When it is refined, this is going to be such a disruptive technology that it is going to make DRM / Music piracy look like a very simple problem.

Yes - and if you had a GPS then the mapping would be almost automated - say if you could use an open map such as openstreetmap then it would be a neat application of a mesh network + the data that the people on the ground are providing - to me this could be quicker than hand drawing maps.

haha - I submitted the article and just read this - yeah, you're probably right on the last one of these! Probably right on my understanding of computers too!
I think that the clip is generally OK - my main outrage which prompted me to submit the article was the ignorance of the people going on the course, any my sympathy for the programmers they work with!

Someone on reddit posted this link to an alternative torrent: http://burnbit.com/torrent/204972/ESM_2_0_8_23_04_zip

If I see someone doing a crossword I usually say "I was stuck on a crossword the other day - the clue was 'very busy postman'". Eventually (sometimes it takes a while) they ask "how many letters" at which point you can say "hundreds!"

I'm such a funny guy...

Oh - another one is to say "seven up is lemonade"...

It is funny that their take-down notice is copyrighted itself too. They should take-down the zdnet article for re-printing a screenshot of it, and then replace it with the actual page that the screen shot is of.

It is worth following JackOfKent on twitter for his insight into this. He noted that the take-down notice could actually be a contempt of court.

I just saw this on reddit this morning: http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/oxggi/my_friends_laser_cut_wedding_invitations/
For the ceremony, how about naming the tables after something geeky instead of numbers, or maybe even prime numbers...
I like the qr code idea too - perhaps a personalised qr code which goes to a pre-filled acceptance form?

Hmm - not sure about this. I actually love Linux on the PC for the fact that you don't usually have to worry about drivers - you can get a basic setup running very easily. However - when you want something like hibernation or high-resolution graphics then things start to get a bit more awkward - but for a basic internet browsing machine it is very easy to put Linux on a box and get it up and running. But for a tablet, you have more issues such as battery life etc which I don't see the open software being able to beat the top brands on the market (the ipad). Plus, whilst you're right about people saying "it doesn't run excel" people will be saying "it doesn't run i-tunes" - so I think that Linux on the tablet will be a very similar experience to non-techys as on the Desktop. However, what Android and Ubuntu are trying to do is remove the word "Linux" from the brands - which I can see is a smart commercial move. Almost everyone has some sort of Linux device in their house, probably embedded into their router or something - but they don't realise it - this is good for take-up but not so good for the basic principles of free-software...

For me, it is also a reminder of the distance between earth and the moon. It shows what a real achievement it was to get there, and I suppose why we haven't done it as much more recently.