The electrical bus fleet at Shanghai's 2010 expo had something smarter: charging stations at the bus stops.

Having traveled to London recently, more than helping solve crimes, I believe the main advantage is *preventing* crimes. With its maze of tunnels, the truth is that one feels pretty safe walking on a deserted Underground tunnel when you know there's a CCTV camera dissuading criminals from acting. And this clearly surpasses any pseudo-discomfort from a "Big Brother effect": hey, I've got nothing to hide. If you want to film me, go ahead.

Why don't you create a root account so you can su all you like? Also interesting: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1415&tag=nl.e011

Now, if only Israel and Palestine could be submerged...

At $2,300, you better offer me something that work without pedaling! Why charging the price of a motorbike for a bicycle?

Probably because when somebody is using Linux, odds are good they're running Ubuntu (according to distro watch, for example). Ubuntu is as good as any other distro, and Canonical is making a remarkable work making the adoption of Linux work. Please, don't ruin that with elitist comments.

I'd like to see the day where the EU will do the same for Microsoft. I would like to see the day where I could buy a computer and either a) didn't have any OS installed (meaning I'd have to buy a Windows license if I wanted to buy it with windows) b) Force stores to give me the cashback if it came with a Windows OS and I didn't want to use it

Not true. I seem to remember XP was probably faster on my old PC than the Ubuntu version I used then (Feisty, if I'm not mistaken).