I own a GTA02 and it was hardly useful as a full time phone. Sometimes it would fail to come out of suspend when called, sometimes lock up and need rebooting and other faults. It's power management wasn't that good either - 24 hours per charge if that. It lives in a drawer now, I bought a Galaxy S3 to replace it.

The GTA04 OpenPhoenix replacement board is a joke. 666 Euros ($AU 1000). It does not have a fully working kernel yet, there are various kernel versions with varying degrees of functionality. Even battery charging is broken. Not many people on the mailing list use it as a day to day phone near as I can tell.

While the idea was good, how did Golden Delicious (who sell the GTA04) think they were going to make this work without a kernel developer?

These phones are so secure that you are lucky if you can make or receive a call on them.

It should have been named "Suicidal SSD"

Wouldn't

"Brian Krebs Calls Police, Then Cybercriminals Have Heroin Delivered "

be a headline that is more representitive of the actual story.

I wonder when they are going to email the userbase with this announcement. I have received no email from them. Perhaps the hacker could alert the userbase as a community spirited gesture.

a semiconductor device - a triac - is more widely used for AC switching than relays

Perhaps the LHA project could on-sell those non-higgs partial proton fragments to physicists who don't have access to a super-collider.

Win for everyone!!

hunt itinerant bears?

To cook dodo successfully, you need the dodo recipe.

(1) Put dodo bits and a rock in a pot of boiling water.
(2) When rock is tender (easily push a fork through it) - dodo is done
(3) Season as desired.

I am still running Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 3.5 on my Acer 3620 laptop (I am typing this on it). I manually upgrade stuff here and there but find it incredibly stable.

What about internet supplied products such as music downloads. There is no reason at all us Australians should pay $1.69 when he same track is $0.99 in the US. Remoteness is not a factor. It is select companies deliberately price gouging us because they feel the market will bear it. I for one look forward to law changes to correct this problem.