Honest question: Which of the common IM protocols are encrypted, excluding things like OTR?

What happens if you don't have an SD card? Does it store it on internal memory? If so, does that persist through the reset?

Coefficient of rolling friction on concrete is 1.0? I think you mean sliding friction. There's a reason wheels were invented in the first place...

Well, it is a laptop too. If you were in the market for a $1000 laptop, and assuming this machine has similar specs to what a similarly-priced laptop could do (seems like it does), why wouldn't you buy one of these?

The "attack" in TFA doesn't mention anything necessarily specific to the iPhone. The attackers got Verisign to sign a cert with the name "Apple Computer." That is a social engineering problem, not a security implementation flaw of the iPhone.

I bet the headline would get even more pageviews if they claimed this was an iPad flaw instead of iPhone.

I have an unmodified 2008 Hyundai Tiburon. It does not have a light sensor so the headlights are fully manual. When I park and turn the key to the off position, the headlights turn off immediately. The parking lights do stay on for a little while though. Of course, I haven't tried this while moving...

because it's my preference to install some software packages that way because it's faster/easier than going into Symantec since I know the exact program name

I hope the authors of Synaptic never see this post as they would probably hang themselves after being mistaken for that monster...

Unlike in America where it's common to accidentally (or something intentionally) misspell certain words, and tian/tien is a good example of something that might be overlooked in English, it's not something Chinese people will do because (1) there's no alphabet and (2) if you mess something up you get a totally different word

Also, tien isn't a valid Chinese word. So my point is that, unlike what we might do in the West, Chinese people aren't going to misspell it to get the results they want.

Microsofts version of open source is that i develop and they take the code, the credit and the ownership.

Yes, because Microsoft's mode of operation is to steal GPL code and try to claim it's theirs until they get caught, at which point they fess up and pretend it was a mistake. Right... I mean, just look at all the other times they stole GPL code!

If in fact that tool used GPL code, it was just some lazy or dishonest developer who used a bunch of code from the Internet and pretended it was his. No proprietary software company would let that slide. Yes, that includes the company we all love to hate.

For $6/mo with Skype, you get "unlimited" calls (10000 minutes) to the US/Canada, a real phone number that rings your Skype, caller ID (both ways), and free incoming calls. You don't get any hardware for that amount of money, though. Also, to the guy calling his gf in China, Skype charges a connection fee. Google is 2.0c/min with no connection fee.