An armed response is not always the answer.

Mainstream media failed to properly report the peaceful revolution in Iceland recently where the population completely replaced their government. http://rhuni.com/l/R7XUh8IIGB

Or we can look at the revolution in Egypt where only 2% of the population marched on the capital.

You could possibly run http://owncloud.org/ yourself on an Amazon server and have as much storage as you want. There are clients for Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

It took me 30 minutes to set one up. While I may sound like an advert, I am just really excited as I have been waiting for something like this for years.

I think European companies that need to keep data inside Europe for regulatory reasons can then run this for their employees inside their firewalls / VPNs.

Well in this case maybe a better option is to use http://owncloud.org/ an open source alternative to Dropbox where friends, communities or trusted companies run services for smaller groups.

Google as ever uses reverse IP lookup rather than browser preferences to set the language (language preferences only work once you log in and often even not when logged in). They assume people do not travel and everyone within a particular geographical area will only speak the dominant language.

Of course the Ford system needs patching. Anybody who has used an iPhone in a Ford will know that. There is there is no method to control playlists or songs it is not powerful enough to charge the iPhone. It would be better having a standard USB charging port than anything that is installed in the car.

The founders of Pirate Bay have shown themselves to have courage in the past and to stand up for themselves when they believe they are right.

Wikileaks nor Bradley Manning have been convicted of any crimes and yet Paypal et al. withdraw their service under inexplicable circumstances.

Looks like a great time to stop using paypal, Amazon and the others that fail basic morality tests.

While I like the work that GeoHot has done and have been a beneficiary of his work this seems a little contradictory.

It is great that GeoHot is fighting for free speech but seems odd that he is using Paypal, a company that refused to process payments for Wikileaks. Wikileaks were publishing the same information as both The Guardian and The New York Times. It seems quite clear that Paypal is no friend of free speech.

Maybe he ought to use a payment system that allows micropayments from thousands to achieve his goal such as http://flattr.com/ ?

thepiratebay.org is still available to me here in Sweden.

There is nothing that makes any flash look really, really good...

It means that the open source software development is often paid for by a commercial organisation.

The original article is trying to compare commercial (by which I guess they mean closed source) and open source (which is mostly commercial).

So lots of comparisons between open source and commercial software; however there is a lot of open source software that is sold, i.e. commercial. In addition it has been shown that most of the code for the Linux kernel was developed by people who were paid to do it by Red Hat, IBM, Intel and others. Does that mean that the Linux Kernel is commercial software.

May be the article should refer to closed source proprietary and open source software.

The article reads as if the author does not fully understand the how Open Source software is developed and is just a large advert (a.k.a. press release) for the auditing software.

The iPhone supports Microsoft Exchange mail, it would be strange for Apple to remove this feature when it is already present and works well for me.

It is running very similar software to the iPhone, which provides this capability. Configuration management may need more tweaks to support iWork but not much more. VPN is already present in the iPhone OS, there is no reason not to carry this across.

There is a space for a camera that fits the camera in the MacBook Pro - this has been shown in the spares delivered to repair shops. This will probably arrive in version 2, something new to buy for all the early adopters. (Disclaimer, I bought the iPhone 2G and then the 3G and was thinking about the 3GS until the iPad arrived ;-)

It connects to the network via ethernet cable and synchronises time via a time server, it can obtain a full addressbook via my skype account.

If I want to make a call I can choose to make the call via skype or via the land line, similarly it will receive calls both through the landline and skype.

If you do not want to use skype you could just consider it an application to edit your addressbook. I can have multiple handsets on the same base station and they all update simultaneously.

Using skype it is much closer to cross platform than something that is tied to Outlook or some other Microsoft application.

BT (British Telecom) was rebranded years ago and is most widely known as BT. This is because they are an International Company and did not want to be only associated with operating in the UK.

See:
http://paulrobertlloyd.com/articles/britain_rebranded/

"British companies now operate on a global scale and many had decided that any British associations were not good for business. A look at the number of privatised companies that have changed their names will tell you this. British Telecom was one of the first when it became BT in the early nineties - when many other national telecom companies - France Telecom and Deutche Telecom for example haven't felt the need. British Gas (now BG) and British Steel (now Corus) are two recent examples."