What is desperately needed is a sticker to let you know if your beer has ever been permitted to sit on a loading dock too long, god forbid it might sit in the sun. Forget milk, we need to use this technology to win the war on skunky beer.

It's not too late to buy Windows 7 :)

With any luck they'll still be releasing security patches for that when Windows 9 comes out

Wow, that is a staggeringly ignorant thing to say. The truth is that the UK knew that creating the nation of Israel would destabilize the nation for the foreseeable future. You can find this out simply from Lawrence of Arabia, you don't even need to study history. We know the same thing. We pour money into Israel and it keeps the region locked into one form of conflict.

Why print? uSDHC cards are cheap. 16GB for ten bucks is not unusual, for sixteen bucks is easy. Printing won't save you from identifiers hidden in the documents, if that's what you're worried about.

I imagine if I wanted anonymity I'd take a directional wifi rig into the hills and point it at town...

The solution in house wiring is to terminate your Al with a small length of Cu. They used aluminum in mobile homes for a while to save weight. I've seen it cause an outlet fire. The solution is to get some copper ends which get attached to the aluminum wiring and then sealed on. I've never actually seen the fix done, I think they're crimped on and then either protected with a compound or with an epoxy or glue. I wonder if the same couldn't be done for existing data wiring.

You'd have a separate site for maintenance. This does sort of mandate some duplication of effort. Right now if you want to update your CMS core you have to do this through a shell, file manager, or ftp in most cases as it is. It's not a big stretch to have an admin site with its own codebase sufficient for performing updates. Content management etc would continue to be performed through the CMS as normal. You might or might not want to use the same auth tables.

Which is why we need both more grid capacity and more generating capacity. Then you can shut the worst places down, and they can reopen if they can get their shit together. Lather, rinse, repeat. I don't for a second imagine that some environmentalists can really stop all new nuclear plants in this country, so I'm imagining that there's some reason why TPTB doesn't actually want more built right now.

In fact, the difference is that the USA had not yet been depleted. It's well on its way now, and the dominance will come to an end.

I used to hang out with a bunch of guys who were tankers in the National Guard. It was one of their little hobbies to imagine ways in which the nation could be disrupted, and I enjoyed it as well. If you eavesdropped on one of our conversations you might have thought it was a good idea to lock us all up. But none of us were interested in doing anything like that; it was more a case of shaking our heads at how easy it would actually be to shut down whole cities completely. Our conclusion was that if terrorists were running rampant, nothing would ever get done in this country because it's so easy to cause a panic.

Only when I cook it myself, and not just if I buy any old thing that the USDA stamps either.

Yes, but if the NDK is used often they don't bother to include MIPS support. That's more work and it applies to vanishingly few users.

It's more like the brakes. The airbag is just for you. The brakes are important for both you and everyone else.

I think it's too much to pay, too. When I saw headsets that cost that much on the wall at Gamestop I just shook my head. But it's not that much money for someone without dependents. If it really enhances their life, I can see spending that much money. On the other hand, I can't personally see not kitbashing something myself rather than spending $250.

One of the punchiest ARM options is the quad-core RK3188. It has the least punchy GPU in the class, a clock-increased (by 25%) Mali400. However, this is the ARM-coupled GPU with the most functional OSS driver. It is already possible to boot Linux on RK3188 directly, and play Quake3, with an OSS driver. OHI, there is now an installer. However, it does not appear that the installer includes recovery. Hmm, reading further, it does not include the accelerated video driver or working bluetooth either, so I guess I'll stick with Finless for now on my MK908. I want to run Linux for a variety of reasons, not least PS3 BD Remote support.

With that said, if the MIPS tools are better, I'd still rather have MIPS for a Linux box. It's not that interesting for Android though, since the majority of the Android world is on ARM.

Also, it's possibly notable that nVidia has stated repeatedly that Tegra's GPU isn't encumbered by agreements with other corporations as their desktop GPUs are, and that they will continue to release increased amounts of driver source code for that platform. I'm not holding my breath, of course.

We've already seen thin film panels made here on earth consisting of many small cells, called Nanosolar. For a while someone was buying up all their output, I have no idea WTF is up now. If you poke a hole in the panel, they keep working, because of the way they're designed.