An informed estimate of the power consumption of the internet was 868 billion kWh per year in 2007.

Gopher is installed by default on most builds of Firefox. Try this in your address bar: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world

This is a very negative statement, and from a Nokia vice president no less. It seems a very strange thing to say at the time of launching a new device.

I hope Nokia is not buttering us up for DRM and lockdown in "Step 5 of 5"...

Meanwhile, the N900 will succeed wildly if Nokia's marketeers allow it to. We tech people like the device because of its specs, but where are the simple statements of the benefits for its other market sectors?

"Open source Linux with a root shell" is good enough for me, but what about "A phone with a real Mozilla-based browser", or "A music player with stereo speakers built-in", or even "N900 - comes with apps".

No I disagree. Doing this in public means everyone understands exactly what's going on. No room for misunderstandings.

And thanks Alan for all your hard work for Linux over the years.

And to think, at University in 1977 we were running Unix on a PDP-11 with 64kB RAM. Sixteen concurrent users too, on hardcopy DECwriter terminals (although we couldn't all compile at the same instant). I kid you not!

The meaning of the black swan is simply that we can't always expect to predict the future by extrapolating from known trends.

See: What does the black swan have to do with predicting the future?

Transflectives are readable in direct sunlight. You can check your email or navigate a map. But the color is terrible when they're transflecting, and you wouldn't want to watch a movie on one in direct sunshine. (based on my experience with the Nokia N810)

We regularly get homework questions asked (for payment) at uclue.com. Most of the researchers don't like to answer homework questions, so we developed the following policy:

"We are delighted to assist customers with their homework. We can provide information, explanations, links and resources. We do not provide homework answers in finished form, such as essays or answers to tests."

Additionally, we have a clarification process so that we can discuss the homework with the customer and help to educate them. If we were to provide raw answers we would feel very ... empty.

There's one battery in the screen, and one in the keyboard.

Take a look at this video of the Panasonic P905i. At first it looks like it has a similar form factor to the Android G1, until they morph it from a slider to a flip-phone and pull out the digital TV aerial. Seriously cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6J5EtiQ1ps

You could start with O'Reilly's "Web Security, Privacy & Commerce" by Simson Garfinkel. It's a good high-level holistic view. Then you can drill down to specific books or websites about PHP and MySQL security.

From the IWF's own website:

The IWF is the only authorised organisation in the UK operating an internet âhotlineâ(TM) for the public and IT professionals to report their exposure to potentially illegal content online ... The IWF work in partnership with UK Government departments such as the Home Office and the Department of Trade and Industry ... The IWF is funded by the EU [i.e. the European Govt] and the UK internet industry

The parent's claim that the IWF is not affiliated with the UK Government might be true on some level, but in practice they're in bed together.