Last I checked repair wasn't robotized.

keep shopping, iirc speakeasy (now megapath) has T1s for ~250 a month

It looks like the lawyer is arguing it saved them a day or two and that since google is making $3 million a day on android that that is $6 million google wouldn't have had if they didn't steal rangeCheck. The judge then points out that as you say... it saved 5 seconds.

Router buffers, and full routing buffers is a bad thing, they're talking about buffering your packets, not buffering the contents of your disk. Here, I found you a good article to read about bufferbloat http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336

I touched on the libraries in my original post as well.

I'm not sure how this would be relevant. Last I checked neither android nor the android SDK implement a java compiler at all. They rely on the JDK for compiling. They do static binary translation from JVM byte code to Dalvik byte code.

There are some fairly large differences between Dalvik (the vm in android) and the JVM from sun/oracle/whoever. Namely the Dalvik instruction set is register based whereas java is stack based. You can easily have any engineer look at the code for the Dalvik vm itself and see there is quite a difference. Then the libraries that aren't android specific are based on the Apache harmony project so affidavits from Google engineers would be quite useless there. Now the question to me wouldn't be in Android itself but is the Android SDK truly clean room. There's a static re-compiler to recompile JVM bytecode to Dalvik bytecode. My guess is the SDK is clean room itself but Schmidt being honest about android being clean room isn't so unlikely but it is quite possible this is doublespeak and the SDK itself (hey it's not "Android") could very well be based on Sun IP. The relevant stuff I've seen in this court case hasn't related to so much lifted code as it was patents which is quite difficult to avoid infringing just by not seeing code.

Not all do. I use total recall call recorder on my galaxy s2 just fine without speakerphone.

Something about a fight with Tanenbaum over microkernels vs monolithic kernels.

When I applied for clearance they told me anyone who refused they would just get a warrant for. But I was also told by those people there's no way they would refuse with or without a warrant.

I've said it before and I'll say it again and again and again. The release was insanely successful. This is a small crew with a fairly limited budget. They essentially sank all the cash they had into the first 250k and I am amazed that they still came together and are going to be able to get the first batch out without a major delay. I'm guessing licensing to these two companies had something to do with it. With no pre-orders how are they going to give preferred status to the early orders? The first 10k people get theirs shipped first so yeah they got preferred status. Do you mean the mailing list? It took them days to send out all of the emails it ended up being impossible they had over 100k people on the mailing list and only 10k boards. When apple sells out of iPhones for a month its a huge success, when this tiny company sells out a quarter of a year already its a huge fail... I don't think so this release has been insanely successful the only thing they could have done better is if they had more cash to set up the initial shipment better but alas the money tree crop hasn't been doing so well for the world lately and for a tiny group of people doing something to save the world they did damned good.

Haha that seems a bit naive. Just because they don't demand you show them your profile doesn't mean they don't have Facebook show them your profile. I use to work at a prison and the Lt Col over me would tell me stories of when he use to do security clearance checks. Most of the people he interviewed didn't even know he was interviewing them.

I really don't want to know why your interface is all GUI

That's called a front door.