of all of these whistleblower articles on slashdot these days. Is there nothing else by the constant formula of "Beneficial technology X. But X might and will be used for bad things!" It's always in the same tone. I mean, I've been on this site for about two years now and I'm just starting to get tired of the same old agenda.

Sounds like Titanic to me.

Alright then.

BES and BIS includes the MDS (mobile data service) which also encrypts most data. There are certain exclusions such as streaming technologies which may not go through RIM's infrastructure. But it is an end-to-end solution.

Now when a company hosts their own BES I believe that non-email data will still go through RIM's servers. Not sure if a company can host their own MDS servers though.

So that's what I know. I know that most people on /. will tear you apart for the slightest bit of misinformation. So I decided to say little. Sorry if that ticked you off.

Same language? C# and Javascript have nearly identical syntax. I think it's completely unreasonable to expect someone to invent a brand new syntax for every programming language.

Some of the same classes? Look at how many other languages have analogous classes in their libraries. It's irresponsible not to provide string utilities, for one.

Are you serious. Why in the world would anyone market a software platform to the Chinese: the most pirating, copyright infringing, knock-off producing nation on the entire planet?

It doesn't matter how cheap you make this thing. People won't develop for it because the Chinese will hack and mod the thing in less than a week. Guaranteed.

This venture is futile.

Yup, you have no idea what you're talking about.

This is so true. In fact the BlackBerry already provides a breadth of cryptography APIs. Making an app that allows secure communication, even on an insecure network, is effortless.

I dunno. I did assembly programming on a Motorola 68K. We put stuff into registers, used gotos, bit oring and all that jazz.

Point is I don't think the hardware we used was that old, but we still learned the basics of computing.

What are some examples of innovative games that are fun to play? When I look for new games I look for games that interest me due to themes, graphics, or gameplay. Innovation isn't on my list of requirements.

Is a photo of your lawn, outside of home, and garden a private affair? When people drive by your home do you chase them away like a barking dog? No (reply if you do). Then why should you shoo away the Google car?

OK. But does that give you the right to aggregate those photos, organize them by location, creating a photo map of the entire planet?

On the one hand: Location based services are increasingly being incorporated into photographic devices. It's only a matter of time before the planet is completely photo-mapped with location information. Attempts to prevent this are only by scaremongers who have an idealistic view of privacy.

On the other hand: People have a right to privacy and it's unreasonable for one corporation to destroy it.

One of my university english profs discouraged the use of 'their' when referring to either sex. Fuck that. I'm not writing 'his or her'. Invent a new pronoun or suck it up.

I call slashvertisement.

I would say no under certain circumstances. When developing you often don't know how a function will work until it's "completed". I'll often write a whole class and only write the tests and documentation once I feel it's completed. When I write both tests and docs while developing I find that I end up rewriting the tests and docs. The functionality has changed from what I first imagined. Of course this wouldn't be too much of a problem with good design.

I'm a test developer right now, so this may skew my opinion. When I develop any code, whether it's tests, frameworks, utilities, or actual development, I always consider testing of my own code a stimulating factor. Do you enjoy knowing that your code works as you intended? I do. In my opinion good design is reflected by good testing. If your tests are bad then you won't know if your design is good either. This includes performance testing.

Try this: do no testing at all for a month and see how annoyed you get by receiving a million defect reports.

Developing for Android is a breeze but it has little, if nothing to do with their "Java" implementation.

It more has to do with their great development tools, extensive guides, and excellent activity-based application framework. The fact that it's all open source is a bonus because if you ever wonder "How did they get their list to look like that?" you can just open up the files and take a gander. This is further bolstered by the large development community.

Give developers all of those things and they won't care what language you shackle them to.