Good to know.

I'm not exactly interested in Nook OS, but wouldn't mind buying the hardware. Can it run stock Android, or are there plans to allow it going forward?

You're probably right.

Better to make it a phone app.

What experiment is this?

Sorry, I thought I had a reasonable science background in high school, but that was apparently too long ago for me to remember this experiment.

Can someone provide details? I'm a little cautious in having it show up in my Google history at the moment.

Gotta say, SSD caching in the device mapper sounds pretty interesting.

Can't wait until the mainstream distributions pick this up. I'm using ext4 on my SSD (64GB) and my rotating disc HD (3 TB), and would like to seamlessly use the SSD to cache.

I thought we generally point to Kernel Newbies: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.9

Never heard of H Online. Is this another site we're using now?

The other issue with crowd sourcing:

It's difficult to come up with an answer, but once the answer is available it's (relatively) easy to verify. Sort of like finding the factors of a number.

In this case they couldn't verify they had the right answer.

What's a nerd?

I thought it was someone that's particularly interested in a field.

How about a fitness nerd?

Or a munitions nerd?

Or a terrorism nerd?

It's also pretty common among white teenagers. Just look up "Emo".

I wonder if their laws dictate how good the response is?

Imagine Google created a simple AI that answered all questions in email. Would they be happy with that?

Or what if they assigned 2 people to handle all email responses in the country?

4 words:

Too big to fail.

Apparently if verisign is delisted, the internet stops working as expected.

Which really means the internet is broken and needs to be fixed. Maybe delisting all the security signers and starting from scratch (web of trust, etc.) is a good thing...

"It looks like you want to create a database in a spreadsheet application."

I wouldn't be so sure about that. My daughter, son, wife, and I have somewhat different tastes but with a lot of overlap.

Then there are the movies. Hundreds of movies and quite a few TV series as well.

Everything in unencrypted container formats with a password to the SMB share that my wife and dad know.

These watches better hold a charge for a year or longer.

The advantage of a watch over a phone is that you don't have to worry about charging it up regularly.

P.S. I really don't think wireless charging is going to make the watch more endearing to the general public, but I have a feeling that's the way most of these companies are going to go.

I made my own Linux boxes a couple times. Fun to do when I have the time.

Bought my last one pre-built from System76.

Don't think I'll ever build one again. It came quite solid and I get the extra satisfaction of supporting a Linux vendor.

Or...

Google may have more than 1 business model.