Ahem... You've never seen a cabbie whose response on "take me to Rockaways" is a dumbfounded look. That's when you open up a dictionary and say, "Mujhe Rockaway Beach aura Amstel le chahiyeh" which is met with a loud praise that you can speak Hindi very well.

I once was talking to a cabbie who told me that in order to get into a cab business one has to have a medallion that cost over a million dollars. And only those people own cab companies. Also city prevents any other companies from registering there. Cab companies reminds me of a mob. Their services truly suck (especially in the city of Washington DC), cabs are smelly, they overcharge, airconditioner on hot day never works and on top of that the drivers are rude and hardly speak any English! And on top of that now we are told they are out there to get to the community-shared ridership companies?

Can we do something like "Holy shift! Look at that asymptote on that mother function!"

But tell me our dear 2008/2012 Obamaniac liberals Slashdot liberals did not see it coming...

No wonder MS has still tons of unsold tablets in stock. I would buy the device in a hart-beat if it were much cheaper, and if a clear way of wiping the current OS and putting Linux and subsequently Android on it would exist.

Nice! I want to get a hold of this prototype! The only two questions that I have is does it have an audio port and can they make it a color e-ink device for the same amount of battery consumption? (I don't know about this particular one, but my Nook Simple Touch lasts me one month on one charge and I use it every day.)

Sorry but it seems to me the MsOffice has been first neutered when they went into mandatory ribbon interface making it quite unusable.

If it is replacement for paper, a regular e-ink device that is modded to be a little more than just an e-reader does a hell of a job, like for example Nook Simple Touch.

A Freudian slip , also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious ("dynamically repressed") subdued wish, conflict, or train of thought guided by the super-ego and the rules of correct behaviour. *cough* *cough*

LMAO I would think RUSSIAN would be the very first language the proxy would support... if not written in.

"Committee on Family, Women and Children" was a standard Soviet pressure-tool for dissimination of propaganda and criticism of NATO nations at any convenience. See also "Committee of Peace".

I even tried KOI-8R -- it does not work.

I think it is because you can get so many "interesting" symbols from a standard unicode table to represent almost anything, but than again -- Slashdot was never censored.

I agree. To prohibit such speech, they have to implement Censorship. it is an excuse to take away even more liberty.
(Po russki is more eloquant (sorry Slashdot won't allow cyrillics) -- Etot nakaz ne ot blyat' s Dubi a ot sutenyerov s Kremlya.

Snowden probably does not know yet, but Russians are very much interested in American government secrets. He just might find himself on a fourth floor of Lyubyanka, in a padded room without windows (Lyubyanka is former KGB headquaters, now FSB, did not have a basement jail).

You probably trolling. But just in case you are simply naive or stupid, please remember that Russians care a lot less than American government about what they can force or can not force him to accept, much less than American government.