We refer to that as the "Open Source" development model

This is the way I see it. I currently run a company with a very very large install base of machines.

My machines are all running Centos 5.x. For me, getting 5.6 out to production is the HIGHEST priority. I could give a crap about 6.0, especially since everyone knows that the first RHEL x.0 release will be completely buggy anyway. For deploy-able stable products, RHEL 4.3 and RHEL 5.1 were the first in their series to be decent enough to run in production from our testing and bug reports back to Redhat's bugzilla. I completely expect RHEL 6.0 to be completely unstable and bug ridden, and hopefully 6.1 has ironed most of them out.

I'd be perfectly happy if CentOS never released a RHEL x.0 release.

I personally think Scientific Linux has their priorities backward, and CentOS is in the right. I'd rather have 5.6 before 6.0.

You missed the next month:
http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/calendar/view/2011-6

"6.0 begin sync to external mirrors" is June 6.

Maybe a release within a week of that.

If we're so worried about global warming just counteract it by increasing global dimming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming

Because China killed them all already?

The only real way to ensure that we don't run out of IP space is to rent them, not sell them. Charge a "property tax" of $1 per IP a month and you'll see tons of organizations with class A blocks give back IP space that they weren't using anyway because they can't afford $16M a month. No organization should ever need more than a few class Cs of publicly routable IP space.

There's a very simple solution to this. We should be renting IP addresses, not handing them out. Make publicly routable IP addresses cost $1 a month. Many class A owners would be dying to give back address space that they aren't using. Isn't that the answer to a limited supply of anything? Set a value to them so they aren't wasted.

Why aren't the leases on internet addresses high enough to convince people to give them back? Price them at a buck a month, and if someone truly can afford to spend $16m a month on a class A, let them. Otherwise they will give them back really fast. What's wrong with a little capitalism?

Because that obviously worked well for drunk driving? You know that 37% of all automobile fatalities still involve alcohol right? http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html

Sure that number may be down from previous years, but its still too high.

Speaking of which, on Android why does the very popular app "The Weather Channel" need "Services that cost you money: directly call phone numbers" because I sure don't see that functionality anywhere.

Let's see... Google gave all of their employees the G1 for Christmas of 2008, same happened with the Nexus One for Christmas of 2009. Maybe you should check back around Christmas time.

It's even easier than that. I'm pretty sure I've seen this idea mentioned before on Slashdot:

The best scheme that I've seen is to have loser pays, but with the addition that a side is only responsible for up to the amount they spent on their personal lawyer. This brings much more power to the little guy trying to defend a lawsuit, and also makes sure that the corporation can't bury him in an insane amount of fees in the case that he loses.

This also provides the incentive of "only spending as much as you need on a lawyer" and not a penny more.

Did you even read the summary? Realtek's signing keys were stolen. That's why Verisign revoked them. Putting the verification keys in hardware wouldn't fix this issue.

What about the average 30% iphone (2g-3g) dropped call rate in NY?
http://gizmodo.com/5370493/apple-genius-bar-iphones-30-percent-call-drop-is-normal-in-new-york

I would assume that iphones would have a higher drop rate than most other phones. But yes, your numbers could be dead on and are pretty disturbing.

As a person who was completely obsessed with maintaining cell reception, I did a ton of testing of cell phones on Verizon. I can say that the Nokias were always the best at holding calls in fringe areas, even the models with internal antennas like the 6236i. All the Nokias I owned would actually gain very little signal strength (1-2db) by extending their antenna. I read that part of their design was to be able to use the external antenna internally or externally. 2nd best was usually Motorola. There were definitely times where other Verizon users had to borrow my phone to maintain a call. When Nokias were dropped by Verizon I would go pick up used ones as backups. All in all, I owned 1 3589i, 3 6015i, and a 6236i, every single candybar style Nokia that Verizon carried near the end.

Testing done by others on Sprint would place the Nokias as the best followed by Sanyo. This was confirmed by many users on howardforums and by an internal Sprint engineer that had access to call drop data.