Why? I don't see a reason behind it. Sure it'd have been NICE if they spoke up sooner, but perhaps they didn't duplicate this glitch in the lab until now. I know personally I have no problem with the battery on my iPhone4S or iPad2 both running iOS5. You ever take your car to the dealer for a problem and have them not duplicate it, same deal.

DNS-and-BIND: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens#Plutonium_power_source

To quote the article: ASA's complete environmental impact study estimated that, in the worst case (with an acute angle of entry in which Cassini would gradually burn up), a significant fraction of the 32.7 kg[4] of plutonium-238 inside the RTGs would have been dispersed into the Earth's atmosphere so that up to five billion people (i.e. the entire terrestrial population) could have been exposed, causing up to an estimated 5,000 additional cancer deaths[21] (0.0005 per cent, i.e. a fraction 0.000005, of 1 billion cancer deaths expected anyway from other causes; the product is incorrectly calculated elsewhere[22] as 500,000 deaths), but the odds against that happening were more than 1 million to one.

In other words, there was a 1 million to 1 chance that the space craft might have caused an additional 5000 deaths due to radiation. NOT the 10% you came up with. iirc from the news at the time, a malfunction of the space craft in most probable consequences could have resulted in a small population receiving about what you'd get from one X-ray as the PU-238 ball would mostly just fall through the atmosphere.

Does Anon realize that retaliation legitimises the captures of those people? I mean, as I see it, if there was a shred of doubt before that these people were part of Anon, retaliation just advertised that the belief was correct and those people are guilty of being part of the organization... I'm all about pointing out corruption and opening up closed doors when there are problems behind them, but keep getting sloppy like this Anon and it's going to be hard to find supporters in the future.

If stopping the use of Petroleum-based plastic frames is the goal to making glasses greener, then I've been pioneering this approach for a while... I hate plastic frames, It's been metal ones for me since 8th grade. Plastic frames snap. Metal frames bend and can be bent back.

Wow, I GOTTA jailbreak mine so I can get iSSH! oh, wait, that's right, I've got TouchTerm which looks quite a bit better.

And yes, I know there are other reasons to Jailbreak, but none have really been a big deal to me. Notifications and lock screen info are the only two reasons that persuade me enough to do it and well, they're part of iOS5. So, nothing to see here, moving along.

Seriously, this is much cheaper than some of the Wrist borne Chronographs... Tag Heuer look out!

Seriously though, I mean, sure you'll need a few more electronics and such to get it to show time, but over all, it wouldn't be a stretch to have a fully functional wall clock run off of atomic precision. Even better yet, it should have a SoC that'll hook it to your wifi network and advertise the time to anything in the area, and be accessible as part of the ntp pool.I know entire data centers that would be happy with something like that as a 1/2 U server, and I'm guessing it won't add much over and above this price, though someone will charge a premium for it anyway.

Seriously, I've been running iOS 4.x on my 3G iPhone since it was released. 4.0 kinda sucked... but 4.2.1 seems pretty stable and much faster than the other 4.x variants. Version 4.0 was released June 21, 2010... that's almost a full year ago. If you haven't upgraded to 4.x yet, you've either decided long ago you're not going to, or you're living under a rock.

Anyone know what the Return on Investment is for this? I mean, Beside the intangible "We're saving the earth" publicity... Sure they can sell some of it back to power companies, and perhaps gain some carbon credits... but I'm sure they'll also use it as power for a server farm. I have to believe there's some amount of time this pays for itself with any of those options, but the article is a bit light on those details.

The wooden looking Labyrinth game that came out years ago on the iPhone/iPod Touch did this with just the accelerometers. It's a really cool in game effect, and I'm glad they made the change to use the cameras, but without some API worked into the next OS release, this seems to not be too useful.

Also, what's the CPU load with this running? Is it the kind of thing that takes a lot of processing power, or is it something that can be done in the background of a game?

So what can your $200 laptop beat my $500 tablet at?

