Even if Google don't see a dime out of Android, it helps to bring down locked alternatives such as the SO on the IPhone and Windows Mobile. That helps to keep the market clean and filled with options.

The other day I was walking on the street and saw a graffiti that resumes (IMO) the current state of the problem between Grupo Clarin and the Government, but from the side that matters, which is the side of the people: The government pees on us and the media tell us that it is raining. This basically resumes who is who here. Argentina is VERY divided and almost everyone takes one side or the other without actually thinking that neither of the parties is makes any "good" to our society. And this is historical. This is why we were once a world power and now we're even less than a 3rd world country. Our story is really really sad. And as I said, neither Fibertel nor the Government is right. Grupo Clarin *probably* broke some laws but as other poster said here, it's not cool to have laws for an ISP to operate, I didn't knew that there was laws covering that. And the Government is being totally and completely biased on this decision. I hate the companies and my Government. Sorry. I really think we as Argentinians need to start thinking for ourselves.

I'm almost every day at my cave programming and that stuff. In 2009 I decided to go to the Rally that took place in Cordoba, Argentina (I'm from the neighboring province Santa Fe) and after I went back I started to get spam SMS's that advertised Rally related stuff. I have Telecom Personal and of course, I can confirm they either sell or use (themselves) my location info to at least try to sell me stuff. I can only assume they actually use location data for that and other "darker" purposes.

May I ask where did you come with that ?

As an Argentinian I must say that in the despicable scale of 1 to 10, this ranks as a cold cold 0.1
We're used to not react to terrible, terrible things they do.
We have been desensitized, and when you let them do whatever they like you don't have a country anymore.

This is our sad sad reality, you people (Greece to point a fresh example) are just starting to see what we've been through since forever.

I know people could have many reasons for updating winxp but I found myself doing a TON of things without the need to update the machine at all for years. Just disable the automatic updates and update it manually if required. Use another browser than IE and that's it ... I don't even have an antivirus, I just have a virtual machine with xp and nod32 in case I need to test some files and that's it. I never, never, NEVER have any problems.

As you say, it's definitely something video related, possibly on the detection of the monitor. I can confirm (if it's actually the same bug) this isn't triggered neither by updates nor malware (as I really know what I do with my machines). The black screen went away by just selecting any other settings in the video configuration panel with me lighting the screen (LCD) with a lamp and trying to see what was going on in the screen (thankfully I still have a good eyesight). What baffles me is that this is totally random as I use the boxes for very specific tasks and anyway the bug was somehow triggered. Carlos

It's something video related, I've seen this bug in the two machines (Win7, can't speak for Vista) I own and for some reason the monitor get "reset" to 59 Hz instead of 60 Hz and I get the black screen. The funny thing is that is the LCD lamp is not turned on but the screen does, so if you put some light in front of the screen you'll still be able to see something in the screen. This one and a USB bug that prevents the mouse getting detected was sufficient to go back to XP. I can't believe how these bugs pass QC. And sorry for my possibly bad english. Carlos

While those youtube videos are truly amazing, I have a better idea: - same keyboard ($1 or $2). - avr32 ($10 on digikey). - 2 GB SD card ($9 on ebay). - another $ 30 for 64 MB or so memory, ethernet and several components. - probably add a vga port but make it's primary output a TV just like the NES. There you have a fully functional PC with linux for less than $ 50 and you can do current things with that system. When I was a kid, I used a lot my Spectrum and I didn't died bc it was plugged to a TV set so I think this is definitely the gay to go for 3rd world countries.