Thanks, I've grabbed it, will check it out later.

I would have bought a single-file downloadable ebook from the AOSA site if they offered it though...

The machine sounds pretty boring...

Unless the REAL strategy is to patent-troll-troll, whereby the most profitable strategy is to attract trolls, get sued by them, then win and counter-sue for damages :)

no, they've replaced the court with a Microsoft product called JudgeWare 2012

If there's areas on a computing device that you can't really improve, and you still want people to plod along the upgrade path, just bump the numbers - like in the ca. 2000 "Mhz wars".

Like iPads!

Nah, everyone knows Windows is just for games.

They should have gone with OS/2

HDFury goes down, and a million chinese knockoffs rise up. If the *AAs are effective at controlling imports of those, then everyone gets to watch US media except those in the US. Maybe that's enough for them to say they've won, but by doing that they'd just be continuing down a financial spiral to oblivion.

The HDCP master key is now publicly-known, so you can generate a new one.

The article says it's basically a module that absorbs light and converts it to heat, but if you had some kind of opto-electronic stuff in there, I guess it might end up being a useful receiver for fibre-optic communications?

If they're so profitable, then where's my linux client, damnit!?

Damn creationists...

If you want extremely light, you don't want a prototyping board with big easy board-to-board pin headers. From the very link you posted, Arduino has the Pro and Pro Mini, which is powered from 3.3V (ie. button cells), and is as minimal a board as you can get without designing one yourself. As for data storage, are you suggesting there's a microcontroller in the same class as the Arduino's Atmel chips that have much more memory? I think you'd be limited to off-MCU storage no matter what platform you're using.

Yeah, the point is, regardless of the complex issues on what media a society can and does accept into itself, Australia has a "restricted to 18+" category for everything except games, as if sane, mature adults don't play them. This is the reason some very good games had to be artistically neutered for the Australian market (to water it down to the MA15+ category), and why there is a pressure to shoehorn games (like DNF) that are fit for an 18+ categorisation into the MA15+ bin.

What about all these 15-18 year old kids who'll think it's okay to throw pipe bombs at a mutant pig cop!?