If they stopped to take photos over his wall, yes. Likely even if they just stopped and stared. Staring through someone's window, even if you do it from your own house, could be illegal too in some cases. The laws are specifically targeted against peeping toms, paparazzis and the like.

K-lite just uses ffmpeg. Di-AVC also seems to beat CoreAVC but it's going to be payware too. DivX is free; just make sure you don't install any other crap from their installer. You only want their AVC filter, not the divx codec and certainly not their media player, etc.

They still offer those cheaper models. Their low prices pique your interest in netbooks, and then when you do your research/talk to a salesman you learn about these better versions that you could have for just a little extra. I think the manufacturers know exactly what they're doing.

No idea, but at least HP 5101 is available with a 1366x768 10 inch screen and it doesn't seem more expensive than other netbooks. I can't think of any others like it though, at least not in the same price range.

x.264 isn't a decoder so it's not related to video playback in any way

RTFA. This whole news is about making the navigation free too.

It has always done that much for free. By "navigation" Nokia means (voiced) turn by turn directions while simultaneously tracking your gps position. I'm pretty sure the app you downloaded won't do that yet.

I don't think you can equate GPS with navigation. There's tons of useful stuff you can do with a gps without the latter. You can set a point on the map and then have the gps track you on your way there. It just won't tell you where to turn; you need to look at the map and figure it out on your own. It has been enough for me for the past few years.

If you are talking about cars, why would you run the phone, or a dedicated gps unit for that matter, on batteries?

MGmaps (not Mobile Google Maps, but Mobile Gmaps. a free (as in beer) 3rd party client) does exactly this. One big issue is the filesystem: individual tiles are small but they end up taking tons of space once you put them on a FAT32 SD card.

It's usable but you have to fine tune what zoom levels you store (= get the zoomed in tiles only for dense urban areas).

Mgmaps has supported locally stored google (and other vendors) maps for years. Works on (almost?) any phone that lets you install java applications. There are tools to automatically download selected areas at whatever zoom levels you want to.

Last time I tried, Google didn't mind spidering the maps, but they'd ban you if you went for the satellite data. I believe the download programs have good proxy support to circumvent this, though.

What good is the internet if they don't have the right to a private connection? blah blah blah Echelon

Look, I've run into that filter exactly once, which caused me to shrug and move on. It blocks child porn, some regular porn that looks like it might be child porn, and some guy's blog that contains a list of everything that is blocked. Yes, there is an ideological problem there, and yes, Finland isn't perfect. But are you seriously raising the question over whether having a broadband connection is any good if you can't access, what, a few hundred non-free porn sites and a single whiny blog?

You do realize US spends more, way more, on health care per capita than Finland does, right?

3.5mm stereo plug is what Nokia has used for it in the past.

Nintendo DS. iPhone is utterly insignificant next to that. Also, to generalize a bit, American games tend not to be so hot in Japan. And even if they were, Civ has been on the DS for ages.