Get a noname Chinese phone. Distributing Google's Android apps/services requires a contract with Google (remember how Cyanogenmod was forced to stop distributing Market/Gmail/Google Maps?), and so small companies distribute only the free, open-sourced version of Android. But I have to warn you, Amazon App Store is much worse - less software and they don't pay app developers if they decide to use an app in their "free app of the day" promotion.

Chinese engineers know English pretty well. After all, they have to communicate with customers and do onsite work. Some Chinese engineers may choose to immigrate to America.
Chinese will only be needed in case you're supervising assembly line workers.

Russia has been building nuclear-powered ships for decades.

You're joking, right? Altavista was only good for simple 1-2 word queries, searching for something like "HP Laserjet 5L Windows NT drivers" resulted in tons of pages containing just the word "Windows" or "HP" or "drivers". I don't even think the results were sorted by rank, I used to find what I was looking on page 20!
It was possible to force searching for pages with all words, but this usually resulted in someone's Geocities or Angelfire page with a story how someone bought a new printer.

Javascript may be OK for small applications, but it's using Java+HTML5 to write complex enterprisey stuff is insane.

SPARC is the only thing Oracle is protecting. All those " sucks, move to a much faster Oracle SPARC server" ads, the early retirement of Oracle for Itanium. And they're actively spreading the message that their SPARC box is optimized for Oracle, so it's worth more.

Servers usually go down after people stop buying the game.
Why waste money on something that doesn't generate as much cash as it used to? For example, Microsoft shut down the PlaysForSure DRM server, without refundung puchased songs. If you're lucky, the vendor will create a patch to remove DRM once the servers go down.

WGA is not as bad (just a serial number check for installation of optional software). Windows Activation is much, much worse. If your PC dies then have fun calling support and proving that you're replacing a PC and not installing the same copy everywhere. Too many reinstalls? Suspicious activity. This is almost as bad as buying virtual stuff in online games.

I read Slashdot and I didn't know the planned Java 7 release date. Which makes WSJ readers even less likely know or care when Java 7 should have been released.

Don't forget that the facebook "like" buttons are collecting data on which sites you're visiting.

Probably to get a life.

A smaller screen means a smaller keyboard, netbooks with screens smaller than 10 inches offer an awful typing experience.

This looks pretty close to [Sony]Ericcson's chargers. The connector can be only removed from a tilted position and tilting wipes the contacts. I guess magsafe works on the same principle. Or possibly the spring loaded contacts can move sideways when centering.

I always thought that wiping is bad for electronics - the concacts are constantly scratched along the same path and can be completely worn out. If you look at an old or heavily used USB or memory card, the contacts are a mess.

All the "Facebook Like", "+1" and "Post to Buzz" buttons are placed in iframes. Some browsers (e.g. chrome) isolate these iframes from the rest of the page (for protection from XSS?), and each button in Chrome takes about 8-20 megs of RAM. Since some websites put tens of these buttons, a single webpage can take up to 200-400 megs of RAM.

Password pharses are easier to intercept (and remember) if someone is looking over your shoulder. Even if they skip a character or two they could still guess the word.