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  ip6tables -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
  ip6tables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o br0 -p all -j DROP
  ip6tables -A FORWARD -i br0 -j ACCEPT
  ip6tables -A FORWARD -o br0 -j ACCEPT
  ip6tables -A FORWARD -j DROP

Really? Why would Google have to pay Apple a cut of ad revenue from searches? Or is it referring only to searches initiated in the search box in Safari?

So let's say I have 2 email address, me@gmail.com and me@mydomain.com. My gmail account is setup so I can send from either one. If I get an email sent to me@mydomain.com and I change the From address to me@gmail.com in my reply, it always sends it from me@mydomain.com anyway. It doesn't matter what I select for the from address. This doesn't happen in the normal gmail web interface, it's only the Android app.

The thing is that this used to work a few years ago (Android 2.2 or very early in 2.3). It was broke in an update at some point and still hasn't been fixed. I've tried reporting the bug, and even had a Google employee verify he has the same problem, but it's unfortunately still there. I've verified it with other people, and it's happened on the past 3 Android phones I've had, so it seems to be a universal problem.

This isn't to say Chrome doesn't have its own memory or performance problems. GMail for example will eat up to 1GB of memory eventually before I notice I'm low. I have to actually close the tab (reloading doesn't fix it) and re-open it. It's "only" using 500MB right now...

A better analogy would be that you wanted to buy a loaf of bread, but the grocery store forced you to also buy hot dog and hamburger buns with it along with some bagels. Say you're a vegetarian or don't like hot dogs or hamburgers, and you'll never use them, but you have to buy them anyway.

Put another way: Company X's stock is $100/share. They issue a 50 cent dividend. The stock price will go down to $99.50/share upon announcement. The investors/owners still have $100 whether the dividend is issued or not, except the investors have to pay taxes on that 50 cent dividend now instead of having it re-invested.

1. the stock price should accurately reflect the earnings of the firm. When a dividend is announced, the price of the stock decreases by the amount of the dividend. If you want some of those earnings, then sell a share. There's no need for the company to issue a dividend. This is a common misconception most people have.

2. You're taxed on the dividend payments (exceptions tax deferred retirement accounts). This is annoying, especially if you don't want them now and would rather have them just reinvested. Ignoring taxes, the value to the shareholder is the same regardless of whether dividends are paid or not.

My professors in finance all go on long rants against paying dividends, and it really does seem that they're antiquated. Most newer firms just don't pay dividends, and tech companies just happen to be newer firms usually. It's not necessary a property of just tech companies.

Interestingly, it would be possible to code native apps on it via browser plugins. Some parts of WebOS do use this it seems, but only to interact directly with the hardware.

Actually, this is a reference to Palm saying they will continue making the Pre sync with iTunes until a fix would take more than 40 hours to implement. They said the last fix took just a few minutes, and I'm sure this one took about the same amount of time (add one more line of code to change the Manufacturer ID in addition to the Vendor ID when media sync is selected).

Sure apps won't not be as "rich" at first, but there is still going to be a demand for the simpler ones. It may be harder to have, and get profits from, a "hit" for the iPhone. However, I bet your expected return on a simple Pre app is higher than releasing an iPhone app. The app store is so big it's hard to get noticed. You could even just clone existing iPhone apps. They sold once, they will sell again.

Once the SDK is advanced enough to let you have more access to the hardware, the market will be ready for those apps. Sure it'd be great to have them now, but they'll come. In the meantime, you can build the easier apps.

I suppose if you really wanted to, you could get access to it as long as you're willing to do a little reverse engineering. Some ideas:

1. Direct Framebuffer (http://predev.wikidot.com/directfb). I don't know much about OpenGL programming, but this might be able to be used. Doom runs on it, so perhaps there's a way through that.

2. The built in apps must execute some type of native code. For example, when the phone app initiates a call. Does it somehow make a call to a local shell script or app? You could use that to write stuff in whatever language you wanted and have it talk back to js app. The tools are available to compile executables for the platform.

Be the first to figure this out and you've got a great head start, because I'm confident this is how Palm will do it. Or even release your app outside the App Store; you don't need to "root" a Pre to install an app. A person downloads an "installer" on their computer, plugs in their Pre, and runs the program. It installs it on the phone over USB. No hacking required. You'd have to do payment processing yourself obviously.

Note: I also recognize that games make up a large number of iPhone app purchases, but there are still a lot of games you could make for the Pre with the SDK's limitations.

Edit: It's back up.

I see them once in a while on other sites, and it's pretty annoying.

I believe what rms is saying is you can't apply laisse-faire capitalism to a government instituted monopoly. You either need to remove the monopoly and allow capitalism to do its thing, or you need to institute regulation to prevent them from ripping off the customer.

> Oh, horrors - we wouldn't want people to try to provide services in order to make money!

As everyone has said, there's plenty of bandwidth to go around, so why are they doing this? They're doing it because there is no competition to prevent them from doing so. They certainly aren't hurting for money. They're simply taking advantage of the lack of competition provided by government mandate.

Sounds to me like it's pretty significant portion of the US.

As a gay man, I don't really care what it's called, but the reason we push for "marriage" over "civil unions" is because of these legal rights. The laws are written for marriage, not civil unions.

It's also about the promise of marriage. Where in the typical marriage vows is reproduction mentioned? "To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part." That is what it's about...that promise. That commitment with the one you love.

It's described in this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751 and my follow up comment.

The free solutions are getting much better and can compete with VMWare. Furthermore, I would say the money is not in desktop virtualization, but rather in server virtualization. For this, does VMWare even have a product?