Web surfing? I don't know, the tablet interface with it's ability to just click, rescale, scroll and everything without having to use a mouse is quite an upgrade personally.
Gaming? You mean, you have a $200 laptop with a good graphics card in it? I'm pretty sure an iPad 2 or Tegra 2 powered tablet could blow the socks off your $200 intel integrated graphics card.
Size? I think the tablet's gonna win, unless you attached a brick to the back of it. 1/4"-1/2" thick tablet wins every time. Especially when I'm in a cramped coach seat flying for 6 hours and can't open the laptop up all the way because the screen hits the seat in front of me.
Battery Life? We're talking about a $200 laptop here... not a netbook. And even then try getting 10 hours of good use out of a netbook or laptop.

And who makes a New, powerful $200 laptop in the first place?

Face it, There are cases for each item. They're not meant for the same tasks. We're trying to compare apples and oranges here and I'm starting to get tired of it. Although, I will say that I got a tablet because I don't want to have to take care of another laptop. the tablet just works for what I need, I have a perfectly powerful PC in my home office I can use if I want to do anything I need it for... and if I'm just doing simple things like web browsing, facebooking, some gaming, youtubing, etc the tablet works perfectly. (and if I felt like it, I could sync my keyboard to it or use a stylus to do text input.)

Ever hear of the Savannah? It was a Nuclear powered merchant ship. It won't satisfy your commercial aspirations as it was built as a show boat. 100 staterooms does not make a profitable cruise ship... And the addition of the 'first of it's kind' needing it's own support infrastructure didn't help either... but with fuel prices going up, and with the proper facilities in place to handle the ships, I think it'd actually end up being much cheaper in the long run, especially with modern reactors that don't need enriched fuel or fuel with very low levels of enrichment. Safety isn't a huge problem with modern designs, and for the amount of money the shipping companies bank on the products they ship, its something that seriously needs to be looked into again. Even if it doesn't come to fruition for another 10-15 years, it would greatly help the worlds oil reserves which are depleting as we speak.

FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah

The popular kids get more action... Wow. I'm glad they did this study.

Not to stick up for "the Man", because I hate him as much as anyone here... but one major reason why these devices aren't wide open in the first place is support. It's MUCH easier to support a phone that does {W,X,Y,Z} than it is one that does {W,X,Y,Z,$WhateverElseWasInstalled}. Especially when installing those extra things requires potentially rooting and altering the underlying system.

I'm all about the device being yours as soon as you purchase it. But if I bought a car and decided I wanted to swap the engine out for an electric engine and batteries, I'd not expect the manufacturer to even look my way when I drove it in to the shop.

Seriously, why? Sure I look at the size of the drive when I buy a laptop. I look at it and go "Why the hell can't I get something smaller?" Smaller and faster means a big speed increase and the ability to NOT lose a lot of when the laptop inevitably gets bumped/dropped/water spills/etc. NO valuable data should reside primarily on a laptop hard drive. So when the smallest drive I could order for my wife's Lenovo was 250GB, I went with that... Let me tell you, her previous laptop had a 20GB drive, and it was only a hair over half full. My x40 is dual boot, with a 40GB drive. Sure, I've got some games on there, and sure, modern games are bigger, but you can't tell me I need anything more than 64GB tops.

Now maybe I'm odd for having a NAS at home that's RAID backed and easily accessible, but in this day and age, it doesn't seem that odd to me, nor was it expensive it doesn't get dropped, it doesn't mind if it loses a drive, it doesn't get hot, or make noise and create heat or suck battery down when I'm working on the laptop and if I work on files there, they stay centrally located. Now maybe I don't have tons of copies of DVD's on my laptop, and perhaps other people do, but DVD only tops out at 9GB a pop, and how many people rip Bluray's to play with them on trips?

I think it's really just a ploy by the HDD manufacturers to try to make us want more space for no good reason.I have a total of 750GB on my NAS, it's been 250+GB Free for the last two years and I've not made a concerted effort to delete things like videos and pictures when I'm done with them. Unless people are doing lots of HD video editing with uncompressed files on their laptops, I don't see how anyone can use 500GB+ drives in there during the current decade. I'm sure we'll want more eventually when screen res gets to a point where vidoes need to store greater than HD, but it seems kinda like a stupid to benchmark for a laptop.

Unfortunately, some panels look downright crappy when on their side. Seems manufacturers don't think about viewing angles from up and down, which when turned are then left and right. We have a few different ones here at work that look horrible from anywhere besides perfectly centered. otherwise they turn yellow or green.