Why do you think they've left those CS2 download links up, despite tons of people believing Adobe is giving it away? If they cared, they could implement minimal serial number validation.

As I understand it, HDFS is just a clone of Google's GFS. What IP could Parallel Iron possibly own?

Oh wait...

"IP Nav told us that they could not divulge the details of their infringement claims -- not even the patent numbers or the patent owner -- unless we entered into a 'forbearance agreement' -- basically, an agreement that we would not sue them."

So they probably have nothing. How is this legal?!

Parts of Chrome and Android have always shared code (namely WebKit and some glue), but now Android is shipping Chrome as the default browser. The weird overlap is between Chrome OS and Android. Chrome OS is just Linux and Chrome... both of which are part of Android.

You might be joking, but they already implemented this years ago on the office keg: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/27/facebook-buzz/

You can say a lot of bad things about the TSA, but the TSA does not give a crap about your data. That's Customs and Border Protection.

WPS works by giving out your WPA keys, so if they've gotten in once through WPS, they will continue to have access.

... because Nintendo screwed them. Nintendo and Sony were jointly developing the CD add-on to the SNES (with Sony also building a combined SNES/CD machine named the Play Station). However, Nintendo dropped a bombshell on Sony at the '91 CES: they were severing their ties with Sony and instead partnering with Phillips to develop their CD technology.

There's an app for that: http://dankaminsky.com/2010/12/15/dankam/

No. Even if it did, it doesn't matter because Android does NOT rely on Java for isolation or security. Each application runs as a separate Linux user, and the kernel enforces isolation between apps this way.

Because apps are isolated in this way, they can include native code.

... except Apple copied a lot of those ideas from Xerox PARC.

One big argument I've heard against these systems is that the records tend to live forever, though backups, etc. If your company is subpoenaed, you may have to produce documents that you thought were destroyed long ago and no longer have any business use, yet might harm your case. At the very least, you may face some liability if confidential/protected documents leak out, like old payroll records that will inevitably have everyone's social security numbers.

I've interned at Google twice, so I know at least something about their infrastructure.

You can certainly use Google Docs for many things, including source code editing, version control, and bug tracking. However, I assure you that Google does NOT use Google Docs for these purposes. It's all about using the right tool for the job.

Google Docs might be perfectly fine for a one-way paging system to taxi cab drivers, but I'd imagine you'd want something a bit more customized. While I don't know much (if anything) about the taxi business, but you'd probably want to be able to track where your cabs are so you can dispatch jobs to the closest cab. You'd also need to know which cabs are free, and you'd might like to know where cabs are going and what their ETAs are. Sure, you could have your drivers type this in to Google Docs, but that's a pretty cumbersome and time-consuming UI. You could probably very quickly hack up a custom app to provide a nice UI for all of these features and get substantial time savings.

While they've been adding a lot of features to match Word (references, an equation editor, etc.), it still doesn't have everything. For example, I STILL can't make a two-column document in Docs (without using a table hack that's... less than optimal)! Until I can produce camera-ready scientific papers with Google Docs, for me it'll be a secondary tool to Word.

If you're using Google Docs to dispatch taxis, you're doing something very wrong.

Google Docs is a great band-aid to quickly hack something together, but it's no substitute for real tools.

Super Star Fox Weekend (Official Competition). It was sold through Nintendo Power after the competition ended.

Oh come on... these polaroids look MUCH better than Instagram photos!