It's never really worked. The main downtown area, Castro Street, service is abysmal. If I can get an IP address, page load times are terrible. On the other hand, turn off the wireless on my phone and go with 4G and surfing is nice and snappy.

This was a PR stunt by Google, they were never serious about this. Or the old addage, "you get what you pay for". Given all you needed to access it was a google account, of course they're going to do the bare minimum. Conversely, with Vz/ATT, you're paying for service.

Is it miserable to the researchers? Whether they got $9400 or $500, surely they don't mind the cash. If you want MSFT to pay you $100,000 to find bugs, then apply for a QA position at MSFT and negotiate a $100k salary.

If I had the skills of a security researcher, I'd look at this as a way to make a few easy bucks.

It's probably much more profitable for IBM to license the technology to Google/Yahoo/MSFT/whoever than it would be for IBM to build search infrastructure.

Maybe you should read up on the specs for these cache. The drives do not acknowledge the writes to the OS until the write has been committed to the persistent and non-volatile storage.

I had one of the laptop versions for about a year and a half now, and it's definitely an improvement over a traditional drive and considerably cheaper per GB than an SSD.

I'm not sure why the majority of the population wouldn't opt for these as they still give you decent capacity and speed over dedicated HD or SSD drives.

Sure they're not as good as a dedicated setup with a SSD and a HD, but then again, the average user can still install everything on their C: drive without making any changes from the default installation.

When the Prius came out all the local FD's went to training on how to safely put out a fire in them and more importantly how to extract a passenger in the event of a crash.

There was quite a bit of concern around using the jaws of life and cutting into a live wire.

And so the FD's will get more training on Tesla's as well.

Only five times? As someone that just got back from Beijing, I'm surprised I wasn't killed in a traffic accident. Crossing the street is taking your life in your own hands and a taxi cab will turn any atheist into a devout believer.

There's that old saying about there are no atheists in fox holes... well, hop in a Beijing cab and you too will pray for a safe passage. And yes these are the official taxis not the unlicensed ones.

Why does it seem that each story has a photo above it that takes up 1/4 of my screen? I can barely get two story headlines on a page...

Hmm... Thought most of the reasoning against iPods and other mp3 devices which had no ability to transmit/receive was that by wearing the earbuds you were inhibiting your ability to hear any announcements or instructions by the flight attendants...

Last I checked an OC-768, as referenced in the article, isn't going to be crippled by the ISP.

Maybe it's time for you to realize that your uber-ultimate-epic-extreme bandwidth package from your ISP isn't really that fast compared to say what's in the article...

Like I said, why doesn't he run raid1 and mirror his computer's disk?

Linus flames an awful lot of people when they do something stupid by not understanding X or failing to do Y, so someone should flame him for failing to mirror his drive.

I'm no kernel maintainer but...

If his workstation is so important why doesn't he mirror the disks?
Back them up regularly?
Run a remote desktop to a server with the above conditions

How is one meant for spying different from any other type of antenna?

I realize there are different antennas for different frequency...

Unless of course there are ones that are only made for those frequencies used for espionage and not anything else... "Is this optimally made for listening to encrypted transmissions and not broadcast radio or TV signals?"

Hopefully, Fry's has them on sale in the espionage section.

How is the current or future generation of iWatches going to be any different than an iPhone/Android phone in a small form factor strapped to your wrist? You'll still need a bluetooth headset to talk/hear the conversation.

It seems that the iWatch companies are trying to save us 1second of having to dig our phone out of our pocket. They don't look all that attractive compared to a similarly priced watch (mechanical or quartz) and remind me of the calculator watches of the 80s.

Ads? We've got caps in the hundreds of GB and you complain about a few ads Which stream probably a few MB of content?