Good thing he's not a United States citizen then, or else he might be violating his social contract.

For the M.R.S. degree. Seriously this is just degrading.

And undocumented opcodes. I wonder why they want an opcode to sum all the 1's in a register...hmmm...

Really there should be a "I DON'T CARE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN READS THIS WEBSITE" button you can click combiend with opportunistic encryption. You're still vulnerable to MitM but it takes care of a great deal of snooping and requires zero user competence.

Hate to be selfish, but since not enough people use it, they don't ban it, and I'm allowed to use it. Though I'd be surprised if the NSA didn't have a pragmatic way to break things like PGP, it's enough to prevent the small fry for messing with you.

Seems like the market ought to build in reversion capability to clamp down on this. I come from the FOSS world so I take things like easy access to reversion for granted.

Funny, I had a iPhone for awhile before I upgraded to a Nexus One (that was a good decision, so much more polished and featureful), and all my apps were manual update.

Actually I hate apple and think it makes products that aren't especially good and are super expensive. I also really like android. Regardless, one is not required to update one's apps.

Think before you stereotype, mmmkay?

Then you don't have to update to the new version of the paid app.

Palm and Ubuntu not not Apple? Seriously? I'm supposed to take this list seriously?

This is why I pass all calls through to voicemail unless the call is by appointment. People abuse the phone to ask me simple questions where an email would have done it in a fraction of the time. If you want to call and chat for an hour that's still doable, but my phone no longer generates interrupts.

In America the corporate state takes away your rights. Europe has the government for that. Either way you lose.

> Last I checked, it doesn't work. You either end up with an utterly failed system of production as in the USSR, or a totalitarian regime that oppresses its people, most of whom end up living in abject poverty.

That wasn't communism. The Soviet Union was an authoritarian police state state that cloaked its policies in veils of communist propaganda. Furthermore, Marx made it very clear that Communist revolutions in pre-industrialized countries would fail, as the infrastructure wasn't even there.

I don't happen to support Communism but I do get sick of these simplistic statements like "X doesn't work because that one time it was tried and 'failed'".

rather than mine.

And this is why I don't mess with carriers or phones that think they have any right to tell me what software I may run on my computer or device.