It's easy to get USB support working in Kubuntu. Credit goes to David Grant for graciously posting the instructions on his blog at http://www.davidgrant.ca/virtualbox_usb_windows_xp_guest_ubuntu_hardy

Here's a summary of what you need to do:
1) Use the closed-source version of VirtualBox. Download it directly from Sun, do not use the version in the Ubuntu repositories.
2) Find out what the vbox users group id is with the command grep vbox /etc/group
3) Set up the /proc/bus/usb interface by adding the following lines to /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh (after the section where /proc is mounted). Replace with the group id you found in step 2:
#for hardy:
domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=,devmode=664
#for intrepid:
domount usbfs "" /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=,devmode=664

The author's point was that he could get a signed cert the says mozilla.org.

But if the author doesn't own the domain mozilla.org, the user is still going to get a warning in their browser about the domain mismatch between the cert and the domain visited. How is this any more dangerous than a regular self-signed cert? In this case the evildoer still doesn't control the domain, even though he or she has a renegade cert for it.

The Arstechnica article doesn't mention Linux support, but given Broadcom's history with Linux and their 802.11g chips, I would say that there will be a long wait for working Linux drivers. I'd consider Broadcom the third worst 802.11x chip maker for Linux. Better than Marvell or TI, but not by much. For now your best best for working wireless devices in Linux are Intel, Atheros and Ralink based devices.

Because digging a well is obviously much more convenient.
And in many places, digging a well in prohibited. At least Colorado and other parts of the US West. Water rights are a major problem here; Colorado state law doesn't even allow you to collect water which runs off your roof: http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.18/a-good-idea-2013-if-you-can-get-away-with-it

So does the latest Moonlight version work with the Netflix "Watch Instantly" feature? If not then this isn't a very interesting announcement.

FYI - Nero CD Speed version 4.7.7.16 runs fine in Linux under recent versions of Wine. The newer version (callled Disc Speed, not CD Speed) does not work under Wine.

I've used it with two different Liteon SATA drives: a Liteon 20A3S and a Liteon 20A1L. Both of these drives (and I believe, Plextors) support scanning for jitter. When you run CDSpeed, the test you want is the Disc Quality tab. Click Advanced and then check the DVD Jitter checkbox. This test will give a good an indication of the quality of the disc.

In my experience, Verbatim Datalife Plus (media code: MCC) are really good discs. CMC Magnetics media vary widely, some are okay, others are garbage.