Wrong, use the OS provided keyring (OS X Keychain, GNOME keyring, Windows Credentials API, etc.) that protect your passwords with your local user credentials and only allow direct reading by the application that stored them. It is true that if your computer is compromised passwords are not safe either, but not all compromises have the same kind of access to a decrypt a keyring, but most if not all can read plain text files.

Do you really think everyone that download those applications that enable access to this hidden code know what they are doing? People will download it because they saw it on the media, use it, and go to Google Play and start giving bad reviews for applications that have bad behaviour, and not only crashes, what will happen if the access to the IMEI number is hidden giving fake numbers and for some reason a crap application used that to identify the user and for some reason privacy is broken, accessing data of other users?

Google is very strict with application compatibility on Google Play. I remember they advised the Cyanogenmod team to not enable multi window feature for all applications because not all of them work without problems with dynamic screen sizes and they didn't want to alienate developers on Google Play with bad reviews for something that doesn't follow the Android APIs. There is a reason Samsung multi window feature only works with some applications and not all of them

I still think this a feature that we will see later when better developed and there is a better way to ensure old applications compatibility. We will see then

You can do that, and be an OS with bad reputation or you can be a good OS vendor, and start documenting those changes for future versions, give developers time to update, etc. Quoting Linus Torvalds, "don't break userspace", if you are going to break it, give people time to update

It was never a feature, people access it using a third party application that calls an Activity that is not normally accessible from the OS UI. It is like when people found initial semi-working code of multiple user profiles on Android 4.1, again not accessible to the users, and later releases added the feature when the code was completed and tested. I think we will see this feature enabled on later Android versions when they get to finish it and find ways to make old applications not crash when permissions are removed.

Opposing religion and their political structures is one thing, many god(s) believing people oppose to that too, including mixing religion, government and science. Take a look at some other comments, you will see some words like "ignorant", "moron", "stupid", when they think someone believe in a god, without ever knowing or asking about his or her ideas, the same behaviour of extremist people when someone say believe on another god or none, this is what I call the "anti theist religion".

I seriously challenge those people to call, for example, to the priest Georges Lemaître and ignorant because it was a god believer, and still proposed what became the Big Bang theory, and disapproved that the Catholic church used his work as a way to validate religion

I said "sin" because some of them are very abusive in the way they threat people with religious beliefs, starting with calling or treating them as ignorants. IMO they behave like the worst religious fanatics when they talk about other beliefs

People confuse two groups: atheist and anti theist, the former group doesn't believe in god, the later is a "religion" whose members think that everyone that believe in some kind of God(s) are sinners

In the countries that accept those copyright laws

Because they aren't violating the current Terms of Service (TOS), but probably will. I expect and update to the Google Play TOS soon. I think it is better to ask for it to be removed instead of not giving any info or giving vague ones (Apple style) of why it is removed.

Really, can I download all the management tools that Amazon uses in AWS? If you tell me that I can use Xen and other OSS code that Amazon uses will only tell me you don't get what I am talking about

Where can I download that thing called AWS and Azure to install on my private cloud?

They only forgot to name the new magazine "Libre Linux Format", wait until "Linux Format" corpse is donated to Apache

Thanks for the insight, but in my defence, giving someone an expired drug is still dangerous if that people need it to live, don't you think? probably the drug is ineffective or is not strong enough for the people required dosage. I assure you that if someone start giving a lot of people expired drugs, he or she will go to jail, it is because it is dangerous, people can get harmed receiving something ineffective

then add the logic for that, no need to be remote triggered

I can use medicine longer than is safe (expired) and kill myself and a lot of people. Do you propose to embed DRM on it? There is no need for remote capabilities for that, just add a timer and disable it after their secure time of life. The problem with this case is not only the remote capabilities, but that they don't sell you a battery, they rent it to you, not a problem they give you an option to buy one or others are able to provide the same rental service and by definition of DRM I am pretty sure this will be something like "only Renault can provide that service"