It's popular to talk about why 'unlocked' phones, but I would wager that the vast majority of unlocked phone buyers do not care that the phone is unlocked. It's irrelevant. We're not planning to switch networks. It's the contract that is the problem. Locked phones are fine as long as they're off contract. And off contract is exactly where cell companies don't want their customers to be.

Funny how the miraculous solution to every problem anyone has with Linux is always just about to go in with the next version. Sure the current one sucks, but we promise the next one is totally different! Sigh.

He was at our graduation ceremony this past May (Hopkins 10) getting an honorary degree, in fact.

What monitor type are you using? Remember that most PC monitors are TN type, which have terrible vertical viewing angles. You don't normally notice vertical angles -- until you turn it sideways and discover massive color shifts. IPS screens (Dell has a whole line now) are vastly better.

Which is part of the Entertainment and Devices divison of MS, for some crazy reason.

Many "normal" cars that are meant to be even vaguely sporty or fun to drive run a degree or two of negative camber as well. It's pretty much vital for reasonable cornering.

Classic Sun style move. There are plenty of open source textbook efforts out there. Instead of contributing to them, start a new effort, pull a bunch of media hype, and generally sabotage everyone else without even acknowledging them -- all while providing mediocre results. Sun did it for twenty years and I guess it's a McNealy signature.

This tech is already in the Xbox 360, and has been from the day it launched. It's used slightly differently, mainly to prevent firmware downgrades. But it seems likely that hardware fuses are quietly tripped when you mod the console so that MS can do their mass bannings. So claims that users will accidentally trip it are perhaps far-fetched.

I have a Google account and a Google Apps account. The extent to which these two work varies, with Google Docs failing miserably about a third of the time. It gets supremely confused by this and invariably tries to access Apps with my public Google account.

Now imagine Ballmer looked at these awful apps like iTunes degrading his platform, and announced all Windows apps must be in C++ or C#.

I'm shocked, shocked to find out people are writing tech columns just for page views.

Yep, right until the NEXT feature comes out that breaks the OS that says it can handle the truth. Now you need TWO "don't lie to me" commands. Repeat ad infinitum.

Yeah, I think this might actually be the literal definition of FUD. We could just go over to UrbanDictionary and add an entry with a link back to this story.

Agreed -- it IS rather bad, but generally speaking you're not expecting attacks from inside your LAN. As Windows vulnerabilities go, this isn't horrible in a practical sense.

Actually, quite a few companies ship laptops in this configuration. It allows them to advertise the 4 GB, and very nearly none of their audience will ever be wise to it. The last time I saw this was with a machine purchased literally two weeks ago. It's now happily churning along with Win7 x64, no functionality missing.