This already exists in Google Maps. Just plan your route, click the Send To button at the top left, and select GPS. There are half a dozen supported manufacturers.

they don't want to negotiate with mobile networks in every country. international kindles still have AT&T sim cards, the extra £s are to cover the roaming charges.

US kindles pay a surcharge to download abroad

and then you get so-called slashdotphiles, who think they can hear artifacts in the lossy story compression.

let's see how you fare in a double blind test

I thought we were drumming up support for another try....

Us parents live in terror of cases like the recent one where two children were taken by Social Services, on the basis that one had been violently shaken. Some years later, the state was forced to confirm that the child was in fact suffering from a rare illness and had never been shaken... but the real parents are still unable to even see their children, since the Social Services (SS?) decided the children were now too settled with their foster parents.

I'd settle for 24 hours surveillance if it meant the state not taking my children over a stupid "guilty-until-proven-innocent" screw up.

A friend of mine was working in a chain hardware store, inside a large shopping mall, when they discovered someone had stolen a 10 foot ladder on a busy Saturday lunchtime. It's really just about having the balls for it.

The same company's R&D effort produced the VW 1l

Young people mostly don't use Twitter - it's just older people desperately trying to be cool. A perfect market for this book.

Generally fair? Every thing costs different in different places. Even the really big stuff, rent, food, council tax, etc. It all varies by where you live.

It costs me £3.5k/year to get a train two stops to work (in London). How about the next time I visit Scotland (or the Isle of Wight, just 50 miles away) a similar journey would be more than 50 times cheaper.

Petrol costs vary by up to 50% depending where you buy it (800% if you discount the tax).

A pint of beer costs 4 times as much in some places.

You try getting a parcel delivered to the Outer Hebrides.

Broadband is exactly the same. No reason you should pay the same amount to be put on the end of a 10 mile wire to the guy who's got dozens of cables running down his street anyway.

It's closer to the other way around; ARM is the mostly widely used 32 bit architecture, and accounts for more than 75% of all 32 bit processors sold.

Really, the entire world has been forced onto the ARM monoculture (except perhaps for a few x86s at the high end).

If you owned goggle.com, this would be a good way to drive some free traffic

actually even Honda has a truck too:
http://automobiles.honda.com/ridgeline/
(2 tonnes, 15mpg)

The student was "known to the security officer" as a problem , and had "negative contacts" with the administrators in the past.

They track our kids with biometrics, cctv, and published (or lost) databases of every sneeze. Every kid in a school is going to be a problem child soon. And you're still going to get kids acting up in class, and stupid, incompetent teachers and other officials. They're giving the hard-working, sane majority a very bad name.

Everyone's guilty, citizen. All that remains is to determine the nature of your guilt.

Laptops in particular often have slow hard drives. Antivirus slows them further. You're probably waiting for the disk all the time.

It's often compounded in a business environment by other disk access apps (auditing etc).

I know on my laptop, lauching firefox involves McAfee scanning Firefox, then Centennial scanning Firefox, then McAfee scanning Centennial, then McAfee scanning Firefox again.

there is no open source software that can easily view YouTube content

http://www.getmiro.com/

works like a dream, on any platform

(You are right on all the other points)