How so? Some game genres fit a touch screen, such as point-and-click games, endless runners and other steering games (such as Flappy Bird, Canabalt, Temple Run, Jetpack Joyride, and car racing), and shmups. But beyond those genres, I'm told most people don't buy a MOGA or other Bluetooth gamepad. Without directional input or discrete buttons, good luck getting an exploration-oriented platformer or a fighting game to work well on a flat sheet of glass. I tried the free version of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure on my Nexus 7 tablet, and making even basic jumps with the virtual gamepad was an exercise in frustration. But if you can think of an enjoyable platformer made for Android, let me know. I'm itching to try its free first level.

Apple charges its users a recurring fee ($99 per year) to turn it off.

Then I guess your current usage doesn't involve a lot of typing, especially typing of markup. Making <quote> and <a> elements on a virtual keyboard when posting to Slashdot is an exercise in tedium.

At which point the furry fandom says: mission accomplished.

The answer to that question depends on what tool you would consider using to troubleshoot the "widely supported, stable, widely available tools for reading them".

That depends on what you mean by "desktop". I was thinking close your laptop's lid to put it on suspend, get off the airplane, step into a new locale, open the lid change your laptop's locale to match.

And not everybody who does have one can afford to move to an area served by a carrier that doesn't impose one.

Which would hurt the owner of a Wi-Fi AP with a satellite or cellular uplink. Or does the Facebook respect the operating system's provision to mark an SSID as being metered? (In Android 4.4 "KitKat", it's Settings > Data usage > overflow > Mobile hotspots. There's also a feature for this in Windows 8.)

Other than that if it's not animated, there will likely be a Content-type: image/png HTTP header. Almost nobody uses still GIF anymore. Those not convinced to switch to PNG a decade ago by Unisys's assertion of its LZW patent were convinced by PNG's smaller file sizes on the vast majority of images and practical high-color support.

Things I noticed from the video:

11:25 "Don't bring any proprietary software to this class." So which cell phone running free software should students be putting in their bags instead? Even Replicant OS, which is based on Android Open Source Project with the non-free parts cut out, uses non-free radio firmware.

12:48 "So how to help? Well you can write free software." So how would you go about feeding yourself while you write a free video game? Video games can't rely on support to the same extent as software critical to a business.

The FSF recognizes that a non-copyleft free software license is better in some cases, such as when trying to replace entrenched patented MP3 with newcomer free Vorbis (source; more reliable ones would be appreciated). It's also better for programs shorter than the GPL itself, as mentioned in the page about the suggested license for build scripts and the GPL FAQ's recommendation of the Apache License 2.0.

Over the past few years, I've learned that people care more about "freedom" when it's called "flexibility". So I've come up with my own sound bite to summarize the benefit of free software: "Free software is flexible software. Using free software gives you the flexibility to hire anyone to make the program do what you want instead of some other big company wants."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was possible to deploy "service as a software substitute" in a manner consistent with free software philosophy. Make the server software's source code available to the service's subscribers and let the subscriber download backups of his account. AGPL was designed for applications intended for use in free SaaSS, and though Google isn't free, it does offer Takeout for the second point.

Who has produced credible statistics as to how many people use ABP, F.B. Purity, or some other ad blocker? I use an SWF click-to-play extension, but that's it. But then I'm not a Facebook member either. In fact, I've blocked a few of Facebook's hostnames in my laptop's hosts file so I don't even see like buttons.

The complaint, as I understand it, is not that the FAA is enforcing the law on the books but that this law is not useful.

So in a world where musicians are supposed to make money touring and treat CDs as promotional materials, what is a producer supposed to do to put a roof over his head?