evilswan

Bravo.

Cool - I wish you well with it.

Neat idea. The app runs in the background and tracks when you move to a new location.

You say it uses very little extra battery - and also that it may affect battery life.

Do you have any test data for how it affects the device battery lifespan?

RIM have likely already complied with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA):

See also: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/500-words-into-the-future-10014...

This could just be the most significant news in all of human history. Mind blowing that there's now evidence that the building blocks of life exist off-Earth.

Meh. Weak, and ending by trying to conflate Anon/Lulz with China's wholesale theft of industrial data is flimsy.

This is being reversioned for the US as a Scion IQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_iQ

For the same use-case, a very quick howto on a disposable EC2 proxy for coffee shop browsing...

http://flatterline.com/index.php/2009/04/23/disposable-proxy...

I think it was a poorly-developed: "things can change fast on the internet these days".

"...but you have to be aware of some edge cases"

There's the reason.

Don't turn to CNN for your technology industry predictions. They're fine reporting facts, but predictions are hard for anyone!

That'll do nicely, sir.

Tough job making any prediction like this.

They were right about Aurin Sarin and Sony - but for the wrong reasons.

Bang goes the only reason to ever visit Starbucks.

The name will hold them back.

This is even better.

The site is REALLY slow right now.

Have you tried viewing the html - there's some neat ASCII art at the top.

If the "innovations" in Android were already covered by prior patents; they weren't innovations at all, were they?

Not necessarily my point of view, but isn't that how patents should work? Protecting prior art.

This is really, really clever.

Designed to be sluggish?

Nice - interesting that EC2 instances vary so wildly in their performance. Will Amazon ever attempt to spot and 'repair' sluggish instances?

Question: each 'server' is made up of cheap commodity hardware - but is the storage side of things handled elsewhere? YouTube alone takes 2 days worth of new video every minute - and stores multiple bitrate versions and the source video. That alone, for example, would cause problem for 900,000 commodity-sized hard disks...

Yes true, but the reason isn't tabbing.

So.. it plots tweets on a map.

I live in a sparsely-populated area, so there'd never be the density of my Twitter friends to make it work for me.

+1

Article says: "This is because users don’t have to tab as much."

Strongly disagree - 'average', non-technical users simply don't tab between fields. They mouse and click, mouse and click, etc.

I can't remember ever seeing a user in a field test (I do UI testing) use tab to traverse a form.

Wouldn't the wiki-community-spirit help prevent this kind of thing? Guess not, it'd be one person vs another.

Very nice - though some of the content integration mentioned would be a nice option.

Are identical plates duplicated across states - if so, then yep, a state too! (us-ca, us-ny, etc would work)

Windows!?

Totally agree