To be honest, that seems like a reasonable life considering what it is doing. For those that feel it is a deal-breaker, I'm sure there are options to extend the battery.

Just because the particular file only exists on your computer for the use of watching a single time (in a buffer) and then being deleted doesn't mean you haven't committed copyright infringement. Any prosecution with a half-decent argument will get that out in the open with an expert witness first thing.

Or way behind since iOS 4 runs like crap on the iPhone 3G

So who says someone couldn't just walk up to the giant gatherings *outside* a stadium and blow those people up? Or release a highly poisonous chemical into the water system for the stadium? I doubt such a system would actually do much to increase security. I know they haven't done much for the air-based transport in the US.

Hosts.txt isn't a well-known thing? I would categorize it as more of a known-but-inefficient thing, since you can typically do redirection and other stuff hosts.txt does at the firewall level, negating the need for some complex P2P setup.

Here we go *again*.

If this is the case, then the US Government should be allowed to keep files on us for one year, but no longer. Quid Pro Quo.

The tricky part comes in at the point that, while most CEOs have at least a basic understanding of accounting and other departments under their watch, IT departments are *typically* a foreign land to the understanding of those in charge. Even if they wanted to audit proper usage of root it would be difficult or impossible. Small businesses have it hardest. At least in the larger ones there's a layering system so you can have higher-ups in IT auditing the lower guys.

If you don't trust your sysadmin, they shouldn't be your sysadmin. Just like the accounting department probably has the ability to steal a certain sum of money before anyone will notice, your sysadmin is given responsibilities that could potentially cause grief if they are on the wrong team.

I also use Connectbot. I have a Droid so the physical keyboard makes it extremely easy to use. And there's Teamviewer out for Android now also that does a VNC-type connection.

Is it bad I read this as "Sperm rates dropping, due to Skype update?" Then I remembered the previous article.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/187269/look-out-indy I can only imagine what kind of awful plans for successful dead movie stars he has conjured up in his head.

If you were smart enough to know what Ubuntu was, I'm surprised you aren't smart enough to boot the LiveCD again and format the partition as NTFS.

Amazon does this. I can't count the number of times I've done research and bought something, and then the next day received targeted advertising by Amazon to my email. Funny thing is it doesn't bother me terribly much since I am usually interested in hearing what Amazon recommends (when it is something I'm actually interested enough in to buy).

Silverlight has absolutely abysmal support on Linux. Seems like the only Silverlight applications that are actually publicly use stuff not included in Moonlight. Flash may use what seems like an unnecessary amount of CPU, but at least it works. Booting a VM just to watch online video hardly seems worth it when there are other easier (less legal) alternatives.