google's original plan was to pay everyone. Basically they'd go ...

"Hey, this book has been out of print for 45 years the author is dead and there are only a few hundred copies left on the planet. Lets scan it. Then let anyone who wants it dl it.... but it is copywritten, how about we charge people to dl it. With that we will pay the author money they certainly wouldn't be making otherwise. Hell, lets even throw in some extra money for when we put up each book as well.
And we'll email/phone/mail/fax every person we can find that owns copyrights telling them this. If they are alive and give a shit then they can ask us to take it down. Or they can take our money. Everyone wins, tons of books available for all."

Google books is likely to be a major loss leader, it is there to keep books from a near certain doom. Also in regards to copyright law, you are supposed to defend your copyright. If you don't defend it no one will do it for you. So if you are an author and your shit is up their without your permission. You can likely take Google to court. BUT! Because google has a very very easy opt out system in which they STILL pay you even then the initial 60$ or so. It will probably be hell to get a landslide victory. The courtcase protects Google a bit further, from people signed up to the writers guild or w/e.

Economy class is a thing from the past. With the recent policies of charging per bag, people is fitting more and more bags with them in the cabin, reason why I voted "with the luggage".

You've got it.

- Losing your $HOME/.ssh or wherever it lives under Windows.
- reconfiguring the server.
- starting to use ssh for the first time to that particular server.

For example, although my home machine has been in existance for years, and one of my work systems has similarly been around for years, I had somehow never ssh-ed from this particular machine at home to that machine at work. The machines at home don't share homedirs. So I got the warning yesterday, which I was able to copy for the posting above....

If for example you have 10 workstations on one end and 10 servers on the other, you need to type "yes" a total of 100 times. If you've done that 50 times, you're open to a man in the middle attack because you're used to getting that warning every once in a while.

So yes, that's user error. However, those are worth optimizing for, because I think the crypto is safe...

Saying "birds are dinosaurs" (or even "Birds Are Dinosaurs") is rather like saying "French is Latin" or "English is Proto-Indo-European." The lineage is unmistakable, but the one is not synonymous with the other. I am not sure why this conflation seems to be acceptable for birds and dinosaurs, when you never hear, for example, "homo sapiens is homo erectus" or "South America is Gondwanaland" or "Intel is Fairchild Semiconductor."

Simple... controlling governments route all routes through the choke points. All traffic, even to the house next door, would have to go through the censorship point and then back to the destination.

Simple... controlling governments ban satellite dishes.

Simple... controlling governments run the banks.

Simple... controlling governments don't allow consumer bandwidth. Try transmitting on an unlicensed spectrum here...

Simple... controlling goverment loves things that are low-bandwidth and cleartext because that doesn't take much effort to scan what they've collected.

yep, downloading now...

How is it not horribly expensive? I know each person has a different version of expensive, but ~$450-850 for something that doesn't do all that much seems expensive to me. The Touchbook and Lenovo Ideapad seem like much better solutions.