One thing I remember from CP/M was that when a program terminated you could save the memory it had been running in to disc as an executable program. A lot of programs (e.g. Wordstar) used this to avoid having to read any kind of configuration file: instead you just changed settings within the program, exited, and saved the memory; when you ran the saved version you had your saved defaults. I also always kept a 0 length file around in case I accidentally exited a program such as a text editor without saving: run the 0 length file and it would just restart the editor with everything restored.

As one of the comments points out, where they claim the video shows 13cm extruded in about 5 seconds the actual amount extruded is nearer to 3cm. Using the same assumptions that the article makes 3cm in 5 seconds is well within the power available from the USB port.

You are confusing the repo size with the size of a checkout. With Git they are pretty much the same, but with SVN you only checkout the revision and indeed the branch that you actually need. If the repository has been well managed there may not be much in it, but as soon as someone adds binaries to the checkin the repository size is likely to explode. Here's an example: I wanted to play with a particular application environment just to get an idea what it could do. Their main 'kitchen sink' sample program at that time didn't have an up to date zip download, so the only way to get the latest version was to clone the github repository. For some reason they had included generated object files in the repository, so to get the example program it was a multi-GB cloning operation. If it had been in SVN it would have been a few MB total.

Automatic branch merging is listed in the release notes. I have no idea though how well it works.

Anonymous Coward may be overstating things slightly, but there is an element of truth in what they wrote. Any large business in the UK will register both .co.uk and the corresponding .com: they need both versions to prevent domain squatters muddying their name. So for example if you look at major UK supermarkets: tesco.co.uk, waitrose.co.uk, marksandspencer.co.uk all redirect to the corresponding .com address, Asda let you use either at the top level but all subsequent links are .com. Only Sainburys do it the other way round and redirect sainsburys.com to sainsburys.co.uk.
Smaller companies though may not want or be bothered about protecting their name that way so they pick one or the other. Also international companies like Amazon and Google often use the country specific domains to provide a localised service.

UK patents have a maximum 20 year life and since the original wind-up radio patent was filed in 1992 it will now have expired. They also need to be renewed every year after their 4th anniversary of filing so many patents do lapse much sooner than that.

The 30% is supposedly dried powdered skin (and I would guess other bits). The point being that it's cheap and soaks up lots of water. It only has to be listed on the ingredients as 'seasoning' so it's not entirely clear that they even broke any rules over labelling.

Because one of Apple's objections to Samsung's motion to have the verdict overturned is that the information was readily available so Samsung should have known during the trial and therefore they've missed their opportunity to object. If Apple didn't know during the trial it undermines their argument (whereas if they had known and not brought it up it would have been even worse for them).

No. The lawyer who sued the foreman is the spouse of a partner in the same law firm. Nowhere in the published papers does it say whether the lawyer had any direct connection to this particular case.

I'm afraid your argument doesn't really hold water. In the UK an employer can fire someone without a good reason if they've worked for them for less than 1 year (2 years if they employed them on or after 6th April 2012), so there's no disincentive to hiring someone as you can quickly get rid of them if you find you've made a mistake. The protection only means that you can't get rid of them easily if the relationship turns sour further down the line. FWIW, Google's public data page gives US unemployment 8.3% (Feb 2012), UK unemployment rate 8.3% (Dec 2011).

Possible but unlikely. I think at the moment they are just jamming the GPS signal which is really easy to do. To redirect you to another location they have to provide fake signals that your receiver will think are real. You can do that but it requires more sophisticated equipment. New Scientist had an article about GPS jamming last year and one of the more interesting things they suggested was that if you could distort the GPS instead of just jamming it you could cause mains blackouts over large areas of the US. Apparently US power stations use GPS as the reference time signal to ensure that the different power stations keep their generators in phase, so knock a few of them half a cycle out of phase and the entire network could come down.

They could, but then they'd have to reject Facebook's similar abuse of P3P and they don't want to do that.

I use my Google credentials to access openid enabled sites such as StackOverflow. I think that's the main reason I need to be logged in to Google from my phone's web browser.

The catch with this is that for two-factor authentication you need the Google Authenticator app installed on some device which is probably your phone. So if someone does manage to break into your phone and extract the main password they've got all they need to get into your account. If you are very careful to use only application passwords on the phone and then you can revoke them all but if you use the main password to login to Google on the web browser then the two-factor stuff has added complexity but not a whole lot of security.

Some of the suggestions such as "perhaps you were viewing your destination on Google Maps and want to transfer that to your smartphone" are already trivially easy from Chrome or Firefox. Using Chrome to phone I can transfer my Google Maps view to the phone with a single click. Using the phone to take a photo of the screen sounds like just another way to make an easy task hard for the sake of flashy use of technology.