I thought Microsoft had dropped all support for Internet Explorer 6 and Windows XP?
If not, they should and force people still stuck on IE6 to upgrade.

If you have ever downloaded something from BitTorrent, you have also distributed it (I know of no BitTorrent client that will download an entire file and not upload a single byte of it to anyone else)

It wont have any impact on that since this case is about copyrights and not patents.

+1 to this, I bet you couldn't even get gigabit from you to even Google severs and kit, let alone the rest of the internet.

Like this vehicle, it folds the wings away for driving on the road. But unlike this vehicle (at least from what I can see), they have both a weight exemption from the FAA so it can be classified as a "light sport" aircraft and flown on a "sport pilot license" (which is much easier to get than a full regular pilot license) AND an exemption from the NHTSA to use lightweight motorcycle tires and a lightweight polycarbonate windscreen to keep weight down instead of the heavier automobile tires and safety glass windscreen normally required on cars.

It may not be shipping to customers yet but they have shown actual production-intent models as part of their flight testing and drive testing.

I cant find details of just what the kernel change was but it seems like the hardware feature is a feature to detect that the laptop is undergoing a sudden shock and shut off the hard disk (move the heads out of the way) to prevent damage to the platters.

All 3 commercial networks as well as the ABC (government owned station) air cartoons on various of their channels on Saturday Morning (and at other times of the day/week for that matter)

Heck, its 5:30pm here and one network is airing an episode of Scooby Doo...

In places like Manhattan, the local authority charges parking taxes which the hotels then have to pass on to the customer.

I ran Gentoo for a while and my system actually got a little tiny bit faster over time as big heavy packages got rebuilt with newer GCC versions that optimized the package better than the last GCC version did.

Of course that didn't make up for the fact that it could take the best part of 3 days or more for the ancient Pentium 4 I was running it on to do a full emerge pass if certain larger packages all happened to be updated at once.

Most of the arguments about population density/demand/etc that apply to high speed rail in Japan (or more to the point in Europe) would very much apply to a super-fast train linking, say, Grand Central Terminal in NYC to, say, Union station in Washington DC.

I did a 6 month student internship with Motorola software development (basically 6 months of full time work that counted towards my degree) and I can tell you that phones being in development for a year or more isn't unusual for the industry, especially if its totally new hardware rather than a variant of existing hardware. Plus, remember that these guys are voulnteers and not doing this fulll time.

As for the CPU choice, it has been chosen so that the Neo900 can be backwards compatible with the N900. Plus, its actually possible to GET this CPU wheras you cant even get Qualcomm parts (and the info you need to actually use them) unless you are really big and well established.

The Neo900 isn't meant to compete with the Galaxy S or iPhone, its meant to be a phone that takes all the good things about the N900 (physical keyboard, full Linux/X setup, openness) and make it better (faster CPU, more memory, better cellular radio, better WiFi, better Bluetooth, NFC support, more security, more control over the hardware)

Disclaimer:I own a N900 (and in fact am typing this reply on it) and would sign up for a Neo900 preorder if I could afford it. I am also involved in reverse engineering and code work for the N900 and Neo900.

For example, if eBay no longer owns PayPal (or has any connection to it) they no longer have the incentive to force people to accept it (or like they did in Australia before they got in trouble for it, make PayPal the only method of payment).

Also maybe this will impact the ability of eBay to do certain things they do now like holding money from an eBay auction instead of releasing it to the seller straight away.

If you want a phone that doesn't lock you into proprietary crap-ware, wait for the Neo900. Or buy a used N900.

You want an N900 or its successor, the Neo900 (which is basically a community-developed board designed to go into an N900 case with a faster CPU, better cellular modem and some other hardware improvements) Runs full linux (including X) and is close to the most hackable phone available.

N900 is available now if you look online for a second hand model and Neo900 is currently at the advanced prototype stage.

At the last few airports I flew out of, they have one way doors designed to stop anyone walking the wrong way back into the secured area (the only way into the secured area is through the security screening)
Why Sydney doesn't have the same thing baffles me.