MHL is HDMI + power, so it is in fact an HDMI connector which support MHL on top of HDMI.

I'm all for net neutrality, and I think the federal government has to be involved, but I don't think that this bill can really do much about it. Based on the information in the summary, ISPs can use caps for "traffic shaping" but not for profiteering, which sounds good, but how is the government supposed to know what the caps are actually being used for? The ISPs can most likely cook the data in whichever way they need to in order to make the case for traffic shaping. In the meantime the government is still trying to put effort (and more importantly, money) into trying to monitor and enforce the ban on profiteering-based caps.

I don't really think that caps are really something to fight against via legislation... not in the name of net neutrality anyway. I think caps are something that really have to be fought through customer demand. On the other hand, the actual issues that net neutrality is supposed to address are more about how data from certain applications, devices, or content sources gets lower priority than data from the applications, devices of content sources that are "friends" with the ISP.

What this guy said. TFA isn't an attempt to make Linux difficult, it's a difficult crash course on *learning* linux. It should be easy to use, but learning in a difficult way still has a lot of value for people who need to deal with things in a more in-depth way.

You don't download it on the client machine. You download and install it on the host machine. When you run it on the host, it runs a web server, which you then access from the client machine via the web browser.

So, assuming you already have it up and running on your server, all you need on your friends' computers is the web browser.

I doubt the planes themselves have changed that much... When you were a kid, everything around you was bigger, and flying was more novel and planes seemed more *shiny*. Also, people probably didn't travel with laptops when you were a kid (depending on how long ago that was). Now that you're older/taller/fatter, you're more uncomfortable just about anywhere, especially in a tight space, and especially when you have to stay in one spot for hours at a time. Restrooms on planes depend a lot on the type of plane. Small planes have tiny restrooms that are extremely uncomfortable for sitting, standing, or anything else you might do in a bathroom. A 747 or 777, has much more comfortable bathrooms.

I remember being super-excited to fly as a kid, but my parents didn't seem to think it was nearly as amazing... they seemed to dread it. Now that I'm in my 30's and I fly 2-5 times per year (usually one trans-oceanic trip per year) there are a lot of parts I dread, but I still get a little bit excited about getting to the airport, seeing the planes, boarding (even if I do feel like a part of the herd in the process), and taking off/landing. There's something about a giant aluminum tube with wings lifting off the ground that still gives me a little thrill. Hopefully the 787 can take some of the edge off of the more uncomfortable parts of air travel.

You realize that a 1GHz ARM CPU in your phone isn't nearly as "fast" as a 1GHz x86 CPU, and that a dual core processor also doesn't actually mean it's twice as fast, right?

Really, it doesn't matter if the emails are released or not. If they are not released, then there will be a whole "What are they trying to hide?!?!" campaign. If they are released, then no matter what is in the emails, the conservative pundits will find some sentence fragment to post on their blogs, which will then get posted to facebook and tweeted and retweeted, and it will be played on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and on Beck and on Hannity, and all of their followers will say "See? We told you something fishy was going on, and this is ABSOLUTE proof!!", even though the actual context of the email would reveal that it proves nothing of the sort.

Here's my go to example of this kind of thing. Here, Glenn Beck (with the help of Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz) describes a patent held by Fannie Mae that covers a tamper proof outlet cover. The idea is that companies can use these to keep employees from plugging high-power devices into outlets that are on the same circuits as PCs, so that breakers won't trip and unsaved work won't be lost. But what Beck explains is that this will make it so that the government can lock the outlets in your house so that you won't use too much electricity. Beck's explanation doesn't even make sense for so many practical and logistical reasons, but apparently his fans didn't think to question that.

Beck and Chaffetz both claim that the patent itself says that it's for home use, not for commercial or office use, which is exactly opposite of what the text of the patent describes. Not only is the patent text freely available online -- like all patents -- Beck clearly had access to it because he has the diagram from the patent printed out on a large paper, for use as a visual aid. The description in the patent text repeatedly describes the use of the invention in an office environment. The only mention of home use is a comparison to the baby-proofing outlet covers, but the text is clear that the invention is for office use, not in homes. Beck points at the diagram and shows how "they" come into your home and lock the outlet cover in place, so you can't remove it. Completely ignoring that A) it's not for homes, it's for offices; B) "They" is not government agencies, it's the facilities managers who work for the companies that would use this, and C) "You", are the employee that's not supposed to plug stuff in, not the homeowner who just wants to use his own electricity at home.

