Welcome to the club. We have many options available. Extremely cheap, high capacity, super-crash-splash-resistant flash-drives (key-ring included!), portable hard-drives, SD-cards (32 Gigs for phones these days?!). All options are always locally available, very reliable, and highly portable. Oh, did we mention quite safe from public consumption?

You're an idiot. Bringing in Diaspora only makes you look like a kid who reads feeds and tries to generalize some crappy opinion out of it. Diaspora is open-alpha software. It's open-heart surgery and obviously not finished. Go check out their Github and you'll see an ever increasing amount of commits daily, and see that it's easily in the top-ten most viewed repositories. It's user-base is expanding quite rapidly as they plow through features and bugs. Do your homework you anonymous loser.

I wouldn't say ill-gotten. Bitcoin is another form of investment, even if it is kind of stupid. He took his risk even though it doesn't seem like it was that much, and was duly rewarded (and then screwed). Accusing him of being a fraudster is completely unfair. Do you make fun of rich investors who spend enormous amounts of money on small startups? They are different kinds of investments, but an investment is an investment no matter what the kind, and this just seems to be an unfortunate loss he couldn't have predicted.

have you looked into dual-citizenship?

Linux ftw. I had been on Win7 and it wasn't working on Chromium. Later I booted to Ubuntu and it worked fine on Chromium. No idea why.

been done bud: http://www.uzbl.org/

Chromium bleeding edge.

I'm something.

doesn't work on a year old integrated graphics card (even with an i3 processor). What do you have to have to run it?

Can we get a Slashdot survey on this? Favorite alternative Skype software?

Here is a list of open source projects for telephony and video from the FSF. Help out if you can. http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/

Newsflash: AMD designs even faster, 4-D Transistor!

"Apple is proud to announce the iPhone 5. With a 64 core processor. That's 32 times any available phone on the market. And that means you can multitask like never before. At 32 times the speed."

I can just see it now...God save us. From the consumers.

And before any fanboi gets riled up, any phone company could do it. I just see Apple doing this first.

true (and true to some of the other responses to this post). It was perhaps one of the biggest decisions of our founding fathers to effectively create a "winner-takes-all" political system. In some other Democratic countries, you get represented more evenly by the actual percentages of population vote.

No! Even better! I bet we could convince them to open source it!