Actually, some Android firmwares are Free as in freedom. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system)

One of the videos shows the transitions between rotary and fixed phases, during which the vehicle is essentially in free-fall. How long does it have to stay in transition, spinning up/down the wing/blades before it can complete the transition? You can definitely rule passenger flight out, and will ikely be less reliable than the V-22 by an order of magnitude - and that's saying something.

My Dear Friend, I have it on good authority that Natalie and her father had EVERYthing to do with your Internets.

My guess would be that the machine that launched the attack was simply spoofing its IP.

I'm curious if the researchers have any data about the "red" and orange spots on the map. Specifically in the middle latitudes in Canada. There is almost a horizontal bar of cooling in the middle north of canada, south of the arctic circle. What's that about?

my guess would be the worms came from soil that came with plants from the south.

Canada? sure. but in the USA? in ohio? I don't think so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_the_Americas

In the video, shuttleworth goes on about how ubuntu is this revolutionary way to have the same software on your phone and desktop. Umm, did he miss the memo about windows 8? I mean I know Windows 8 sucks and all, but ignoring the big gorilla in the room just makes him seem out of touch.

Yes, Jobs did something, but by equating Apple with Jobs, you are ignoring the contribution of 500,000+ Apple employees in the US alone. That's ridiculously insulting to everyone who has worked for Apple.

All due respect, but now that the man is deceased, can we finally stop equating everything related to Apple Inc with its former figure head?

Good lord, this entire article is based on one tweet - 107 characters. Surely we could have waited for Carmack to say something more detailed than this??

I still remembering being grumpy when FreeBSD upped the memory requirement from 4MB to 6MB, rendering it uninstallable on my 486 laptop. I win.

You might have a point if the packet was lost in their network. But the packet can also be lost on your wifi, or on someone else's network.

So yes, you probably should be.

Just thought of two more:
- (UDP) DNS traffic
- differing definitions of kilobyte (1000 vs. 1024)

and I'm sure there are still more.