And that's the point of Diaspora - open standards, and as little central control as possible (preferably zero.)
(Although, looking at the other reply to your post, Diaspora is really S2S, not P2P, but anyone can set up a server, so it's somewhere between the two.)
Most likely the rubber dome under the trackpoint button has worn out. Find an old ThinkPad T4x or R5x that's dead, and steal the dome from its keyboard.
The way I've seen to set it up in Linux, as a click, it still functions as a middle-click, but as a drag, it functions as it does in Windows. Best of both worlds.
Half the time, I prefer a TrackPoint over a MOUSE.
I just wish the EnduraPro had lighter switches (they're slightly lighter than the Model M already, but I like my switches light,) and a genuine TrackPoint IV mechanism instead of Unicomp's mechanism.
What I think is that LOCAL (city, village, township) governments should install one infrastructure for last mile network connectivity.
They can contract with a company to install and maintain that infrastructure, but the infrastructure should be owned by the local government. At any time, the local government can give the contract to other companies for maintenance.
In the center of the network, have a connectivity center. In that connectivity center, any provider that wants to provide bandwidth to users can hook into the local last mile.
The local scale prevents "big government" from being too much of an issue, and injects rather more direct democracy into the process. Also, it shouldn't be an undue burden on local governments, as they should be able to charge ISPs for the access, so that it's self-sufficient (or even a profit center for local government.)
The US government CAN use any patented technology for their own purposes without compensating the patent holder, but that won't work for H.264, unless you have the government run YouTube.
However, CDMA EVDO was a much smoother and faster rollout, lower handset power consumption than UMTS (IIRC,) and coverage in rural areas tends to be better with CDMA, in any country that provides both CDMA and GSM.
And, the selection of phones and consumer freedom don't really exist on US GSM carriers, either.
You can also hide the speed cameras, artificially lower the speed limit, make the camera on a hair trigger (or even trigger slightly below the speed limit and misreport.)
The biggest one is claiming that Flash is a closed standard - Flash as a standard is open, $free, and Free. Anyone can implement a Flash compiler, and anyone can implement a Flash player, using specs provided by Adobe, without having to pay any royalties to Adobe. (Now, the video codecs are another story, but that's still not royalties to Adobe.)
Also, there was the whole, claiming things that are problems with Flash as unique to Flash, when they also apply to H.264 and HTML5, thing.
To be fair, um... you could make a Sun XVR-100 out of an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI. But that's stretching, and they never offered THAT firmware for download anyway (although General Dynamics did.) (Same for an XVR-300 out of (presumably) a FireMV 2200 PCIe or Radeon X300 SE, except no download anywhere..)
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And that's the point of Diaspora - open standards, and as little central control as possible (preferably zero.)
(Although, looking at the other reply to your post, Diaspora is really S2S, not P2P, but anyone can set up a server, so it's somewhere between the two.)
Most likely the rubber dome under the trackpoint button has worn out. Find an old ThinkPad T4x or R5x that's dead, and steal the dome from its keyboard.
They do, sorta.
The Unicomp board reviewed in TFA is a 104-key version of that in a different case: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/en104wh.html
That exact board isn't made any more, though: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/onthestick.html
The way I've seen to set it up in Linux, as a click, it still functions as a middle-click, but as a drag, it functions as it does in Windows. Best of both worlds.
Unless, you know, he has.
Half the time, I prefer a TrackPoint over a MOUSE.
I just wish the EnduraPro had lighter switches (they're slightly lighter than the Model M already, but I like my switches light,) and a genuine TrackPoint IV mechanism instead of Unicomp's mechanism.
What I think is that LOCAL (city, village, township) governments should install one infrastructure for last mile network connectivity.
They can contract with a company to install and maintain that infrastructure, but the infrastructure should be owned by the local government. At any time, the local government can give the contract to other companies for maintenance.
In the center of the network, have a connectivity center. In that connectivity center, any provider that wants to provide bandwidth to users can hook into the local last mile.
The local scale prevents "big government" from being too much of an issue, and injects rather more direct democracy into the process. Also, it shouldn't be an undue burden on local governments, as they should be able to charge ISPs for the access, so that it's self-sufficient (or even a profit center for local government.)
Still needs backhaul, and the more customers you serve off one tower, the more spectrum is used.
Wireless is a great idea in remote areas, but in denser areas, it breaks down due to the spectrum usage.
If the crazy hillbillies open a junk yard in their back yard, and they're near me... good. I could use a good junkyard that's closer to me.
As for the illegals... this is why you do your due diligence before buying a house. Hire someone to inspect it beforehand.
But we're talking about Google here.
Google doesn't have WebOS or iPhone OS.
And the point was that Chrome OS [b]IS[/b] a Linux distro optimized for those devices.
The thing about Chrome OS is that it has a UI more suited towards mouse+keyboard, whereas Android's UI is more suited towards fingers.
Also, Android uses a lot more code that runs in Dalvik, so Chrome may perform (significantly, in some cases) better.
Otherwise, yes, Android wins.
Right. Because, you know, a company that sells hardware is going to spend tons of cash porting WebOS to a 5 year old PDA.
What about the HDfury? Sure, it's analog, but...
The other thing is, at least LCD panels use LVDS to connect to the controller board. Hijack the unencrypted LVDS signal.
Except there's a difference between "a program I want" and "a program I trust."
If a random UAC prompt comes up, there's a chance that the user might realize something is wrong.
If a UAC prompt comes up on something the user downloaded willingly, though, the user will click Allow. EVERY TIME.
The US government CAN use any patented technology for their own purposes without compensating the patent holder, but that won't work for H.264, unless you have the government run YouTube.
However, CDMA EVDO was a much smoother and faster rollout, lower handset power consumption than UMTS (IIRC,) and coverage in rural areas tends to be better with CDMA, in any country that provides both CDMA and GSM.
And, the selection of phones and consumer freedom don't really exist on US GSM carriers, either.
Um, what? The corporations OWN the government.
It's going to be the corporatocracy vs. the people, or the people vs. the people.
You can also hide the speed cameras, artificially lower the speed limit, make the camera on a hair trigger (or even trigger slightly below the speed limit and misreport.)
However, iDevices are designed to be a continuing revenue stream for Apple, through app and music sales.
I was under the impression that Gnash had done that reverse engineering before the Open Screen Project, and therefore before the specs were available.
There's another provider in your area, that gives access to quite a few other providers.
Downside is, 56 kbps downstream.
The biggest one is claiming that Flash is a closed standard - Flash as a standard is open, $free, and Free. Anyone can implement a Flash compiler, and anyone can implement a Flash player, using specs provided by Adobe, without having to pay any royalties to Adobe. (Now, the video codecs are another story, but that's still not royalties to Adobe.)
Also, there was the whole, claiming things that are problems with Flash as unique to Flash, when they also apply to H.264 and HTML5, thing.
Flash sucks.
The problem is, Steve Jobs could have stuck to the facts, rather than making stuff up to smear Adobe with, and there wouldn't have been this backlash.
Also, Adobe is improving Flash.
I actually want to go even further, and use a (Dremel-modded) PCIe x1 to PCI adapter, on top of that mod, to get an XVR-300 into a Blade 2500.
It's called SpeedStep. (OK, it doesn't reduce the CPU usage, but it reduces the CPU clock speed, which is more effective.)
To be fair, um... you could make a Sun XVR-100 out of an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI. But that's stretching, and they never offered THAT firmware for download anyway (although General Dynamics did.) (Same for an XVR-300 out of (presumably) a FireMV 2200 PCIe or Radeon X300 SE, except no download anywhere..)