I've been through Ben Gurion a few times (I'm Israli-born and still have an Israeli passport). They may certainly assume that, but -- given that I was traveling at the time with a portable DVD player, additional battery, two power adapters, a cellphone, and an iPod, I can assure you it is in no way banned.

You know that the RPi is also manufactured in a third world country, likely in what looks like the other "slave farms" which manufacture electronics, right? They abandoned plans to produce it in the UK.

It's worth noting that while the USPTO just GRANTED the patent, it was filed back in 2006. I was all set to join the pile-on -- Outlook 2011 on the Mac has this feature -- but I can't recall Outlook, at least, having this feature back in 2006.

When you have to fly oxygen, food, and water to feed humans, you have to make the trip happen much faster -- and therefore burn way moe fuel -- than when you can take your time because the only thing you're consuming is electricity (and you can recover some of it via solar).

Sure; but frankly, I don't think I've got composite on my current 50" plasma. I don't care.

HDMI, like it or not, is the standard for AV these days. If they support HDMI as well as Thunderbolt, I don't see how anyone can fault them for it.

I've got an AppleTV.

It connects to my (tomato firmware-running) wifi router via industry-standard 802.11n

It connects to my (Panasonic) TV via industry-standard HDMI

I use it to watch movies from the iTunes store and Netflix. I also use it to stream music from non-Apple sources and watch videos on YouTube.

I'm guessing no proprietary connectors for their TV set.

The right english word you're looking for, by the way, is "dressing." As in, "killing and dressing an animal."

(I know, I know, "dressing" to mean "take the fur off and throw the stomach out" makes absolutely no sense. As a fellow "I didn't learn English as my first language" person, I sympathize)

US is not another availability zone -- it's a different region. There are multiple AZs per region and -- if Amazon is doing their job -- a lightning strike should not take down more than one AZ in a region.

(I work at Netflix)

When I was underemployed a few years ago, I made a game of trying to get as many DVDs from Netflix as possible. I figured out at some point that the maximum possible number of DVDs you can get in an average 30-day month is 10*X, where X is the number of DVDs you can have out at a time. So the best-case scenario for a 3-at-a-time plan is 30 DVDs a month.

(I mentioned this when I had my second interview here. The person I was talking with confirmed, and noted we had 8-at-a-time subscribers who were going through close to 80 DVDs a month).