It's written in Java and runs on all three main platforms

write once.. run on three platforms

Despite the Slashdot headline, from reading the article all I can tell is that nastygrams were sent by both parties and it hasn't entered the courts yet. I'd like to see a judge get involved, to be honest.

Microsoft and Gates' vision of tablet computing back then was a full desktop operating system with a stylus and handwriting recognition.

Steve Jobs pointed out in 2003 that even done very, very well, handwriting recognition still sucks.

The iPhone, a mini tablet released in 2007, had an operating system built ground up with a touch interface (no stylus), and when it came to text input it popped up an on-screen keyboard (no handwriting recognition).

The article closes with Jobs acknowledging that tablets would be good for reading articles (I saw a project on hack-a-day where someone built an iPad bracket into their kitchen so they could read recipes), and joking that tablets are a niche market.

Microsoft's tablet efforts in 2003 were worse than niche market, they were failures. Apple blew the market wide open by not following the same path.

The minor political movement surrounding your incarceration would likely not happen today. Hacking has become a state-sponsored activity, with China attacking Google and America/Israel attacking Iran.

Do you think your life would be a lot different if you were born 10 years later?

recent news reports are describing a sinister technology being developed by a company named "flingo" next up, an impressive implementation for automated human euthanization has been patented by boobytoo, a new startup out of silicon valley

Luckily Microsoft have once again innovated, and started to fight this monopoly by monitoring how their customers interact with Google

Inciting a riot is a crime on the level of shouting fire in a crowded theatre

I just looked at AFS on Wikipedia and it looks very interesting.

What implementation of AFS do you use, server side and client side?

Do you have any books or documentation online you could recommend?

but unity still sucks

iPhones run ARM compiled apps and Apple laughs all the way to the bank...

BTW, I have also heard a lecture in my uni 15 years ago from a guy that was trying to develop the system to also determine general mood of the person by the way they typed. Not sure how far that went.

Watson's success in Jeopardy has me wondering if we ever see a limit to machine learning. Cell phones have so many sensors on board - camera, location, microphone. I know the last Batman film touched on this but if those sensors were all switched on and listening, a data centre would know when we were relaxing, when we were at work, when we were at the club, when we were making love, when we were screaming at someone. Feed the computer a pattern of sensor data from murders and manslaughters, and the machines would be able to warn the police as the confrontation was happening.

Did Slashdot's fortune thing at the bottom of the page just totally wig out?

Up here in Canada the local hip hop station has been playing a song called "swaggberry" talking about how if you don't have a BBM pin, where you bin?

It's an awful song and it's so obviously bought and paid for

Disclaimer: I'm Canadian but I own an iPhone, not a Blackberry. I saw the clip previously and didn't even know what he was talking about, and just thought it was exceptionally bad manners to walk out of a BBC interview. Now that I know that the question was about allowing foreign governments spy on foreign citizens, I find his response even more rude. Answer the damn question, man. If you are ashamed of what your company is doing then maybe you should find another job.

Exactly.

"Hey you guys are really smart, right? Want to come hang out with a bunch of people who aren't? They aren't too annoying until they come by and start correcting you, when they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. C'mon, it will be fun!!"

I don't even like academics but the self proclaimed wikilords trying to attract knowledgeable people is pretty hilarious.