Thanks for tossing numbers to this, as the article, the articles links, xda, etc make no mention or comparison to the Optimus that I could see. Couldn't you also assume a similar situation with an overclocked Tegra2 as well? 20% increase would put it at over 2100.

Yeah, I mean if something has been adopted by the masses then why bother questioning it?

Lighten up, Francis; the Nintendo bit was a joke. I'm not saying everyone does it, but there are the "special kind of stupid" group of people that you are lumping me into that would. Not everything is a huge conspiracy though; look at the guy that was involved with the Iraq leak. He was just an idiot, not some anti-war insider protester that you're alluding to.

Why would someone release that preview DVD they got of an unreleased movie? Or of a bootleg copy of the next awesome Guns 'n' Roses album? Or a PDF of Harry Potter part 8?

Because they're people, they realize what kind of power they're holding, and stupid people crack and want to brag about it.

Remember when you were a kid and you snuck a peak in your parents closet and saw that Nintendo you were going to get for christmas, and it was so difficult not to brag to all your friends that you were getting it, but you ended up cracking and telling your neighbor billy, and your jerk neighbor billy cried to his parents that he wasn't getting one and your parents found out that you found out and then you got the belt? Kind of like that, too.

So just design the structure so that it floats. Maybe call it a boat, or a ship or something. Probably something that cruises around the ocean. I mean it worked for houses with wheels...you never hear of a trailer park getting hit by a tornado.

I'm not opposed to new input layouts, I've tried several for smartphones over the years, but this doesn't seem to be that alternative for me. The amount of gesturing required for a single letter is ridiculous, especially compared to something like swype. It may be more accurate, but looks extremely time consuming. Maybe a combination of swype and T9 (or whatever recognition (not keyboard layout) blackberries use for their Pearl style keyboards) would work better?

I have to admit it's been a while since I set up QOS on my home router. I seem to recall setting up some very basic things:

-Max download
-Max upload
-IP address, port number, priority level

By setting the max download to 4Mb (pretty sure dd-wrt recommended 80% of max) it should limit your connection. At least that's what I saw on my router when I set the max up to low.

In the time it took you to write this post you could have googled your router model + set up QOS and had the issue taken care of. I'll take Netflix's dynamic quality-change-based-on-available-bandwidth any day.

Engadget is reporting that the disks will stop working after 31 days, however it's not clear if that's all disks or just those that downloaded the update.

Anyone know for sure for those of us that are holding out for OtherOS?

I assume you also submitted it with a better headline.

I'm not seeing a walmart.

Can you name five security updates in the last two years that actually broke functionality for you? Not that my installation base is that huge, but I can think of maybe two updates out of hundreds where some level of functionality was actually lost to the average user.

Or the "America's Wild Goats, A Disappearing Nuisance" slide at the end. God I love The Onion.

People like you and I this is even worse. If my name was Joe Johnson I wouldn't be too worried about it. However running my real name through Google only results in a dozen results, all me. In those results is my FCC call sign registration with my (old) address and a few family photos. Pretty easy to figure out enough personal details from that info.

Because the FCC says so! They've never lied to anyone, right?