This is a furphy. There was no "original" English in the colonial era, there were dozens, possily hundreds of them. How you spoke depended on which part of England (or Ireland, Scotland, Wales etc) you came from.

American English (and modern "English" English, for that matter) is a homogenised version of all the contributing dialects and accents, as most modern languages are.

There was no intention to secure the data. Each country's intelligence service shares with their counterparts so they have plausible deniability regarding spying on their own citizens.

The Brits can say they got info from the Americans or Australians NZ, etc and vice versa.

These people in their surveillance communities have far more in common with each other, and more loyalty to each other than to the nations that hire them.

More than that, this hack only takes a few minutes to do. TFA links to an advert-ridden blog, but Tom's own page has more details

http://tomantosfilms.com/?p=474

It's basically a model helicopter gimbal velcroed to an ordinary camera shoulder mount. Clever, and unchallenging to build.

Then you'd be making a mistake.

The Asus Transformer range showed that Android was excellent as a convertible netbook/mini notebook. Now Acer is releasing a full-sized ( 21.5-inch) Android All-in-One pc, and there's rumours of many more in the pipeline. http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/24/acer-Smart%20Display-DA220HQL-hands-on/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57581500-92/android-notebooks-yep-intel-says-and-theyll-only-cost-$200/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/14/motorola-mobility-launches-hmc3260-cloud-streamer/

There's still gaps in applications and perpiherals that'll keep some businesses on Wintel for a little longer. Unless MS can pull something a LOT better than W8 out of it's hat, though, I'd say the trickle will very quickly become a landslide.

Very true. I think it should be important to anyone who's concerned about the future of computing and the future generally, but a 14 year old is just starting their life. They'll have a lot longer to look forward to than the old, jaded people who're running Microsoft and Prism.

If I was 14 again, I'd sure as hell be hunting around frantically looking for a way out of this cage. And I'd sure as hell not be using any Microsoft products.

Thanks for the tip on the Odroid-U2, that looks interesting. I'll check it out for sure.

But this UDOO board sounds like it's for me, not you...

I'm currently experimenting with IOIO boards and Android phones/tablets, so something like this would be a nice option.

But DOSBox is itself an application and does not have to output the same stream as the applications it contains.

That silly light sensor is connected to a box filled with highly complex AI developed by some of the brightest minds in software development, all bent to s single purpose: Killing people.

Oh sure, it's all virtual NOW, and all for fun NOW, but how long until someone at MRDS "borrows" some Bungie AI code and pastes the wrong bit?

Sure, we'll have a cadre of highly trained specialists with a long history of beating these bots, but they're all flabby and basement-tanned. They'll tire even faster than the batteries on the bots' Surface Pro-powered brains! Cancel your credit-card payments now, or we're all lost!

I doubt it. You're just too used to Windows.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority's statistics breakdown shows of about infected 16,500 devices online at any one time, 20 Windows viruses make up more than 16,400 of the active IPs. Rarer Windows viruses, and Mac, iOS, Linux and Android infections all total less than 100 infections.

http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD..PC/pc=PC_600121

If the OP's computer IS actually compromised, it's far more likely to be a targeted attack or insider job than a random infection. My money's on a friend, family or associate with access to the machine.

Marvin? Is that you?

Even if they make good decisions, they'll still lose market share. Their problem isn't that they're getting stupid, it's that everyone else is getting smart.

Phones like the HTC One are beautifully made and elegantly designed. Jelly Bean is slick, comfortable and easy to use. Other manufacturers are leapfrogging a long way past Apple's current standards, and doing it at a lower cost. Look at Lenovo's latest:

http://www.gsmarena.com/lenovo_k900_now_available_in_china_priced_at_536-news-6062.php

You don't need to.

Try using Greasemonkey for a while - There are already plenty of scripts out there that'll change the way you see and use the web.

Actually no.

I really like this idea. Basically all they're saying is that a website should tell you if you're entitled to use something like Greasemonkey to replace their javascript with your own clean version (eg if they use crappy, DRM ridden, or annoying javascript). It's a nice, simple way to give control back to the computer user, which is the FSF's raison d'etre.

Simple, clear and functional. I like it.

While we might be willing to accept the USA as our seventh state, you'd need to adopt our laws, not the other way around.

Good luck with your application to join though.

You must have a different version from mine then, because the MS Office I see used in most businesses crashes, locks up, loses formatting, corrupts documents and is generally one of the biggest causes of wasted time in any working office environment.

Look, I get tat you don't like Libre Office, but don't pretend the MS version is any paragon of stability. It just isn't.