Both work on Linux, although Amazon requires the Flash plugin (new Chrome-only Pepper API one will not work) with the HAL (there's a HAL package on Ubuntu: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/flash-player-11-problems-playing.html) The Adobe DRM for Amazon may come into a future Pepper API plugin but it is not currently implemented, which is why you need the old plugin Flash plugin + HAL. Hulu works with both, as far as I can tell. It's been a while since I've watched stuff on there, though.

Protip: 99.999% of car drivers either do not know how to change their oil or are not willing to learn how and simply have no reason to care. That's why we all take our cars to the original dealer.

In the BSD case, it can be used everywhere, but there's no obligated to release source for what it gets added to.

Unless statically linking (which is more complicated), the LGPL and BSD licenses both allow this. The LGPL doesn't allow for proprietary mutation of the original library.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/04/department-of-justices-long-oversight-of-microsoft-to-end.ars

the data stored on those iPhones which are not even transmitted to Apple.

Yes, it is: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/iphone-location/

Every 12 hours, an iOS deviceâ(TM)s stored geodata gets anonymized with a random string of numbers, and it gets transmitted to Apple in a batch.

There are some very important differences: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/137143/20110421/android-phones-track-users-movements.htm

The data is unencrypted. Unlike the situation with iPhones, however, the data remains on the phone, and to access it one needs access to the operating system itself, known as "root access." On the iPhone, the location data was copied from the phone to a PC every time it was synced with iTunes. It was copying the data to the PC that creates a potential security problem.

Another difference is how big the location data files, called caches, are. On the Android phones they are limited in size to 50 unique cell sites and 200 WiFi access points. Apple's version was much larger

Also, according to a 13-page letter sent to Congress by Apple, they also upload your location history to Apple every 12 hours: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/apple-iphone-tracking/

According to Appleâ(TM)s letter, geodata is being tracked and transmitted to Apple only if a customer toggles the Location Services option in the settings menu to âoeOn.â If itâ(TM)s off, no location-based information will be collected.

If the Location Services setting is flipped on, the iPhone, 3G iPad and, to a more limited extent, the iPod Touch and the Wi-Fi iPad, are transmitting geodata to Apple under different circumstances.

Apple is collecting information about nearby cell towers and Wi-Fi access points whenever you request current location information. Sometimes it will also do this automatically when youâ(TM)re using a location-based service, such as a GPS app.

As for GPS information, Apple is collecting GPS location data only when a customer uses an application requiring GPS capabilities.

Apple claims the collected geodata is stored on the iOS device, then anonymized with a random identification number generated every 24 hours by the iOS device, and finally transmitted over an encrypted Wi-Fi network every 12 hours (or later if thereâ(TM)s no Wi-Fi available) to Apple. That means Apple and its partners canâ(TM)t use this collected geodata to personally identify a user.

At Apple, the data gets stored in a database âoeaccessible only by Apple,â the letter says.

âoeWhen a customer requests current location information, the device encrypts and transmits Cell Tower and Wi-Fi Access Point Information and the deviceâ(TM)s GPS coordinates (if available) over a secure Wi-Fi Internet connection to Apple,â Apple wrote in the letter.

Errrm, +1. Now, to get Moz to use hw acceleration for webm and to get a webm-enabled crystalhd card for my linu netbook!

FSF also has a contract regarding what they can and cannot do. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright/assign.changes.manual

Mod parent up! (Yes, they really do)

Seconded. I *used* to be a Netflix customer, and left after the silence just became awkward. Fortunately, Amazon wants my business instead.

Or subscribe to Amazon's service. Vote with your dollars, folks.

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/1140155/Massachusetts-CIO-defends-move-to-OpenDocument http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/massachusetts-open-source-fight-becomes-partisan/506 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/top-national-advocate-for-the-disabled-sets-terms-for-endorsement-of-opendocument-format/2163 (among many others)

Not all: http://zareason.com/shop/ZaReason-s-Open-Hardware-Warranty.html

I mean, don't you have to connect to PSN to get the updates that kill OtherOS? If so, I see only win. :) I mean, that's the icing on the cake. The decision they've forced for us OtherOS users is between staying away from GameOS and PSN or staying away from PSN and getting another SPU and access to the GPU. I don't see the downside, frankly.

But it is not like Bind crawled Google or anything like that, which Google would like everyone to believe.

But they did. Instead of using a program to do the clicking, they used humans.