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then one paying customer can take the source and fork it back out to everybody else for gratis.

And that's vTiger, see a comparative review between the two.

The article doesn't say what kids of screens would be used but I'm assuming some kind of LCD.

Few days back I was looking at paper like display called E-Ink that could display contents in b/w. The coolest feature was, the image was there even when the power was cut off, making it less hungry for power. The images looked cool and I could fold the display like a paper as well.

I suppose, these kind of displays might work in these kind of applications.

There's been some progress since this paper.

It's not there yet, but there's hope.

The good news is this will eventually stop the botnets. One all that computing power is reliably usable, there's profit motive to defend it.

Great, so when this update goes live I get to look forward to titles like 'iPhone can now multi-task, competitors scrambles to do the same.' just like I do with the iPad and reading how companies are now 'just making' tablet PC's, to compete against Apples iPad tablet even though computer makers have been making them for years...

Here are the links I promised earlier
Annoyingly enough I can't find the survey itself, but I have found a few articles dating from 2001 to 2009, concerning the subject.
If anyone is interested the survey was, as far as I can tell, carried out by Opinion Health on behalf of Bayer Schering Pharma AG

Dated July 16th 2001 - BBC. Article on Teenage myths about contraceptives
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1441898.stm

Dated May 21st 2005 - Medical News Today. Article on the (mis)use of contraceptives
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/24840.php

Dated August 20th 2006 - The Medical News. Article on rising STD's(STI's in the article) and the appearent lack of sex ed
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/08/20/19538.aspx

Dated September 5th 2009 - Health News. Blog referring to the suvey, which I can't find
http://blog.taragana.com/health/2009/09/05/kebabs-coca-cola-chocolate-contraceptive-myths-still-rampant-in-uk-11384/

Date September 7th 2009 - Netdoctor. Article referring the the survey
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/interactive/news/theme_news_detail.php?id=19348358&tab_id=131

and just for good measure here's the wiki statistics on British teen pregnancy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_pregnancy_and_sexual_health_in_the_United_Kingdom

More details on the various players here.

People were willing to pay to get copies of the personal medical records of celebrities. What would they be willing to pay to get the scanner images of those individuals?

Former UCLA hospital worker who sold records of celebrities dies before sentencing

I'll have you know that using a strawman argument can be used to make a valid argument, which I did.

But you didn't. You can still move around in an elevator. But when your seatbelt gets jammed while wearing it you are not free to move much if at all. At least in an elevator you're not strapped down so that if the doors opens you can jump out. Wasn't there something in the news recently about a couple of kids being trapped in a burning car and how some bystanders rushed to save them got burnt too? Here, I think this might be it, Off-duty firefighters, bystanders rescue woman, 2 children from burning SUV in Milwaukee. Ah here we go, "John Rechlitz reached in again but couldn't find the seat belt release; someone gave him a knife to cut the car seat's restraints."

Falcon

Fossils are not necessarily indications of dead ends. We certainly have found fossils of creatures whose offspring evolved into something that is still around. For example we have found fossils of rabbit-sized things with big teeth whose offspring evolved into pig-sized tusked things whose offspring evolved into 50,000-year-ago elephants, whose offspring evolved into modern elephants.

And as the last example shows, the existence of fossils of a species doesn't necessarily mean the species is extinct. Most fossils are so old that their offspring have changed so much that we would not call them the same species. But in cases of recent fossilization (which is unusual, of course) it's possible that there could be fossils of a species as well as living modern examples of it.

A few years back I did this with a colleague, we actually investigated 3 solutions; 2 commercial and one linux script based, in the end the one that won easily was the Linux script.

Basically using iproute2 and some nice scripts gives you the ability to load balance your outbound packets and then using some relatively simple scripts to monitor each remote peer for automatic failover.

A quick google turns up this blogger who sounds (from a quick skim) like he's doing the same thing: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-load-balancing-failover-with-dual-multi-wan-adsl-cable-connections-on-linux/

Unfortunately I can't remember the commercial solutions we tested (this was 4-5 years ago!), but although they did exactly what you wanted perfectly, our problem was that we were doing this for a managed services company who ran 150+ IPSEC VPN's over those (at the time) 3 bonded ADSL connections, needless to say the commercial solutions had never imagined anyone trying to statefully balance that many VPNs! However with some tweaking (to be honest a LOT of tweaking) we got the Linux solution working a treat, even with nearly seamless failover.

