Good point. Correct it to "stick it for when the sun don't shine".

SoylentNews is people. Like Slashdot, SoylentNews runs Slash software. But unlike Slashdot, SoylentNews is secure and Unicode-capable.

That would require Slashdot to switch to an ad network that supports HTTPS, such as Google AdSense. Which others do?

But if your site is behind a CDN proxy and highly cacheable, then you can probably get away with cheap hosting like WebFaction or something.

Lack of support for EOL'd web browsers is one roadblock for affordable HTTPS hosting. The other is that many major ad networks lack support for HTTPS, leading web browsers to block the ads as "mixed content." (AdSense added HTTPS support only a year ago.) And this is why Slashdot is among sites that redirect non-subscribers from HTTPS to HTTP because they subcontract advertising.

Have an Amish family live in your house for a year. Then that family can plead freedom of religion, as Amishism forbids connection to public utilities.

"Are you generating more solar power than you can use? We'll give you somewhere to stick it when the sun don't shine." That'll go over nicely. :p

In that case, the problem with Android compared to Windows (x86 and x86-64 versions) is that it lacks a stable driver ABI that would let the user carry the handset manufacturer's driver modules forward from one version of Android to the next.

I thought AT&T and T-Mobile weren't allowed to ban devices per the GSM license, and Verizon was subject to open application and device requirements on its 700 MHz allocation. Sprint might but it's got a pile of MVNOs anyway.

"Lead" can be spelled either way, though "lede" was popular in the days of hot metal typesetting to distinguish it from the metal whose symbol is Pb. It derives from "lead paragraph", meaning the paragraph that leads an inverted-pyramid news story.

Ally Bank used to be GMAC, the financial services division of GM. It began in 1919 by offering loans on new GM cars. In 1985 it expanded into mortgages, and in 2000 it became an online retail bank.

So if you carry a Raspberry Pi, what device would you use while riding the bus? A single device that becomes a desktop-like computer when docked to a keyboard and monitor and a mobile device while a passenger in a vehicle has the advantage over a Raspberry Pi that the user isn't shut out for the duration of a transit ride to or from work or wherever.

I've read stories of Facebook putting up a "roadblock" screen where it won't let the user log in unless the user provides a phone number capable of receiving text messages and not shared with any other Facebook user. This excludes people on land lines and people who share a cell phone with someone else.

Are the people who create an empty shell of a Google+ profile the same kinds of people who created a Facebook account just for FarmVille, Spotify (when it required one), Answers.com (when it required one), or The Huffington Post's comments section (which still requires one)?

Before Keep I used ColorNote, which came on my Archos 43, an old iPod touch-like device running AOSP. And I still use ColorNote on my first-generation Nexus 7.