You don't have to jailbreak to get any of the functionality you listed. There are several ssh apps in the app store as well as apps for everything you listed.

Sunspider is a bigger facepalm. When it first came out, it re-downloaded scripts every time it used them, and factored that into the scores. I recall trying it on ADSL, and getting amazingly better results than anyone on dialup or slow broadband.

It seems to be okay now, but back then it was a noob benchmark.

A TV can just run a RF module constantly, it only draws 10-40mA. If you want a bit more agressive power saving, you can duty cycle the RF module, by listen a few times pr. second. This way you can bring average current consumed while listening for RF commands down into 5uA on average

Within bluetooth space, BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) might see some use in remote controls. This protocol variant have a facility to keep end nodes silent except when they are used.

However RF4CE (Now zigbee rf4ce, or zigbee for consumer electronics), a standard built on top of IEEE 802.15.4 currently seems to have a lot more traction in becoming the standard that replaces IR remotes.

Don't worry too much about the energy cost in listen-before-talk or channel hopping. This only happes whenever the remote sends a packet, which will be very sparse in comparison to idle time. The most critical power consumption factor is the idle currents as the components sit in their lowest standby state waiting for the user to press a button.

Use Version Cue. You already have it. It comes with creative suite. If you don't have a server, and don't have the money for one, you can install it on the individual work stations, and it "looks" like you're working off of individual Macs - but what is ACTUALLY happening is copy down, copy back, but only the different bits (at least in CS3 and above.) It's ludicrously easy to administer, and it can hold a ton of (design) data before it starts to complain.

A hardcoded authentication string is no good, because anyone who gets their hands on and analyzes one of the infected systems can find out how to forge the commands.

To prevent this, you need public-key cryptography. Which means the communication channel has to have enough bits to accommodate the cryptographic signature.

Really? As long as you can't pay your hookers & blackjack with PayPal, it'll be useless.

You can pay hookers with PayPal (just use send money). You can't buy porn with it. There's a difference.

Precedents matter also in civil law, but they are only there to interpret the written law for certain cases.

Several precedents in Sweden have for example thrown out local legislation when it has not been compliant with EU law or the ECHR. In most cases where EU-law is involved, the judges would request an opinion from the EU/EC-court on how they should judge when the laws are in conflict. Lower courts have been known to do this.

If it provided that functionality, then the specialization wouldn't be needed - you'd just call HasCompass() and it would give you all the compass data necessary. The fact that the libraries are buggy is what causes the issue in the first place.

Insurance companies (at least auto/property) are regulated by their respective states. They are considered financial institutions, sort of like banks and yet not like them at all.

There are basically 3 ways they can change their rates, depending on the state board of insurance where they do business.

1)Change your rates, whenever you want, we don't care, just file them with us so we know what they are.
2)File your rates with us, and if we don't smack you down within X days, feel free to implement them.
3)File your requested changes with us, and we will let you know whether they are acceptable or not. You must continue to charge existing rates until you hear back from us.

Most states are either #2 or #3. They are already under the thumb of the state to a degree and operating as the state has explicitly given them permission to operate, so no need for bribery.

Now, I suppose it could still happen for law changes, but again, the "government" has to approve everything they do anyway.

Try using Apple HW instead of just bashing it. There are a lot of MB/MBP out there running MS crap because they are so reliable, and actually run software without machinations. Rating a new version of an OS as a service pack is ludicrous. Maybe you ought to actually use a permissions based OS before you run your keys the next time

Yes, the export format is important to this...but I only use gmax.

*sigh* Now we have a mod abusing "overrated" on a post that was never uprated, and thus escaping metamod.

I'll say it again: editors can't delete articles, and articles aren't deleted without warning. Those are facts. The OP was mistaken, I'm afraid.

(Rather than complaining about Wikipedia editors (who can be anyone), perhaps we should complain about the poor state of moderation on Slashdot, especially as mod points now seem to be given out to a subset of people, also making it far easier to abuse...)

Repeat after me. I want my applications locally, where I can use them regardless of having a network or not.

The intent is for that facility to be provided by web apps with offline functionality, something that has been important to Google since before Chrome OS was conceived (or, at least, announced as something they were working on.)

The whole world could burn down and I could still do my work with my PC (as long as I survived).

The only initial barrier to do that with Chrome seems to be that the first time a user logs on, network connectivity and a Google Account is required, although Google has stated that that initial limitation is just that: they want to work with other authentication sources, specifically they've cited having an OpenID alternative as a goal. While this still requires network connectivity, something as simple as a home LAN with an lightweight server doing authentication would work. And, since Chrome OS is targetted for netbooks, a certain degree of network dependency is not as critical as it would be if it was intended to be a general-purpose desktop OS.

Now, you may have an issue with the entire idea of a netbook-specific OS and prefer just a general purpose desktop OS with slight visual adaptation to the limit screen real estate -- and that's certainly a reasonable preference. But I don't think that all netbook users are going to share that preference.

I don't think a great deal of thought actually went into it.

I think that its pretty clear from reading the pages on the design and plans that a great deal of thought has gone into it.

I think its equally clear that what has been released has not realized all of the things that are planned for it, and that it is not intended to be a production release, a release candidate, a beta, or even an alpha release, but more an opening up of the development code base and the work-in-progress plans to public view and comment.

You don't even need a second eye, or at least, you don't need a parallax between them. Simply focusing on an object gives a good idea of its distance. To bring an object at a certain distance into focus, the eye muscles must contract "just so", allowing an estimation of that distance.

An then of course there is our brains, which interpret what we see. This is the reason why we can still have the illusion of 3D when looking at a truly two dimensional picture or TV screen. Of course, we can also be fooled, for example by cartoons or diagrams, into seeing 3D where none truely exists.

Our eyes really are designed to see in 3D. The grandparent appears to be suffering from chronic smartalecitis.