Do you have a link to this specific research or an article about it?

There is http://www.bewelcome.org/ which was started around the time couchsurfing became commercial.

It's not as big, but still usable. And fewer surfers means less competition for couches.

Don't forget they were the first to really embrace USB.

I agree with you and I think a few people do recognize the problem. What we need is a system that allows the app companies like Dropbox and kindles to innovate and make money but without the lock-in.

For example Dropbox. Much of there success is just because of the lock-in. They are expensive and lack features like real encryption but because they built the most user friendly interface and spent lots of money for integration with other parties, the only people that can compete are Microsoft and Google.

It's a hard problem to solve because the market seems to go in the opposite direction - openness just isn't attractive.

I would guess the best way to break out of this situation is to develop a ecosystem where the advantages of openness are accessible by the general public. But that means user friendly, not here are 100 apps that support rsync, another 100 service providers and go figure out which combination is best for you then install, sign-up, configure and pay.

I'm really surprised how many highly rated comments claim extradition from the UK would be easier. Extradition from Sweden to the US would almost certainly happen. Take for example this fact:

Sweden has a bilateral agreement with the United States which would allow it to surrender Julian Assange without going through the traditional tests and standards of regular, lengthy extradition procedures.

How could anyone reasonably expect him to willfully submit to that? It seems highly likely he would end up rotting in a US jail for life, unheard and unseen.

http://www.slashnet.org/ channel #slashdot

Nice comment. Of course, it's not just calendars but basically everything; finding something as simple as a reliable and scalable email client is a challenge.

If you (or other posters) have some thoughts about how we might be able to fix this I'd love to hear it. Next month I'm going to start working full-time on trying to solve this problem because I hope the lack of success is just due too few attempts. Judging by your other replies, the issue is barely even recognized.

09:16:31> dig www.healthcare.gov @4.4.4.4
^C 09:18:15> dig www.healthcare.gov @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> www.healthcare.gov @8.8.8.8
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8850
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.healthcare.gov. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.healthcare.gov. 28 IN CNAME www.geodirector.hc.gov.akadns.net.
www.geodirector.hc.gov.akadns.net. 28 IN CNAME bh.georedirector.akadns.net.
bh.georedirector.akadns.net. 11649 IN A 127.0.0.1

;; Query time: 47 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sun Dec 1 09:18:17 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 130

I agree with the rest of your comment, but I don't get this part. Service in Europe is horrible; it's one of the few things I miss about the states.

I think you get that message because your apps admin didn't enable profiles.

Anyway, I have an apps domain and got invited to google+ with my apps email and everything worked fine. I'm using it now.

Without knowing the # of households with cable, how can we see the significance of this drop?

No, I don't particularly like the action parts of Mass Effect anyway. For me it's all about the storyline, meeting characters and making though decisions.

I like ME1 a lot, but altough it's story is a bit more epic than it's sequel, the way the story is told in part 2 is a lot more engaging and immerse. The dialog is better and also brought better visually by offering more interesting camera movement.

And even though the universe to explore is smaller in part 2, it's also a lot nicer, offering a few hub worlds instead of just one large Citadel and all of the landing points are actually nicely designed levels instead of generic repetitive generated worlds.

All in all ME2 just feels more refined and realistic, while still offering a great story and interesting charactars and dialog. What's not to like?

One thing many first-day reviews of opera-mini said was that it was much faster then safari, even while on wifi.

I tried it yesterday (on wifi, since i have an ipod, not an iphone), and opera mini took serious time connecting to the opera servers, after which loading was fast. however, the opera-server connection pretty much killed it for me..

Opera mini is a nice try, and some things do improve on safari, but on the whole, what i really want is opera Mobile (and once the app store is open enough, CHROME) for the iphone/ipod