Cordova's API is the spec. When you target Cordova's API, you're targeting what will eventually be native browser APIs. Have a look here for more info: http://phonegap.com/2012/05/09/phonegap-beliefs-goals-and-philosophy/

Wow your videos hit a bit too close to home for me! I drive down that road in your first video all the time. I've also been considering getting a dashcam for the same reason you have one. My only concern is finding one that doesn't require a lot of fuss. I'm looking for something that auto-activates when the car is on and shuts itself off when the car is off. Ideally it'd roll over the video too, only keeping a memory of the last X hours. That way I only have to do anything with the dashcam when I actually want to permanently archive some video when something notable happens.

It's not a nearby "solar system." The term Solar System is a proper noun, not a generic term. It's a nearby planetary system. I wish people (especially journalists) would stop getting this wrong.

The term "Solar System" is a proper noun, not a generic term. The term the article was looking for is "planetary system."

"Rate hike! Rate hike! Tra, la, la!"
- Palmer, Final Fantasy 7. Steve Ballmer's alter ego.

Perhaps they don't bother because the cost of entering an arms race would be too high. If any major site were to block adblock users, you would expect the plugin to quickly route around their attempts.

If I wanted to sabotage ad blockers, I'd just host my ads from the same servers as my content, since ad blockers don't really do anything aside from block ad servers. How would you route around that?

All ad blockers do is block common ad servers. They don't generally work on websites where the ads are hosted on the same server as the content because if the content and the ads are both coming from the same server then there's no reliable way to distinguish between the content you requested and the content you didn't.

Sometimes it can be done on a case by case basis by visibly blocking out regions of the page where ads normally appear, but that too can be easily thwarted by randomizing the placement of the ads.

All things considered, preventing ad blockers from working properly is far from impossible. It's trivially easy.

Yep, exactly. Preventing ad block from working is quite easy to do. Most sites don't bother because only a small minority does it and that small minority tends to be disproportionately made up of the kooky anti-consumerist crowd anyway, who aren't worth advertising to due to their hatred of advertising in general. If ad blocking ever went mainstream you'd see more sites tying content to ads explicitly.

I don't know about anyone else, but I think that the size of the Nexus 4 is too big at 4.7". I was hoping for a 4" to 4.3" screen, but Google have really pushed for that extra big handset.

Glad I'm not the only one.

To me it's just silly to call a 4.7" phone the Nexus 4. They should round to the closest whole number and call it the Nexus 5 instead.

How many of those articles are about vapid pop culture topics, like Pokemon or Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

What you find vapid, millions of other people find notable.

You *still* believe pirating is stealing, even after spending time on slashdot?

(If you didn't mean to say loot, that's cool, we all make mistakes, just say so)

Tell people here that you use GPL-licensed code in a closed-source product and see how fast you'll be accused of stealing.

Pirating a song has no commercial profit motive. Violating the GPL (in most cases) does.

When are we going to get the converse? If you don't use the service, you don't have to pay for the service?

That would defeat the whole purpose of taxation. If the people who benefit from the service could afford the service to begin with, we wouldn't need to levy a tax to fund it. Those who needed the service would just pay for directly.

No, this is a problem with Apple.

You're right that Apple should be free to censor their app store however they want.

But everyone in this thread seems to be ignoring the fact that users should be free to install whatever apps they want on their device. Not permitting users the ability to sideload apps is the real censorship that we should be raging against.