Yeah, right, those damn paparazzi with their stupid rangefinder cameras and their huge 135mm lenses.

There are probably no (semi-)professional cameras that are less likely to be bought by paparazzi than those two. A paparazzi who expects to be productive with those two cameras is a stupid paparazzi. Not exactly ideal for their kind of work.

It’s only Rebel in North America, 500D in the rest of the World.

Bridging the gap is not about sensor technology (CCD vs CMOS) but about sensor size. DSLR don’t have a better image quality than Non-DSLRs because of their CMOS sensor but because their sensors are much bigger. The SX1’s image quality is not better – maybe even a little worse – than that of its CCD equivalent, the SX10. A CMOS sensor was used because that way you get speed advantages (4 fps vs 1.4 fps). So don’t buy the SX1 if you want better image quality than with the SX10. And for the love of cute kittens, don’t expect DSLR-like image quality from either the SX1 or the SX10

Does 802.1X work? How do the settings look (i.e. like in Mac OS X or a light version with less options)?

I would like the use my iPod touch on the Campus, but they require 802.1X with some very specific settings.

I don’t think real time route guidance means what you think it means. That could also just refer to some form of automated guidance – please don’t develop any programs that can work together with the auto pilot of a Boeing 747 or your killer robot or something like that. That would be more in tone with the rest of the sentence.

That strange sentence is at best ambiguous and I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions. If engadget would like to play it like the big boys they would do what normal journalists do in such situations: call or mail someone that knows instead of starting crazy speculations. You get some credit for putting that disclaimer at the end of the article.

Under the glass. It would be supremely stupid to put the touch-sensing stuff on top of the protective glass. The glass is there to protect. The display, but also the touch-sensing plastic stuff. (It doesn’t actually measure the touch itself [that would be called "button", funny, eh?] but how electric charges change. That also works "touchless")

Who blamed the US? It’s just a funny story. Nothing more. I didn’t see anyone blame the USA.

Like I wrote in the comment above yours: they will get a second one. Some Shuttle will fly it up there. It’s built into an International Standard Payload Rack (that’s what the USA, Europe and Japan use in their modules to build in experiments, avionics, toilets, etc.) but it’s Russian. NASA bought it from the Russians for 19 million dollar (developing one would be more expensive). One reason why the Russians are so important in this project is not their cash but their experience.

This new toilet will be located in Destiny. (The Laboratory. Don’t worry, the US can use a lot of the Japanese and European racks for their experiments because they brought the two modules up there. Something around 50%.) Maybe they will move it to Node 3 (that will not be much of a node, more like a living quarter) when it’s finally up there.

They need an additional one to accomodate the six (not four) people that are planned to be up there constantly some months in the future.

The toilet is gonna stay up there, the ISS will get a second one. This one will be in the American part of the station, but it will be a Russian model (like the broken one). NASA actually bought it for 19 Million dollar, put it in an International Standard Payload Rack and will install it in Destiny (The US Laboratory. I guess they will install it in Node 3 as soon as it is in space.) as soon as the Shuttle brings it up there.

They need the second toilet because it is planned to extend the crew from three to six. There really seems to be nothing fundamentally wrong with the toilet and it already worked perfectly for years and years. This only really became a problem because they had only two defective spare pumps on board to replace the old broken one. The ISS has enough spare parts up there, but if they are broken you really are in trouble.

The bullshit was with engadget. I certainly won’t blame the commenters. Party as much as you want. It’s just that facts are sometimes a nice thing to have.