Seriously? Is a well designed file system error handling routine worth 2x - 5x premium you pay to use sparc? considering you could create redundant hosts and multipath solutions with the savings.

Everyone thought I was insane when I said that the HP laptop keyboard was made by chinese torture masters.

If you RTFA, you would have determined that the flight control system is not infected, and the the systems that are in question are ancillary information systems. Think of a monitor with google maps...

The reason they use removable HDD's is probably so they can model the necessary mission data offsite, and then "replay" it at mission time.

Did you / have you brought any legal actions for the breach of rights committed in the pursuit and eventual arrest of you? Do you feel the violations were similar to ones now being taken against "terrorists"?

IBM was a Services and Software company with a personal PC division that was only known for one thing (thinkpads). They had to sell of the thinkpad name to sweeten the turd that was IBM's desktop line.

HP is not in the same position. HP is known as a consumer electronics company, and is trying to enter the software / services business.

Seems like an odd blogpost, bordering on a paid advertisement. I owned a Pre for 2 years, and never saw squat from bloggers on it. Now the new touchpad is out someone decides to write a review of a 1.5 y/o device???? Meh.

What is it with these great projects having a midlife crisis? Amarok did the same kind of thing by completely dumping the codebase in the name of "new" and basically forced the userbase to find a new project. Now Mozilla has basically said that they don't want to pay any attention to the people who have MONEY to pay for the things they are developing. Seems like a really short sighted, arrogant approach. I predict in 2 years time Firefox will have bleed all of their users to chrome / IE and will no longer be receiving corporate donations.

I guess if your going for an emotional response, go big.

You handed you child your phone, unattended I'm assuming since it seems the child was killing and slaying long enough to learn the controls to the game. Imagine what you child could have been exposed to if they clicked on the evil internet icon...

I have an Epic 4g, and I don't see the NASCAR and other sprint crap-ware running on the phone. Sure it's part of the image, and I can't delete them, but in my daily phone usage, they are completely unnoticeable. Of course, I took a day to figure out how to rebuild the "home" pages and organize things, but since then I haven't been bothered by any of the default crap.

I think this issue is just more FUD from the iPhone fanbois, since their mighty Apple controls their every action and thought. Not to mention, if the pre-loaded crap really bugs you, Sprint offers a Nexus with pure Android...

This isn't as annoying as the carriers removing tethering or removing basic functions of the phone in order to upsell other services. In that case I would definitely be running the nexus (even thought I can't stand softkeys) or looking for a new rom for the Epic.

You should totally be looking to do FORTRAN on z/VM... It's the only way you will be able to handle the "millions" of accounts you will be creating to pump your own image.

Isn't Facebook's entire valuation based on violating user privacy? The ad piece of the business probably pales in comparison to being able to "accidentally" expose thoroughly mined and indexed personal information. It is probably the same thing for Zygna, the world's highest grossing "GAME" company, slowly recycling Pavlov's finest experiments.

Don't like 3D, wait for the blu-ray. Added advantages, thousands of dollars saved on concessions.

What is it with projects having to complete change the way they do things when they decide to "clean up" the code? I understand the need to make your mark on a project, but this is like the Amarok rewrite disaster. I wonder if it is even possible to rewrite something while retaining the "core values." Looking at the latest flop of Hollywood remakes, it seems a universal issue.

Maybe as a society we are becoming less capable, living up to the society that was portrayed in Idiocracy....

Wow. Just nuclear energy is unsafe? What about windmills with poorly designed brakes? What about solar panel manufacturing? I'm sure that they are using wheat glutten and pony poo.

Nothing is safe. so do you propose we all dig holes in the ground and bury ourselves? We've tried analysis paralysis and have nothing to show for it. Time to put some nukes online, get rid of the Coal / Gas / Diesel burners and fix the immediate climate issues. And no, I'm not talking about warming cooling changing. I'm talking about my desire to breath.

I also think that the inherit nature of engineers to "troubleshoot" the problem instead of switching to "survival" mode will be called out. I wonder how long it took the onsite teams to argue with management to determine that things were beyond recovery and that they needed to take "heroic" / destructive measure to prevent a disaster.

It is the same thing in IT projects - debug / rebuild... Or aircraft operations during instrument failures - debug instruments / put plane in fail-safe...

Many examples. Same conclusions, stop wasting time on debugging failures and get back to a "stable" state.