MEH OS is exactly how I feel about this new offering and its chances of impressing anybody in this age and time. At least they didn't get it as bad as the CrAPI one.

It is too, especially when you're talking "new" geothermal, which works on lower-temperature deposits. - please turn to this very interesting IEEE Spectrum article for more details.

BFS stands for Bread-first search. It means I searched for bread, then sang a few songs about it, then went on driving.

Google gave me walking (actually bicycling but never mind) directions which all but crossed a 6-lane highway. Since said highway was surrounded by a tall fence, a trench and a shrubbery, I didn't apply for a Darwin award, but instead BFS'ed for a few minutes until I found a proper crossing.

As a coder, I know it's terribly difficult to write a proper pathing algorithm! I guess since I know that I'm more forgiving (just as I'm less likely to rage at buggy games).

I don't really understand how this infomercial qualifies as Slashdot material, but still it needs some corrections:
1. The iPads were not confiscated - they were only prevented from entering Israel. They are still the property of whoever bought them, and he's welcome to take them back to the US and return/sell them on.
2. This regulation only applies to people trying to *sell* iPads in Israel - one piece for personal use is perfectly OK. I know many people who imported various wireless devices (walkie talkies, wifi routers, even Nexus Ones) to Israel, and as long as it's for personal use nobody challenged them at customs. Most electronics (except for musical instruments) is customs-exempt in Israel anyway.

The iPad scene in Israel: even though the thing doesn't have Hebrew text entry yet, there's still a very clear interest in it. There are companies who offer to buy it in the US and send it to you. Typical price including shipping is 2500NIS ($660):
http://www.mustop.co.il/special-deals-israel/ipad

Circa March 2008:
http://www.cybernetman.com/en/products/zero-footprint-pc/zpc-gx31.cfm
They even reused the stock footage.
Should cost at least $700, according to Gizmodo Australia:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/03/cybernet_zpcgx31_a_pc_in_a_keyboardsized_case-2/

Related key attacks are very feasible if a block cipher is used as a building block for a hash function. FYI XBOX was broken with a related key attack.

(credit goes to Orr Dunkelman for finding this out)

It's heartwarming that Moto finally has a sales growth. My first phone was a StarTAC, and it was really sad to see the brand fading away over the past years. I know quite a few good Moto engineers (they're all there, if you dig under the layers of Dilbert-grade mismanagement), and they were really waiting for good news for quite a few years now.

I hope Google keeps control over the user interface, though.

That's a really good idea, and at least in my house it's working out wonderfully well. The OP had in his mind that the users are somehow going to be "improved" if they get good reading material about malware, viruses, etc. It's well known that it doesn't work that way - they'll keep making mistakes (perhaps only half as much, but so what). The best solutions are those that keep the user out of the loop - that is, installing a different OS, lockdown policies, etc. etc.

I've never heard of Steadystate before. It sounds like a brilliant idea.

Take a look at the home page for the European counterpart of this contest:
http://www.sdeurope.org/index.php/eng/PARTICIPATING-TEAMS
Count carefully, and you find only 19 finalists, and not 20. Why? Because the 20th was from Ariel University Center, an Israeli university located in a settlement:
http://spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=6022

Somebody made some noise, and they got disqualified from the contest on political reasons (just like Leonid Levin's Ph.D. in 1972 Soviet Russia).

I can't comment on the AUC team's chance of winning, but I can comment on the sheer stupidity of ignoring scientific work because you dislike the political leanings of its authors.

According to a very long article on AppleInsider:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/09/exclusive_pink_danger_leaks_from_microsofts_windows_phone.html&page=3

MS was misleading T-Mobile about the state of Sidekick support, and apparently charging hundreds of millions every year for, and I quote "a handful of people in Palo Alto managing some contractors in Romania, Ukraine, etc". This is apparently because most of the Sidekick devs had either moved to Pink or quit out of disgust.

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You hit the brown mold.  You are suddenly very cold!

More power to you. If you want a geek-friendly diet plan, I've seen people here recommend the Hacker's Diet. It's a diet with widgets!

I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but still. I'm not a Russian dissident and I don't really know any. However, I stumbled upon the story of this monument (and of Putin's attempts to tear it down) and I thought it was more worthy of a Wikipedia article than Mudkips, although I heard quite a few people like them. It's a known fact that people feel much easier with editing an article than with creating a new one (Wikipedia's editing policy only make a natural phenomenon worse), and I hoped that a few of the many people online who can tell us more about the subject will take advantage of the venue and improve on the article.

If this isn't something that should work on Wikipedia, perhaps we should change Wikipedia.