I get 3% interest on my checking account for doing a few things, mainly using my debit card enough. Much higher than I can get in a savings account.
The maximum balance you can earn interest on is $15k though.

Pretty much the only phones you can download from Google's repos and build for are the Nexus phones. Anything else and there's no guarantee you'll ever be able to rebuild from source.
Even then, all officially supported devices require binary blobs to run.

Guess we better all switch to Ada...

Are you talking about an existing "Android Perl" app that requires root permissions? Do you have a link?
I don't see why you'd need root access. You can download one of the terminal emulator apps and run anything within the context of the app.
You may need to figure out how to get it compiled, though.

Why do you need embedded systems on the main network? That just seems like an unnecessary security risk.
I also work with embedded systems, but they are all connected via secondary network cards. They should at least be put behind an encrypted tunnel (ssh would do).

Flash supports hardware accelerated video, while Silverlight does not (at least not with Netflix). So Flash's performance is better for the one useful things that uses Silverlight. Silverlight 5 is supposed to have hardware accelerated video, but it doesn't work by default. Anyone know of any workarounds?

I was under the impression that all of the applications to the UN were being done by President Abbas of Fatah. Of course there are plenty of things you could criticize Fatah about as well.

I just tried, it can't post updates to social networks or set up reminders/appointments. And the voice recognition still isn't that great. Hopefully this motivates Google to improve this.
Also, Siri has access to Wolfram Alpha, which has some natural language abilities that Google lacks.

Chrome has a similar bug (at least I've experienced it in the dev version, possibly the beta version as well). Chrome was claiming my browser was at the latest version, despite being months out of date.
I can't seem to find a page that lists the latest version of Chrome, so I have no idea if my browser is up to date now or not. Does one exist?

That's not what the author of the article thinks:
"My understanding is that the Kindle OS was built on top of some version of Android prior to 2.2"
So it's at least two versions behind the latest open source release.

Google is (apparently schools don't have to pay).
I know my former school is now using Docs to let students easily collaborate with each other and give their teachers easy access for grading.

I can agree with this, daylight savings time always seems to confuse people.
People will say a meeting is at 2PM EST but expect you to be there 2PM EDT.

But it doesn't work everywhere. In several programs (UltraEdit, Notepad++, Foxit PDF Reader) Ctrl+F bring up the find dialog while F3 only functions as "Find Next".

Although you can't use Google+ with a Google Apps (paid or free) account. You also can't IM AIM contacts from Google Talk like regular GMail users can. I think there are a couple other things regular GMail users can do that Apps users can't as well.

Not being able to link objects under GPL with proprietary objects is the whole point of the LGPL.