They also quote a letter that Jason Chaffetz received from Fannie Mae's legal counsel regarding the issue. The letter very plainly explains all of the questions that Beck frames in such a sinister way, even though Beck makes it sound like the lawyer who wrote it was being evasive. If someone were to actually read the letter, they would see very plainly that the patented invention was not invented for anything to do with Climate Change, and that it was designed to prevent data loss on company PCs. Beck goes to great lengths to read a couple of selected lines from the letter, while avoiding the parts that explain everything Beck was trying to question. Beck wasn't reading from cue cards or a teleprompter... He had the entire letter in his hand, with sections of it highlighted. When I see how Beck regards the information which is right in front of him, and dismisses it so he can tell a completely different, unrelated story, it makes me sick. What makes it worse is the fact that my own parents and hundreds of thousands of other people buy into his crap, and think he's saving them from tyrrany. He actually tells you at one point in this video that the patent is scary, just to make sure you know how to feel about the information he's not telling you he's making up.

I realize there are lots of examples of misinformation from pundits, but this was a very clear one I came across why channel surfing one night a couple years ago, and it is somewhat related to the discussion at hand.

The people who are out to try and discredit the climate scientists will use any shred of information they can, regardless of what's right in front of them.

Natural diamonds are for hipsters, apparently.

Thanks to everyone who has posted about this here... I just got this set up on my own Ubuntu/ssh machine in the last couple of minutes, and it's pretty slick!

I think everyone should have a serious, open discussion about 'Mater before they let their kids watch Cars.

Seriously? Do you know any 13 year olds? Remember being one? How many times as a kid/teenager did you do something horrible and later think "I was just a dumb kid, I didn't know any better"?

My mother-in-law has a fridge magnet that says something along the lines of: "Before I had kids, I had 6 theories about how to raise them. Now I have 6 kids and no theories".

It's very easy to look forward and say "When I have kids, this is what I'll do. I won't be like those stupid shitty parents who do this or that or the other, because I know better. I'll be a good one." Then you have kids, and you realize what it's like to live with them, to be responsible for them, to know how their little minds work.

I'm not saying you'll definitely change your mind, but having kids changes you, and not just in perspective. Suddenly you really have to be responsible. Suddenly you have a little buddy who pretty much worships the ground you walk on. You have an insatiable urge to impress them, to teach them, to make them laugh, and to keep them safe. Also, the more kids you have, the more you bend your life around them. Not everything's about doing what you want to do, or doing it how you want to.

Also, if you're still leaving "toys" out when your kids are teenagers, they'll start to hate you when they want to have their friends over. Even when they're younger, if they want to have friends over for play dates, you'd best be cleaning up and getting dressed before their friends' moms come over to drop them off.

Well, RIM is doing something, but they've been way too slow about it. The PlayBook was the first step, but it should have been followed much more quickly with BBOS10 phones. And this may have changed, but the last thing I heard was that for the first little while at least, the BBOS10 phones won't be compatible with BES (the server software that ties your BB to your corporate email/calendar). When it is compatible, it will be thanks to a newer version of BES, which means that corporate IT will have to upgrade their stuff, and you know how eager they'll be to do that.

The only feature RIM has to offer over anyone else is their email/calendar support. Everything else is just RIM trying to catch up. They will never beat iOS or Android in terms of apps, features, or interface. It's been 5 years now since the announcement of the first iPhone, and RIM still won't sell a phone that fits the general public's idea of a 2007-era "smartphone" for at least another 6 months. At this point, they've lost so much momentum that the only possible way to keep a real foothold is BES, but as I described above, that's a slippery foothold at best. In the meantime, even the corporate types have mostly moved on, even if their new phones aren't as tightly integrated to the company network as a BB would be.

My college library had these audio tape tours back in the day, and you were required to take them as part of the entry-level English class. One of the first stops was the newly-built Periodicals section. The tape instructed you to walk into the section, but didn't warn you to take off the headphones before walking through the magnetic gates.

Ouch.

Also, note that the appointment was made by the President, who had hated Hitler (the feeling was mutual) and resisted appointing him as chancellor for years. He was old and getting senile, and had a lot of pressure from close advisors, including his own son, to make the appointment.