Google is your friend on this one.

There are several other countries (Venezuela comes to mind) that are watching Iran push the international community around and may feel they can do the same exact thing and go down the road of nuclear arming.

Especially worrying since Venezuela has been known to give weapons to rebel groups in neighboring countries.

in trying to figure out how the earth's temperature could have risen so much 55 million years ago, scientists found embarrassing holes in global warming theory. In their models they were pushing the concentration of CO2 to 2000 ppm but found it would only raise the average global temperature about 3.5 degrees C

http://blog.taragana.com/n/co2-not-only-reason-for-curious-spike-in-earths-temperature-55-million-years-ago-111022/

in short, our hysteria over co2 levels is not warranted at all. we need to be looking at what has REALLY changed drastically in the last couple hundred years. Such as earth's magnetic field dropping 15% coupled with extremely high solar wind levels. Such as sun going very quiet in last 2 years and earth's average temperature dropping rapidly in response.

I posted this above: http://blog.taragana.com/n/high-fat-diet-can-adversely-affect-physical-memory-abilities-137299/

Couple that with obese people have more than just a tendency to get there by way of high fat foods and viola! Fat people are of diminished mental capacity. Which, unfortunately, fits my experience. No matter what the job, btw. It's sad.

I have yet to meet a morbidly obese (or even fairly overweight) person that can answer my questions in a timely fashion. It's like after the words leave my mouth, there is a built in delay before there brain can start processing the request, or the brain just works slower. It's very frustrating.

But, you know what. You're right. Because, it's not like there was a study just done that showed the high fat foods have a negative impact on learning/information processing/etc....

http://blog.taragana.com/n/high-fat-diet-can-adversely-affect-physical-memory-abilities-137299/

Oh wait.

... it *escapes* leaving a bloody trail...

How so? What I said is exactly that. On an unformatted disk you get three options, 1- use the whole disk, 2- custom partiton, and.. wait. there's only two.

I can't figure out what I mean by me over simplifying it because that's what it is, simple.

You word it so that the Windows partitioning step looks like it involves more steps than the Ubuntu stage, when both systems have a partition stage. You even have the user create a new partition for some reason when their disk is most likely already partitioned, and all they have to do is press Enter.

I did that because Ubuntu comes with Office software already on the disk.

You do realise that people use office software don't you?

Again (since you're being purposely obtuse), you cite Ubuntu's inclusion of OpenOffice as an advantage while pretending that versions of Office don't already come preinstalled on PCs or even on the OEM Windows recovery install disc included with the PC. Dell even has a CD with an app that lists all the bundled applications available, and you can just click their names. OpenOffice is also a free download for Windows.

This is nonsense, how can you do a fair comparrison of installing the operating system on a custom pc and come up with "the vendor disk".

Why wouldn't I? What is unfair about pointing out that Windows almost always comes with Office as well? And if it doesn't, OpenOffice is a free download for Windows too. I really don't see the point is of even bringing it up as an advantage.

It's totally irrelevant anyway because it's still not a click install even with the vendor disk. Which was my whole point in the first place.

There's no such thing as a "click install," especially with Linux.

Yes because it would be irresponsible not to download updates for Windows. It's so important that your box can get owned in less then 4 minutes.

Ubuntu never has security problems. Ever.

Researchers have already done this sort of thing with monkeys and quadriplegics. Contrary to what you might think, when something is wired up to our brain, controlling it actually comes quite naturally. In fact, once we get past the moral dilemma of being assimilated, our integration with the Borg should go quite smoothly.

I am surprised to see this article on WSJ via Slashdot. I had written about exactly the same topic on 20th October 2005. My article was titled:
Outsourcing Homework to India. It mentions the Rentacoder issue - "If you glance at rentacoder you will find several homework assigments up for outsourcing. In fact they have a Personal Project / Homework Help category. At present there are 88 open jobs in Homework category."

I wonder if WSJ writer has plagiarized my article. What do you think?

I am surprised to see this article on WSJ via Slashdot. I had written about exactly the same topic on 20th October 2005. My article was titled:
Outsourcing Homework to India. It mentions the Rentacoder issue - "If you glance at rentacoder you will find several homework assigments up for outsourcing. In fact they have a Personal Project / Homework Help category. At present there are 88 open jobs in Homework category."

I wonder if WSJ writer has plagiarized my article. What do you think?