The standard way of measuring cell phone coverage is by percentage of population not area. That's why Sweden when it auctioned off the 3G licenses said that the guy who covers the most of our population get the license. See: http://www.tele2.se/kundservice/tackningskarta.html and http://www.telia.se/privat/kundservice/support/mobiltelefoni/tackningskarta/ that seems to be better than ~70% area coverege, I thought it was worse...

It has some problems:

1. the person who pays needs to be the same as the one who is on the invoice. So you can't give a subscription to anyone without having it in your own name.
2. the invoices are not kept by my bank but by a service provider, using different standards with different quirks
3. making a local copy of these HTML/PDF/txt documents is horribly slow. They all have different systems filenames, which have nothing to do with the invoice.
4. I need to have at least one paper invoice before I can get them electronically.

The one good thing is that I don't have to care about invoices at the end of the month, just press pay.

I think you need to only watch good 1080p for a period, and the go back to DVD. There will always be DVDs with better quality than Bluray, since it's so hard to get good enough image quality.

Most of the news that comes out is pretty good. I don't think that all apples are bad just because I find one of them was bad.. Fox News is an extreme case.

Basically
* key exchange -> you need to be a man in the middle for every call.
* public key/private key -> you just need to listen to the traffic, and decrypt it with keys acquire before or after listening.

Yes it will, basically

1. the website ask for permision
2. the webbrowser asks the user
3. the user says Sure post you notifications to my notification URL http://example.com/my-notes
4. user checks http://example.com/my-notes for notifications
5. the website pushes notifications to the notification URL
6. user checks http://example.com/my-notes for notifications
7. user checks http://example.com/my-notes for notifications
8. user checks http://example.com/my-notes for notifications
9. user checks http://example.com/my-notes for notifications

As is said above they got convicted on accessory to commiting copyright infringement of 7 movies some music and a couple of games. This wasn't really thought of as something that could seriously happen before they got charged with it, and the sentence seems very perveted imho. If accessory to commit crime give you $3.5 million in fines, I would hate to be sentenced for the crime of actually downloading one movie.

I always thought they would get convicted, but I think the verdict was tad bit extreme. They do not have enough money to pay ~$3.5 million, but neither do most people who get convicted of "Copyright Crimes".

There are lots of other possibilities e.g. the Sansa clip i a very good player and it supports Rockbox.

The max cost need to be in there, and having to pay $70000 just because you forgot to turn off your phone is not a good thing. This is important because people do not see this problem, and tend to laugh at "losers" affected by it. Pressure should be on the Telcos to have fair pricing, not on the customers.

So no it's not alarmist, it's trying to expose telcos for what they are, and hopefully change them.

They have hosted codesprints and Debconf 2009. So this is really just a continuation of a long time of moving towards Linux. But I do not like the part where he says "Our budget for this is zero euros", that will not go well.