I'm eagerly awaiting an android version of this. This software, an android phone and a robot platform controlled by the android phone: Cool stuff alert

You make a good point, personally I am a person that will listen to music 3-4 hours each day; for me a spotify premium subscription makes perfect sense. Still I can't see the real big problem of paying 100NOK a month for instant access to all (most) of the music you want. Even if you use it sporadically that is not a bad price. And it makes sense to pay more for the option to use your mobile devices. After all, spotify is a business, and they need to make their money somewhere. It is better that they actually differentiate between "pure" PC users and those who use mobile devices as well. You get what you pay for.

In regards to norwegian beer prices; I totally agree :)

That is just ridicilous. In Norwegian money, one month of spotify membership costs less than a beer bought at a pub*: and the amount of music you have available is excellent. If they really want the radio model with advertisements and a fixed playlist - listen to a goddamn radio station. Spotify is something completely different - you have full controll over what you are listening to.

*That is for the least expensive option, where you do not have the option to use it on mobile devices. For double this, or about one and a half beer you get the added possibility of installing the spotify application on mobile devices; including offline storage to not tax your wireless data plan.

that noone has posted this yet: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/partner/+files/canonical-census_0.1.tar.gz
It is a simple bash script with the following comments:

#!/bin/bash
# Send an "I am alive" ping to Canonical. This is used for surveying how many
# original OEM installs are still existing on real machines. Note that this
# does not send any user specific data; it only transmits the operating system
# version (/var/lib/ubuntu_dist_channel), the machine product name, and a
# counter how many pings were sent.
#
# (C) 2010 Canonical Ltd.
# License: GPL v2 or later

simply unpack the tar.gz file and see for yourself what info it is transmitting. IMHO the whole thing i harmless.

How hard is it to say; change a disk in one of the submerged nodes ? or fix a loose ethernet cable ? If the nodes are separated in compartments, and you could isolate and drain one while servicing it, this would be really nice indeed.

my favourite: 00:FA:CE:FE:ED

and for some more fun hex strings: hexspeak

If you are the kind of person that are in the danger zone of this happening (not that you would leave a computer with such sensitive information in your hotel room.); You would probably feel a lot better if you were able to checksum the bootloader when returning, maybe from an external usb drive. This would offcourse run it's own OS, not being done from the bootloader(for obvious reasons).

I think that this is exactly what they are doing, only that all the small tools are bundled in the same tarball.

i was just about to check out ncat. Seems interesting. The only downside is that is can never reach the same critical mass as the vanilla nc, and hence you cannot rely on the more advanced functions on an unknown computer. would be cool though, SSL could be handy in some situations.

they seem to be filtering the signal quite a bit (obviosly), and a bandpass filter at a known frequency would take care of quite a lot of the random noise from the rest of the system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST - the fact that these guidelines exist, means that this is in not new.

nobody expects the spanish inquisition!