This is the exact reason why it's often worthwhile to skip the OEM in-dash system (if your car manufacturer is nice enough to treat it like an upgrade rather than a standard issue) and install an aftermarket audio system instead. No only do you typically get better audio quality and features from a 3rd party aftermarket system, but such systems typically are a lot easier to update. OEM in-dash receivers are often a few years behind all the aftermarket systems in terms of features, anyway.

There's a detailed list of downed datacenters as well as a good discussion of status over at webhostingtalk: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1205042
Per the topic, the following locations are experiencing or have experienced outages:

• 75 Broad Street
• 33 Whitehall
• nLayer at 882 3rd Ave
• Voxel/Internap at 111 8th Avenue
• XO, nLayer, Cogent, Verizon, Sidera Networks and AT&T at 882 3rd Ave
• 121 Varick

Tom's Hardware posted a similar sort of analysis a few weeks ago: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-stutter-crossfire,2995.html

I don't believe the FUD. There's a big difference between "seeming lack of", and actual "lack of". Microsoft has simply not discussed .NET support. Hopefully the discussions at //build/ will elucidate Microsoft's plans and resolve any uncertainty.

Aye! Protoss, all the way!
But in all seriousness...as a C# developer, I've spent the morning despairing about Windows 8's seeming lack of .NET support. This news is a small, but welcome, glimmer of hope. Kudos to Xamarin for striving to give .NET the platform support and reach that Microsoft never gave.

...this is one of the saner things I've heard from Sony in a while now. 3D remains a special medium, to be used tastefully for very specific entertainment works, not for haphazard application to every form of media on the face of the planet.

On the California Form 540, tax-payers are already required to report purchases from online retailers for which they (the taxpayer) has not already paid sales tax. The sales tax then gets collected on tax day instead of at the time of purchase. As a California resident, I'm very much against any additional taxes at this time (especially ones that seeming place an undue burden on flourishing business), but is this new law actually imposing any new tax that isn't collected already?

Microsoft already snatched the "BITS" acronym to refer to the "background intelligent transfer service" used by Windows Update and other services. Hopefully there won't be any unnecessary confusion or ambiguity.

I don't know anyone who regularly plugs a USB keyboard into their console for any reason. Likewise, "typing" out a long number of string of characters using a controller seems exceptionally cumbersome. Also, having a serial code remains yet another way Sony can tie a specific game license to a specific console. Really, I don't see any way this could be convenient nor benefit gamers.

I, for one, do NOT welcome our cloud-based overlords.