Except, according to the article, the contracting company wanted to use a regular RDBMS, but the government insisted on MarkLogic, which is a NoSQL solution, not relational.

The cool thing about developing apps for this phone is that should be fairly simple for Mozilla to provide a compatibility wrapper for Android and iOS, so you get cross-phone app development.

This may be useful:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/12/static-workspaces/

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/

Ctrl-Shift-n from terminal opens a new window. Ctrl-Shift-t opens a new tab, which I prefer.

There ought to be an extension for this... (One thing that bugs me about Gnome is there is so much potential in the extensions, but no one is writing them!)

From http://rainhilltrials.blogspot.ca/2011/09/changing-primary-display-in-gnome-3.html:

You just have to edit the file: ~/.config/monitors.xml

(Notice that this it's a "personal" config, so you have to do this inside of every acount you like this behaviour... That's why the ~/ wich means "my personal home dir").

where you can see an XML text detailing all displays configurations. Each one have a "primary" config line like this:

yes

Just put "yes" wherever you like to be your primary display and "no" in the other one(s)...

Ah, I see it was probably stealing card numbers stored or entered into computers using keyloggers or other malware, so never mind the TLS.

Why aren't the connections with card processors encrypted end-to-end with SSL/TLS? Then the wifi security, which is outside the card processors' hands, would be irrelevant, and the card numbers would not be exposed to internet routers either. This is the responsibility of the card processors IMO. Everyone knows you don't send credit card numbers over the internet without TLS.

Sure, there may be some grey areas as to exactly when copyright applies and the GPL comes into effect. But the real risk Android takes by operating in this area is that the copyright holders themselves will feel violated enough by their actions that they will spend the time and money to sue you with no clear-cut probability of winning. Are any Linux copyright holders feeling that violated by the Apache-licensed Android? Do they have enough resources to take on Google over a legal grey area?

Another reason sites should enable HTTPS by default everywhere.

Kids don't weigh as much as adults, in general, so the quality of their furniture isn't as important. Also because they have so much fidgety energy.

The ISPs say they've never been approached by a content provider with a request to pay for priority transmission... Presumably the content providers have thought about it. Maybe it's just not worth spending the money on?

I think the system they're looking for is the single transferable vote. With cumulative voting, various interests have to figure out how many candidates they have the numbers to elect and then organize their voters ahead of the election. With STV, the system itself does this all for them and gives fair, proportional results.

The playkey, unlike the title folder, can't be copied

Bwahahaha!!!

Google docs even lets you organize split files in a folder and share the whole lot together. Death to rapidshare!

Google will also allow some data and applications to be accessed offline. Users will be able to listen to music and read eBooks without an internet connection, for example, as well as accessing files stored on USB flash drives. Any application that supports HTML5's offline mode will also be accessible without a net connection.

This basically opens up multitudes of possibilities for offline apps. If you can plug in a USB flash drive, why not a USB hard drive? If you can store and listen to music offline, why not video? And if everything runs in the browser, it just means that the API is javascript. You can do a lot with javascript.

Also, being open source means that forks can add whatever regular linux functionality they want.

I'm interested in what they're doing with X11. Anyone looked at the code?