They are called graduate certificates. You take a couple of graduate level courses, and you get a graduate certificate. Often, you can get a certificate while you are on the path towards a masters.

C scifi trailer:

http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2011/03/06/Concept-trailer-for-old-school-scifi-flick-C-no-cgi-no-green-screen

I'm a big Baen customer myself, but my strategy for dealing with non-Baen authors has been to donate funds to my local library earmarked for the ebooks I want to read. This still doesn't help with the two major publishers who do not allow libraries to buy their ebooks.

Baen frequently releases CDROMs with specific hardcovers that contain near-complete back catalogs of that author, which can then be redistributed freely.

Check out the Annotated Baen Free Listing or the Fifth Imperium.

I use instantwatcher, which does use the API, so I never even noticed that there was a new interface.

Or quite likely... this is someone screwing with Sony and using the handle Geoff Levand.

Apparently, Geoff Levand was one of the people behind this release [1]. Geoff Levand is the programmer who worked for Sony supporting OtherOS and made the ill-fated and oft-quoted promise that Sony would never ever remove OtherOS from fat PS3s. [2] Looks like Geoff just kicked his former employer in the nuts. Go Geoff!

[1] http://psgroove.com/content.php?1029-PS3-Dual-Boot-GameOS-Linux-CFW-Released
[2] http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2010-February/007202.html

behold, thin air

Thanks, I had only previously seen people stating that you had to hit cancel, which didn't work for me.

So, if you can just let the login timeout, why ask for a login? Other than scaring people into updating their firmware?

Nonexistent.

Sony probably relied entirely on client side security, assuming that the PS3 was unbreakable.

That, and thanks to their attempts to keep people on the latest "secure" firmware, PSN services that shouldn't be PSN services like Netflix and Hulu are now hosed (except for some people who apparently use the same password for all their accounts and can hit cancel at the login screen). If Netflix hadn't allowed the PSN-free disc to be disabled, we could be using it right now.

On the bright side, because it is a phone, there is the DMCA exemption for jail breaking it.

Tycho from Penny Arcade praising Bujold here:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/11/26/additional-boys/

Great series of books. My understanding is that Memory is on the CD, but not actually linked from the TOC.

Amazon sales would say otherwise....

When Amazon says that Citadel has a salesrank of 2,675, that means there are 2,674 books in all categories currently selling better. Keep in mind, these are people who actually paid crazy deadtree prices. I got all of these books directly from Baen in an ebook bundle for just $15 a month... and I had them a month before they appeared in dead tree format. Granted, I would love if Baen had authors like Vernor Vinge and Iain Banks, but I find myself reading and buying a lot of Baen books simply because of the ebooks being DRM-free and the prices being so low.

Here are the books Baen published in January, 2010, with Amazon salesranks as of today.
Original publish dates are shown in parenthesis.

Citadel
John Ringo
Hardcover (January 4, 2011) 2,675

Cobra War Book II: Cobra Guardian
Timothy Zahn
Hardcover (January 4, 2011) 52,576

The Agent Gambit
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Paperback (January 4, 2011) 71,960

Torch of Freedom
David Weber & Eric Flint
Hardcover edition (November 17, 2009) 250,082
Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 13,870

The Tuloriad
John Ringo & Tom Kratman
Hardcover (October 6, 2009) 339,313
Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 16,079

Man-Kzin Wars XII
Larry Niven
Hardcover (February 3, 2009) 851,107
Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 29,951

Dragon's Ring
Dave Freer
Hardcover (October 6, 2009) 414,261
Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 426,955