To be fair, the troll who made the videos did claim that motors were providing 95% of the net power. That made it a good bit more plausible.

Here you go.

Seriously, if people want computer functionality on phones, they're going to have to deal with the associated tradeoffs. A lot of people stick with feature phones for just this reason; I did too until recently. Nothing wrong with either choice as long as it comes from an informed decision.

You can include the FSF in the list of authors of GPL programs who disagree with your interpretation. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation for information on aggregation; bundling GPL and proprietary parts and having proprietary parts execute GPL parts in an automated fashion is permitted. A common example would be the way many proprietary router web interfaces execute GPL utilities and receive their output via pipes or similar mechanisms.

I'm not sure how you define "aggregation", but it seems clear that it differs from the FSF's definition.

Whoops. ncurses is MIT licensed, not BSD. Bad example, but what I said still applies to the components that ARE licensed under the GPL.

You can reproduce the binary for the Linux kernel, the binary for busybox, the binary for ncurses, etc. Those are the components covered by the GPL. The GPL does not prohibit the distribution of GPL and non-GPL components on the same device or in the same distribution, nor does it have anything to say about components covered by another license.

It's just a minimal GPL drop. No application level source. Unlike (for example) Netgear or Linksys, they don't even provide the object code and build tools to let you build your own usable device ROM image from a combination of proprietary and OSS components.

DD-WRT is very stable on my Netgear WNDR3300, but the CPU reaches 100% usage at relatively low throughput. See here for some benchmarks recorded by another user.

I'm looking to get a better router and to OpenWRT in the near future. (The amount of writable flash on my router is too small to have a usable OpenWRT install with a JFFS2 partition.)

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't understand rather than assuming you're trolling, so:

Times in the quarter mile are measured from a standing start, not a moving start. A 12.5 second quarter mile does not in any way imply a top speed of 6/5 miles per minute (72 mph). That's the average speed over the 1/4 mile distance, and the initial speed was 0.

Just closed my account as well. (It would've renewed on the 15th.) I tried to e-mail them to explain why (there's no free text field in their survey), but I couldn't find an e-mail address or contact form.

Yes, I could've waited til September; this was one of those voting-with-my-wallet decisions.

They're currently on 3.0 RC4. So I imagine that what will and won't be in the release has pretty much solidified by this point.

Sounds more like the Year of the Jackpot to me.

I've only been to the Alamo Drafthouse once, but I think it was the best experience I've ever had at a normal (i.e. 35mm) movie theater. Comfortable seats, good projection/sound, friendly staff, and the food was delicious and was served unobtrusively. The prices were quite reasonable as well.

If you read the article, you'd see that the rule only applies to "Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies".