Can someone explain why a .nl organization has the power to produce .com certs? I mean, isn't this an obvious flaw in the domain/ssl/registrar/CA/whatever hodgepodge we take for granted everyday? Is it even possible to limit these guys or is it "Hi, you're a CA now, you can do anything!"

I remember the same thing happening with a different foreign CA not too long ago and a lot of hand wringing over state owned telecoms in China/Iran/Syria and other autocratic nations. The domain name system works like this. China can make all the .ch domains it wants, but a Chinese CA can make all the .com SSL certs it wants? That's fucked up.

> Get Android working on the TouchPad

You mean 2.3 which is open sourced and available? The 2.x branch is incredibly shitty for tablets and wont give you access to the market or any of the google apps.

If anyone does this, they have to use Honeycomb, its light years ahead of 2.x in regards to tablets. People want a proper tablet not a giant phone.

Im so sick of half-assed 2.x tablets hurting Android's reputation. Thankfully, only tinkerers will enjoy the suckitude of 2.x tablets.

The same pattern keeps appearing. iPhone vs Android a few years ago and then an oddball player called the Pre came along which never drew in a lot of developers and never had the level of apps Android and iPhone enjoy. Pre failed. WebOS was later put on what was priced as essentially a feature phone, the Pixi.

Now, we're playing this game again. iPad vs Honeycomb Tablets and then WebOS appears again. Not a lot of interest, still no developers, still no apps, and HP just decided to call it quits when their forecasts said this thing was going to be another Pre.

In operating systems there tends to be a natural monopoly and natural duopolies because of the scales involved and because people really don't crave that much choice. This is yet another example of this reality.

Most likely, someone will released some half-assed 2.3 ROM for this tablet and it'll suck. Shame google isn't releasing 3.2 for this thing via a side-channel. Honeycomb really is on par with ipad and makes for incredible experience.

Not to mention externalities like cost of maintaining & developing that massive flight app, tech support for these devices, maintenance and repair, charging schedules, theft costs, etc.

Oh course, the people who managed the print edition can do some of this work, but imagine most of them will be let go and replaced with an ipad helpdesk and app development department as well as QA and all the management involved in making it all happen.

I'm certainly not against progress, but there's a lot more here than just "we're saving weight/paper."

Just a thought, but 38lbs isn't a lot. I'm surprised these companies don't incentivize people to stay thin and healthy. A crew is like 6 people. If they all lost 5lbs then that's 30lbs right there and all this gas savings. Heck, why not weigh me and charge me my cost by weight and the weight of my luggage.

Yes, socialized medicine leads to a better negotiation position thus Canadians and Europeans can command lower prices for US drugs. Here in the US where we're 37th in the world in healthcare, we actually pay more.

The idea of selling Canadian or European drugs back to Americans scares the pharmaceutical industry so much that they've set the federal government after google. Ah, American healthcare. Shitty and expensive and defended by every Republican around.

>After reading that they've hired a reality TV "psychic" as their director of security

Right, because its so much more reasonable to believe in a 2,000 year old carpenter who came back to life, a viscious Arab warlord who spoke to god, or a Jew who split the sea.

Turns out most humans are incredibly irrational when it comes to their basic beliefs about life, history, and death.

Its bullshit because most of these toolbars cause browser instability (lets ignore the massive privacy issues). So what these developers are proposing is that I can have their application, but at the cost of my browser running like shit going forward. I don't consider damaging an unrelated piece of software on my machine a reasonable exchange.

Not to mention, they can sell ads to make money. Ads on the webpage that hosts the installer as well as in app ads. Its not toolbars or being broke. Lets stop pretending that toolbars are the only way to monetize free software or that its remotely acceptable way of doing business.

That's true, but if you want to avoid the "toolbar" bullshit there's no safe haven. Heck, when I'm not using SF and something is hosted independently there's no shortage of ads with "download" buttons designed to fool the end user.

Its just dirty. This is one of the last nails in the non-controlled/non-app store coffin. Oh well, I think if done right, this is a change that'll help people.

The last few Windows apps I've downloaded from there came with their own "INSTALL TOOLBAR FOO" now in the installer. PDFCreator is one example.

This is why we're headed towards managed computing and app stores. The game is just too dirty. Joe User has no idea whats going on. His computer has a dozen toolbars and all he's done is follow his geeky friend's advice to install stuff like PDFCreator or other GPL products. I'd rather just be microbilled 20 cents or whatever they make per install. Shame no one has properly cracked the microbilling nut.

The Acer Iconia is $399. 10 inch, dual core, fast, Honeycomb, etc. Ipad2 starts at $499. Sure, that's only a $100 difference, but that's a real difference to a lot of people.

We're probably going to see a $350-$299 Honeycomb dualcore tablets by Xmas, which will be on par with the current ipad2 and be behind the rumored ipad3. I think $299 is the magic price point where Joe Casual will blow some cash on one. That's my own personal price point and consider $299 for a Honeycomb table to be a reasonable purchase to replace my current ebook reader.

Err, engineers aren't 2nd class citizens. The problem is that software engineers/coders still are.

I feel you're overthinking this.

Existing WAPs. I'm assuming you have admin access to them. If they're connected to telephone wire that means the hotel has its own DSL network (search for the DSLAM) or some prorietary data over phone solution (weird little dongles on each end). No need to replace these things. 90% of the work is already done.

Find the DSLAM or whatever router is currently serving the WAPs. Pull you comcast line to there. If the router or switch is aged, consider replacing them.

Verification, for small businesses I prefer to just give out a WPA key that changes monthly (teach staff how to change them). Ideally, you can have a radius system but that will require API access to their guest management software to pull values like last name, room number, etc. That might be overkill though.

Since Google decided to delay releasing Honeycomb's source because they didnt want more half-cooked tablets on the market, suddenly the loud-mouth brigade is trying to paint them in a bad light. Google exerting a little control on the wild-west world of tablets and its own phoneOS is a good thing. Heaven forbid AOpen or some other shit shop wait a few weeks for google to iron out the bugs, have them verify their hardware can run Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich and make them sign a contract that they will updates the OS to the newest versions for a period of 18 months. The de facto world of release garbage and buggy phones, never supplying updates and hurting Android's reputation is no longer welcome, and I'm glad.

Already do this with KMS and MAK keys. KMS keys talk to a local license server. I think these articles are just written in a way to scare people and sell ad impressions. In the end, we're probably just seeing a different kind of volume key for corporate and maybe more hoops for residential users. "ZOMG DOWNLOAD AN IMAGE EVERY BOOT FROM MS" is kiddie bullshit.

>Not that I think it'll impact Apple's bottom line in any way. ha.

Half of Apple's income is from the iPhone. The Galaxy S phone is arguably cutting into the iPhone marketshare, as its one of the better Android phones out there and is a little cheaper and can be had on multiple carriers. I have a Vibrant on T-mobile and its a really neat piece of technology, so I can see why Apple is afraid of it.

Apple's take, imho, is that they'red damned if they don't do a patent attack and damned if they do, so why not? They don't give two shits about upsetting their loudmouth superfans nor about setting off a patent war that could potentially cripple the industry. They just need to worry about next quarters earning report.

I suspect these desperate measures are signs that Apple's massive growth is beginning to stagnate. Everyone who wants an iPhone probably has one and if Android continues to move in, then you won't have the growth you had in the past.