Any time there is any advancement in the field of slow motion video capture, the only answer is Baywatch.

It's about time we get a real document app for mobiles. I'm surprised it took them this long to announce it, but I guess they've been busy with all the other drama. I hope the web version allows collaborative document creation/editing as well, otherwise, I don't really see the point of pursuing BOTH of these projects.

Seems to be a fairly moot point considering the results of the poll, but yeah, ME was about the worst thing Windows ever did, however, it did generate some rather fun bash.org quotes, so not a total loss.

I know that it's a total conspiracy theory and totally not worth believing. If they were going to install rootkits, they would do it at the factories where they make all the phones that everyone everywhere uses already, that way they can spy on all the people who don't come to China because they don't want the rootkits from the Chinese cell towers too.

To be really honest with you, it's kind of a crapshoot no matter what you choose. There are three "choices" as far as carriers here: China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom. China Mobile will be a bit more expensive for things like 3G, and supposedly isn't as fast as China Unicom. China Telecom is as cheap as they come, but doesn't seem to have much in the way of extras as far as services are concerned. My suggestion is to go with China Unicom, however, if you want to be uploading pics on the spot, you better have a VPN ready, or be prepared to use a Chinese website to upload the pics to since Picasa and other foreign picture hosting services are generally blocked here. As for phones, I personally use a Huawei U8150 (which is known in the US as the T-Mobile Comet), since it is about the cheapest smartphone you can get right now (I got mine for about 700 yuan, and it came with 2 batteries). It's got Android 2.2, bluetooth and wifi, but the camera is about as crappy as they come. Other than that, it's a pretty decent phone. I will tell you that GPS doesn't really do you much good in China though, since everything is changing so constantly here that many places appear on GPS where they are no longer present in the real world. You might consider getting the cheapest possible basic phone (I found a wonderful nokia with a built-in flashlight for 189 yuan on the Chinese version of Newegg) and just get a 3g USB dongle for whatever computer I assume you will take with you. Good luck.

Yes, that's true, and that's exactly as it should be, however, it could easily be cast as a slippery slope by politicians since most of them want military and military-related technology closed down for quite a while, and I'm sure that NSF has some connection(s) to military research.

... is ben, why isn't his name capitalized and why do the CWA and IBEW have him on strike?

You need to put "more spending on phone systems NOW" on the reverse. Always leave em guessing.

Not to mention, with pseudonyms you could easily get Mr. Mxyzptlk back to his home by inviting him to your circles on your fake Kltpzyxm page.

Indeed, that's the thing I was most surprised about in this story. Now I wonder if this hacktivism is doing the government's job better than the government could ever do itself.

Isn't competitive banking causing just as many problems for the "average citizen" as the disorganization of the government is causing for itself? Or have I been misunderstanding the news as of late?

I think you're missing the point. Most of the people here want Google+ to succeed and offer a useful alternative to Facebook and other social networking sites, but this stymies their plan to migrate to Google+. The reason for the outrage is that people like everything else in Google+ so much and that this aspect of the service is destroying an otherwise great thing.

Plagiarism? This is trademark infringement. Plagiarism was when they copied code for the Green Dam project (which thankfully fell to pieces and was generally scoffed at by most people here, one of the few times I've been proud of Chinese sensibilities).

That is by and far the most clever thing I have read today (re: the Cleveland Browns letter).

I see Facebook ads within my gmail very often, especially since Google+ has been taking the limelight.