Water contamination and geological instability is thought to be an artifact of pumping the waste water back in the ground after the fraking is complete. Which doesn't have to happen, but is expensive to treat.

Mind you, this has to get past the same Supreme Court that said Costco was Violating Rolex's trademark by importing watches from other (cheaper) markets for sale in the US. Right of First Sale is not their forte.

It's not quite the Apple TV, Boxee or Roku killer... yet. While the SoC supports a fair number of codecs, only a small number are licensed at this point (see the Pi FAQ), and if you have hopes for Flash and Silverlight based streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) , that's not going to happen unless Chrome or Firefox release a browser with embedded support.

It's no secret that one of the reasons Intel is subsidizing manufacturers over $100M for the Ultrabook project is to keep ARM at bay. This is compounded by Microsoft offering a ARM version of Windows. Apple putting out a really nice A8 MacBook Air could really shake things up.

However, the real issue Apple is going to have is MacOS or iOS. There's a lot of compelling reasons to move to iOS for Apple, but ultimately the closed nature of iOS would likely alienate the large programmer base they have built up.

You have to have juice in order to get the feds to move on something. Example, Microsoft accidentally ships an Xbox prototype to the wrong address. Who shows up after the delivery? FBI. Why? Money and power makes the world go round.

Civil law is not about what's right or wrong. It's about being the last man standing. It's about having the fortitude and war chest to defend what is yours. I've actually seen a case where a small company tried to defend it's patents against a larger one. The large company fly the lawyers in the meet with them. They took one look at the offices of the small company and told them point blank "You don't have the money to win this, we're not giving you one cent. Good day."

Concur. The issue may be that a lot of political rallys are held in venues that don't do have reason to hold ASCAP license. There could also be an issue if the campaign is putting videos up of the rallies.

I tend to agree. I would say that Phones in Japan have been much smarter and data heavy than the US equivalents for some time. So it's not like the Android phones are replacing a bunch of Nokia Feature phones. For that reason I also think NTT DoCoMo knows what it's talking about as far as optimization.

This could be interesting datastorage. Recent articles about the NoSQL implementations at FB and other new media companies have indicated that 80+% of the data is actually stored in memory (with a write behind to disk). This coule end up being a specialized server product.

I know the area. There's no reason to build out there. The land is just as expensive as downtown Minneapolis, and there's almost no one to peer with for upstream connections. And it's not like Minnetonka is all that far from Minneapolis. Seems like a good way to lose money on a datacenter.