I don't live in China so I haven't had a chance to test this, but I would guess Tor/Onion is more or less the ideal way of keeping a stable connection out of China. Just run a private exit node outside China. Tor change the tunnel connections regularly to obscure it's existence.

My Nokia N73 from back in 2006 could do that and that was not the first Symbian S60 based device.

In the case of Thailand - sucking might very well be part of the reason.

Even standard Android can do this. Some of the pre-installed applications will be quite useless really, but most of core functionality will work quite fine without a Google account.

While I admit I haven't tried, it should be possible to run an Android phone without ever signing into Google - indeed without a Google account whatsoever. The email application support POP, IMAP or Exchange, the contacts can be synced with SyncML or Exchange (and a few other options I am sure), applications can be sideloaded, IM+ does a pretty good job with Jabber etc. Surely it would make it somewhat more complicated but I am quite sure it is possible.

In other words - Google offer a way for people to run the smart phone without any knowledge about servers and with an extremely simple setup (enter your google account once), but it is in no way forced upon you - so I think it's actually quite acceptable.

In reality I think that Google+ biggest problem is that it is only cool in an extremely nerdy sort of way. Sure, I am not surprised that just about everybody here would prefer Google+ to Facebook, but then again - everybody here also would prefer Linux over Windows, Java over PHP, Computer over Girlfriend etc. A simple fact is, while it can be annoying as hell, Facebook is kinda cool and until Google+ become cooler than Facebook it will not take off.

C'mon - Google+ - read it out loud - it sounds like some laundry detergent.

Lesbian porn is the only exception I can think of :)

Similar specs - except the screen resolution - the Archos 70 is 800 × 480 whereas the Nook Color is 1024 x 600.

I know the original post said GPS and Camera, but apart from those two the perfect bet would be a hacked Nook Color :) List price of USD 249 but was sold on eBay for 199 and it runs Android 2.1 (eclair), 2.2 (Froyo) and 2.3 (Gingerbread) just fine and flash 10.2 in the last two of these.

Well - here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Errors_in_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia

Hey - what if it was the other way around? This is silly. The original could have been a European picture with 3 white guys and it order to fit American political correctness a black had to be edited into the picture. Sigh!

Simple fact is - while America have a considerable black population in central or Northern Europe they do NOT, so seeing a black guy at a business meeting is rare. That is not racism but a simple result of very few black people living there.

While not quite as bad as this - I had the battery on a 12 month old iPAQ expand to double size - enough to break the cover. That in itself is not interesting at all. What IS interesting however is that I actually thought HP would be interested in this (in order to prevent this from happening) but they were not - not at all. I contacted the local HP support, I wrote letters, faxes and emails - with absolutely zero reaction except I could buy a new battery if I wanted. They didn't attempt to stop me from talking - they simply weren't interested at all.

Pics are here: ipaq pics

While this one didn't explode it's definitely a faulty battery (the fault happened over a day or two) and I reckon it could easily have caused some damage to the surroundings if only it had been a tad more violent.

Why not use subversion? Files will be accessible using a subversion client (including log + history), as webdav (only current version) and through a standard browser (read-only).

And this story was posted to /. why?

He should just have replied the "babes" that approach him instead of saying: "sorry, haven't got time right now, I am posting a question on /. about how to pick up woman".