And if after the reporting on slashdot and other sites, a lot of first-time users had a look at the page, their browser history would be dramatically different than that of regular users.

I found a relevant video. If you want to see the suit in action, jump to the 4:00 mark.

The idea of an unpressurized space suit is not entirely new. The Space activity suit has been developed in the late 1960s and was able to prove the concept. I'm glad it's on the table again. I've seen videos showing someone wearing an SAS running on a treadmill in a big vacuum chamber. However, I can't find it on the net.

If you have a look at the supported players, you'll see that the supported models tend to be quite old. The Rockbox project took long to get where it is. And its functionality is limited to pure audio playback. By now, any players with a screen support additional features like video playback or Wifi support. The features that Rockbox offers are well implemented, but the project never offered what marketing demanded at the time.

I once worked for a company like the one that provided your cheap mp3 player. There were several reasons for not being more open:
1. The only legal music stores at that time insisted on DRM, which is largely incompatible with open source.
2. Chip manufacturers only provide drivers in binary form. They also have extensive confidentiality agreements that made it impossible to release relevant code produced by us.
3. Documenting and cleaning up code, reviewing licenses and releasing or integrating code is a considerable workload and has to be justifiable. I think people overestimate the resources that small companies can spend on firmware. The firmware for some of our products was implemented by three or four people.
4. Our boss hated the idea that our competitors could get a leg up by using software that he paid for being developed.

Too true. Installing the Firefox NoScript extension has been an eye-opener for me.

Patents like 7100154 and 5937406seem to be more useful against Oracle than Apple. These patents are a mixed bag.

State in your Terms of Service that the user has to agree not to participate in terrorist activities.

Why use plastic? Direct metal laser sintering is a a form of 3D printing that allows to produce parts made of steel or titanium. This process is even used to produce the blades of turbines.

If all US prisoners deserve their fate, americans must be very bad people indeed. The incarceration rate in the US is ten times as high as in Europe.