These companies don't care about talent. I bet the Palm division has a bunch of attractive patents related to touchscreen interfaces: the first Palm pilot was released in 1996. Honestly patents are worth so much these days that I doubt that HP would be willing to sell them.

Agreed, it's a perfectly fine language for plenty of things like business applications. If you want to build operating systems or first person shooters, you won't be using .Net or Java, that's just not what they're for.

Thanks for the tip, I'll keep an eye on the twitter feed. $50 for the Obi110 with two ports, I'd totally go for that.

With the right device you don't even need a SIP provider. I'm waiting for the OBi 100 to be released (April 2011 for only $45), this is the first device that can talk directly to Google Voice without an intermediary SIP provider. Their currently available OBi 110 apparently has the same feature, it's just more than I'm willing to pay.

Is that you, Garrison Keillor?

Small change to this: We store this information an indefinite amount of time for reasons even we don’t fully understand.

I would say this instead, which is probably closer to the truth: "We store this information an indefinite amount of time because, well, disk space is cheap."

Or if you have Linux web hosting, just use SSH tunneling . You're already paying for web hosting, might as well get more out of it.

Whoops, mod me down to oblivion please. I didn't bother reading the article.

This is way beyond privacy - after all, how do they get your web browsing history? Not from your provider, they don't log every DNS request, but by breaking into your home and cloning your hard drive.

Yeah, you have a valid point but the framers of the constitution disagreed with you - and things were pretty rural back then, I'm sure it was PITA to deliver mail in the late 1700's.

So now that companies have stopped using BPA...

I'm pretty sure that canned food companies haven't stopped using it .

You can watch the video on akihabaranews

Regarding (1), it's definitely possible to hide photos tagged of you from everyone except yourself. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, but that's my current setting.

It might serve as a wake-up call to people who share too much publicly.

So I'm a software developer, in my early 30's, pretty tech-savy. It took me about 45 minutes (a long time, I think) digging around Facebook's privacy settings to properly hide everything. Not only do you have to go under "Privacy", but also "Application Settings" - would the average user know to do that? Apparently "Group" privacy settings are under applications??? Those settings are complicated And even now I can't hide 1) my friends list from the public 2) my pages from the public. So my point is it's hard to NOT share too much publicly with Facebook.

did you just post your phone number to Slashdot????