Security through obfuscation/obscurity is when a company says "It's secure because it's proprietary." Seriously, because they have security experts looking at their implementation and critiquing it, by definition it's not security by obfuscation.

ASLR is a very important OS security mechanism. With DEP, which prevents hackers from simply placing an exploit in the application's own memory and executing that, hackers need to be able to determine where system libraries are in memory, in order to leverage them to execute their exploit code. If they get the memory location wrong, the exploited application will most likely crash (the stack will return to a memory location with unpredictable results). It isn't simply a matter of trying randomly, because they can't.

The patent, titled "Wireless network-based location approximation", describes packet analysis for determining location, which nobody denies was being done intentionally by Google, and says nothing of using payload data. This was what sparked the current wave of privacy inquiries anyway, as well as the incorrect comment that they weren't capturing payload data.

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Also, we might be in trouble if we were losing enough atmosphere to lose 500 Great Lakes worth of water in 30-40 years, especially considering there isn't much water vapor in the upper atmosphere, due to low temperature.

"Clarifies" is probably more correct. The prior article that indicates confirmation of navigation for the iPhone has no quoted text which actually confirms plans to bring navigation to other phones. And the above quote doesn't even read as "we won't bring navigation to the iPhone", but rather "we did not confirm we will bring navigation to the iPhone". I believe this is also in line with prior statements they've made on Google Maps Navigation, so it's not like they're really changing anything.

This comment seems really unintuitive so I looked around a little. Ice can actually form entirely without crystallization, by cooling it to ~137 C in a matter of milliseconds. The article also mentions that "pure water, in the absence of any nucleating surface, can remain in a supercooled liquid state down to temperatures as low as -40C". I guess that means that pure water will begin crystallizing at this temperature anyway.

What about tablet PCs and "smartbooks"? Manufacturers seem to think the market is trending towards C. This change makes sense especially considering tablet PCs' limited functionality as a productivity tool, as well as (relatively) limited hard disk space. Even following your assumption that just about everybody is or will be in category A, this change still makes sense for UNR. People in category A can still install OpenOffice or whatever other applications they want, just like they would on say Windows...or (perhaps more appropriate wrt your comment) just install Ubuntu Desktop.

The actual words per minute are probably easier for most people to compare to. Here are Mr. Gyford's results:

• Full sized QWERTY: 68.35 WPM
• iPhone SW keyboard: 44.80 WPM
• Treo HW keyboard: 41.05 WPM
• Pen and paper: 39.82 WPM
• Newton MessagePad: 23.81 WPM
• Palm Graffiti: 18.02 WPM

His QWERTY typing speed is pretty decent. At this speed, input with QWERTY is about 1.53 times his second result with the iPhone SW keyboard.

I was also wondering if the iPhone input software uses auto-completion. This could account for why his second pass was noticeably better than his first, which averaged 36.73 WPM, as well as why his input speed was pretty decent.

Hey, this thing is (supposedly) $199 and has a touch screen!

At least the exact same tablets running Android and Ubuntu do. At about 11:34, Mr. Subramanian says "Chromium today does not support touch screen...". So it's not the tablet hardware which doesn't include a touch screen, but the build of Chromium they're using.