Here are my primary uses of Ubuntu One:

1) Sync files that I might want to load from another computer of my mobile phone. I do this with my ebooks and FBReader on Android.

2) Sync Tomboy notes, which I can view from any computer or my mobile phone using Tomdroid. Having your notes available anytime, anywhere, is extremely useful.

3) Sync photos taken on my mobile phone to my laptop automatically. Syncing videos takes a little manual work, but I'm told that's being resolved.

You have to register an account with the Ubuntu One service before you can start using it, so it takes more user action than simply installing Ubuntu.

Except the Chinese aren't consumers, that's the biggest problem with their economy.

If we stop buying their lead-filled shit, they'll stop buying our shit-filled bonds.

If they did what to us, push information through our government mandated internet censorship filters? If China insisted that we should have freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom to assemble? Yeah, we'd be pissed.

All you would really need is the fingerprint, which they could print out for you on a business card. Then when you connect the first time, you verify the fingerprint with the certificate being offered by the server, if they match you trust the certificate and go on your merry way.

I got this keyboard for my kids, it's really nice and has stood up to their button mashing without a problem:
http://www.amazon.com/Crayola-11071-Keyboard/dp/B00167ZYMK

Perl object can be any blessed reference, they don't have to be hashes. You can use a scalar or array variable too. It's just that blessing a hash gives you the added benefit of using the hash keys like instance variables.

Still, on most Linux distros you're talking about maybe a dozen keys that the user themselves specifically trusted, and the chances of any 2 Linux users trusting the same 3rd party will be remarkably small. Under the Windows model, any Verisign trusted certificate will get you access, there's got to be millions of those (unless they restrict drivers to a different root certificate than app or website signing, but even then it'll be in the thousands), and if any one is compromised then every Windows user would be vulnerable.

It's not impossible, it just always results in this: http://xkcd.com/716/

There are always exceptions made to the Feature Freeze, and since this is a major initiative for 10.10, I have no doubt they'll be able to keep updating it until the RC.

Yes, just image the horror of organisms that convert water into it's base parts, and are capable of growing, reproducing and spreading.much