I agree.

Maybe it's possible to hack our own solution... but can we do it slickly and in a small form factor?

A micro usb to USB host adapter does a few of those.

Would it be possible to pair a netbook that will take the PixelQi screen hack, add a touch screen and rework the whole thing into a tablet that isn't bulky?

Seeing as you can get android tablets for $60 these days and many of us own a spare droid, can't we engineer our own solution out of an app?

Is there a way to make it less smash& grabbable though?

Also a factor:

Sounds like the cigarette lighter "accessory socket" is a permanent live, rather than switched live like they used to be.

So instead of coming on and off with the ignition, it's permanently on meaning the camera needs to be unplugged when not in use.

The trick is now finding a switched live to hardwire into.

By use of the word 'friendly' I think what the OP is looking for is a manufacturer who have invested in linux and early on.
Perhaps a dev working on kernel patches, something like that.

Linux Foundation Platinum members: HP, Fujitsu, IBM (IBM), Intel (INTC), NEC, Oracle (ORCL), Qualcomm (QCOM), Samsung.

This is something I know a little bit about having travelled through many South American cities especially. One was so bad ai felt sick with a metallic taste after 20 minutes walking from home.

Here's a few tips I've learnt.

1) There is a kickstarter project for a blueooth device that logs air quality in various metrics

2) I don't know where I read this but I heard the pollution drops off quickly at less than 30m from the road

3) Cars soak up more pollution than bicycles - so change your air filter. In fact, where can we buy carbon activated filter material for a custom upgrade to squeeze into our cars?

4) I wore a full gas mask on a few car journeys. It can make the difference between getting out of your car feeling like yoiu've run a marathon and getting out feeling just a bit cramped. It looks silly but why not try it to confirm to yourself if there's a problem worth working on that "pollen" filter?

5) You can get slimmer masks designed for cyclists. I mention this on my blog. Filtering is a compilcated business. I've found the main thing is to filter those particulates including the rubber off the tyres. I'm not too sure about the gasses. These have an effect but it seems less immediate to me.

6) You can get plants to filter air in your home. I'd like to see a air con system intregrating such a system on a rooftop. There was a Slashdot article on this.

7) You can get a 12v airfilter to go on your passenger seat but it isn't cheap and it works by recycling the air rather than catching it on the way in

8) Looking at truckers forums I've noticed this is definately a big problem that is killing people. This is totally unneccessary. I hope we can help them with cabin filters?

C'mon with the IronSky jokes already,
  what an awful film that was

If politics changed anything they'd ban it.
Can it be made any clearer to terrorists and extremists that there is no room for change within the system.

Let's face it, this is not an isolated case of reduced advanced features with Google.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

We also don't have:

- booleen search of even a basic level
- or ability to priortise each search term
- ability for phrase search: Results for separate terms will also be displayed. Some results contain none of the words in the phrase you searched for (They don't look like adverts either - I don't understand)

Yet there's the patent on PageRank so the competition is rubbish?

Operators are useful:
http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html
but those more advanced abilities don't seem to mesh so well with the automagic aspect of Google.

The reason we all started using Google in the first place was that we found it was the only way we could find things without all the spam. We were able to find the results we were looking for.
Google is catering better to beginners and that is good. This is a good example of that.
Unfortunately it seems the core demographic of the nerd who knows what they are doing is being misserved. Also I think, possibly a bit sidetracked from the core ability of Google as a search company. Sidetracked?

What is the alternative? I use DuckDuckGo regularly but often fall back to Google. I think the edge there could be PageRank and manual result checking.

Any stock investors out there? Is a company sidetracked from it's core abilities often a sign of a company about to take a plunge? I've seen it before but Amazon did well.

They should be looking at the preservation technique rather than vaccination per sec.

I'd like an option to be able to drive to a location and get a vaccine fresh and verified without the use of preservatives.

I travel for work so I've had a lot of injections for visas. I take the shots in the arm without knowing whether it's formaldahyde, mercury or another technique used to preserve the virus.
When I get to work I have to undergo a lot of paperwork to handle formaldehyde in dilute form.

Looking at the number of vaccinations that could be taken in theory it can run into hundreds. As per electromagnetic radio interacting with the human nervous electromagnetic system, no cumulative effect is thought to be there.

Why not some labelling system so we can track what is going in our bodies. That way we can see if the amount is negligable - how does it compare to leaching from mercury fillings for example?

Looks like a framing to me.

I'm supposed to believe that the FBI and an IT shop don't know how to clean BIOS persistent spyware and that there is no motive from the agent to change the principle at his kids school.

Of course there's nothing conclusive here but I would have thrown it out of court straight away because of the circumstances.

I prefer to think that the way the universe is is the way the universe is and that we just tend to see patterns in it because we are broken and need to change our perspective to that where the pattern is the default.

Changing maths to a base system on prime numbers doesn't work apparently. I don't know why.

$5 in BTC says Slashdot can do it ;)

Go with it!

- Allow people to walk in with their own hard drive. Plug in by USB and download directly to it, no knowledge encrypted form via a connection that won't involve harassment (VPN, copper pair to Data Centre, I'm sure Slashdotters can elaborate), and possibly even setup so the data is "owned" by the people downloading it, if that's possible, like a shell. You could have a fee to deposit your drive, a fee to retrieve it and a fee to store it. You have to get those 3 fees balanced reasonable yet at the right rate so people treat it with respect.

- Rent 3D displays and other expensive 5 minute wonder gaming equipment no one can (should) be able to afford. When not being sold, allow people to play with them in store for a small fee

- act as a porn shop for people's gadgets that they no longer need, then rent them out to people as part of the agreement!

- come to some sort of agreement with Valve and Steam? Let people play in store? I'm sure this was covered before somewhere...

Solution: No words in the dictionary can be trademarked.
Possible further problem: Corruption in the dictionary companies
Further solution: Wikipedia/democratic voting on words.

Although it wuold create a 2 tier system I really think that allowing anyone to cache & store a page for future reference and possible later use as expert witness,
  should be an excellent non-intrusive revenue stream for the Internet Archive.

It's such a useful project.
I wish I was able to pay to make sure that I can make a record of a page when I notice something interesting.

"Using a web site I decoded my boarding pass for my upcoming trip"

Which website? Just a standard barcode decode?