Is it anything like "Ayn Volk, Ayn Reich"?

When the phone is in "pretend to be a desktop" mode, with a Bluetooth keyboard and an external monitor, its touch surface would behave like a trackpad. People who have used Apple's Magic Trackpad would have little trouble adapting.

I didn't carry a monitor. I carried a phone, a ZAGGkeys Flex keyboard, and an HDMI video cable, and I'm using someone else's monitor that happens to be in front of me.

A few categories tend to be underrepresented in a repository that contains only free software, such as games with substantial production values, players for legit copies of notable movies, software to deposit paper checks through a camera, and software to prepare this year's income tax return.

WhatsApp is exclusive to phones. What sense does not allowing its use on laptops make? Chase Bank's check deposit app is exclusive to phones. What sense does not allowing its use on PCs with a flatbed scanner make?

Unless you pair a Bluetooth keyboard and plug in an external monitor. What sense does forbidding this make, other than to make iPhone users buy more Macs?

Even if there is "nothing morally wrong", a copyright infringement lawsuit can still bankrupt you.

Which is difficult if nobody's advertising entry-level positions for recent graduates in your home city, as was my case. Or by "first job [...] paying peanuts" did you actually mean a minimum wage service job such as food service or retail?

They would return no hits. Shazam and Google Song Search work with specific recordings. They cannot identify a new recording of an existing song. SoundHound claims to be able to identify humming, but it failed to find matches to pop songs that I used to test. Nor can any such automated service identify the sort of comprehensive nonliteral similarity for which Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were recently busted.

But is it also trivial to ensure that your music is truly original, not an infringing accidental copy of an existing song?

As I explained in a comment to a previous story, US copyright law provides for a compulsory license to stream sound recordings at a fixed royalty so long as a service resembles radio more than a jukebox. Pandora, for example, selects songs in a similar style to the artist whose name you key in and is therefore not considered an "interactive service" that substitutes for purchases.

Even in a networked environment, if you can convince the owner of a home PC to download a binary package and elevate to install it, you 0wn his PC. Trusting your operating system's default repository doesn't help if a trojan poses as a type of desirable software that's often excluded from repos on licensing grounds, such as games or media players.

Last time I checked, repositories containing only free software tended to lack games with substantial production values, apps for lawfully watching notable movies, and apps for scanning paper checks for deposit into your bank account. Has this changed, and if so, when?

But how many countries other than France could come to claim the same? I thought arms nonproliferation treaties limited which countries could operate nuclear power. And even if not, how can public sentiment get over a little problem called Fukushima?

How is Amazon Appstore any less "part of the problem" than Google Play Store?

Possibly not juggling. But would you accept a gymnast with no legs?

Are you sure they aren't trying to poach someone who worked at the company producing the technology during the two years before release?