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Incubuson Android account passwords are stored on disk in plain text

The title should probably mention that it only effects email. Comment #48 explains the reasoning behind it, and frankly seems perfectly reasonable.

Incubuson Notable iOS Developer Suggests API Boycott to Fight Patent Trolls

Can someone confirm for me if Apple require developers to use this API for in-app purchases? If that is the case, I really hope that they step up and do something about it soon.

Incubuson Ubuntu to use base-10 units for disk sizes: 1 megabyte == 1000 kB

They've done this for over a year now.

Incubuson Let us pay for this service so it won't go down

Reddit tried this (you can buy a reddit gold account with extra features). It hasn't worked.

Incubuson BitTorrent Has More Users Than Netflix and Hulu Combined--and Doubled

Be available outside the US.

Incubuson G-Wan web server

Hardware is still cheaper than the extra hours developers will have to put in writing the "C scripts" (...) in the first place.

Incubuson 42% Of Mac OS X 10.6.5 Security Updates Were Fixing Bugs In Adobe Flash

I'm not a huge fan of flash and while the percentage seems rather huge, at least the problems are actually getting patched.

"Add in the fact that on the new MacBook Air, merely stripping Flash from the default OS X install adds two hours to the battery life"

I'd like to see this test replicated with some other technology filing in the gaps that Flash leaves when you remove it, otherwise this means nothing. Of course doing less will used less power. I suspect playing a video while browsing the web would have a similar (how ever probably slightly less significant) effect.

Incubuson Google's Inevitable Ruin Begins

Old men don't like it when things change, and assert their opinion as fact, trust me.

Incubuson Kindls DX (9.7" screen) for reading programming books

I have a Kindle 3, and while its not as large as the DX, I'd say it was still a good alternative to the real thing, but it depends a lot on how you want to read the book.

If you read the book from cover to cover then it'll be great. If you want to look up specifics in the book, then it'll be great for that too thanks to the search.

On the other hand, if you want to flick through the book reading the parts that interest you then paper is still much easier to use.

As for an iPad, I can't see how it would possible be any better than a dedicated ebook reader for reading programming books. I'd stick with my Kindle.

Incubuson Ubuntu - Brave New World? Or Jumping off a Cliff?

I certainly hope so, I just hope that they manage to pull it off.

I expect the next couple of releases to be garbage though, I just can't see them having enough time to make it fast and stable enough to be work using. If I'm wrong I'll be delighted.