How about they spend some $$$ on coming to an understanding on why terrorist are making these attacks? You can say they are "evil", but in their minds their attacks are justified.

I used to work for an Australian ISP, and I was aware of a practice where we [the ISP] would periodically receive reports of "infected" computers, and would need to proactively contact customers and advise them / encourage them to resolve the issue, with the disclaimer that if they do nothing, we may eventually need to kick them off the connection. If something wasn't done about the problem for a while, Port 25 was blocked on their account until that had advised us that, and that we felt confident that they had resolved the problem. The block would be re-instated if any further reports arose. Further down the track, if nothing was down and they were totally negligent, we would cancel their account (although AFAIK this rarely happened). (FYI: I never did this job, although I was aware of it and did fill in once).

I wasn't aware that Stephen Moffat wrote blink - it's an absolutely fantastic episode and one of my favorites to date. I was a little concerned at Russell T. Davies' departure but this fact + watching the episode (which wasn't half bad) gives me some faith.

While Android is written in Java, the recommended way to program the GUI is using XML. That can be quite the stretch for someone that's never written a layout in XML (read: myself).

It has caught my interest after browsing to it on my phone. The "Local" feature is something quite interesting, bringing up a list of posts in my suburb, although i was a bit concerned after it posted my full address following a post i made. I'd prefer it to just say my suburb!

Will this be like Chrome beating our Safari's market share? It did only take a year or two to overtake the 7+ year old Safari, I wonder if that will happen with this too, solely due to the size and name of Google.

Umm the reason Bing has been gaining marketshare is that since it's release, absolutely any possible setting or search asset under Microsoft's control has been defaulted to Bing. Example: ninemsn.com.au (aus MSN site.. which just timed out), all the search bars in I.E., etc. Since i took that first look at bing i've basically given up and not specifically attempted to navigate to it since, and even so i've still stumbled across it 10 or so times.

Bing is not gaining market share because it's any "better" than Google, or because people like it more. It's gaining market share because of the same reason IE gained so much market share: because it's the default option.

Yep - more than aware of this. The community builds based on the AOSP are all terrible, slow and have at least one major thing broken, be it camera or wifi.

If it does, i'd imagine CES to be the _perfect_ testing ground for such a product. Elsewhere? Not so sure..

I think he was more looking to complement Android. It's obvious he's a supporter of the platform, voicing some things he dislikes, but threw that in to make it not-so-negative. I think it's a well written article and he raises some valid points, although i disagree with some (i.e. activities & intents can be very useful).

People will judge based on email address. I have a firstname.lastname@domain.com (hosted by Google Apps) which forwards to personaladdresswhichisntsoprofessional@gmail.com (it's nothing bad, just a bit kooky). Know which one I submit for anything that might be deemed semi-professional? Yep.

It's not even that hard, Even firstname.lastname@commonemailprovider.com or firstinitial.lastname@isp.com is okay. Just set up a forward. If your provider doesn't allow you to forward, make a new account with one that does and forward it to your personal address.

Each application can be reported on the market (malicious is one of the options), which will be sent straight to Google. On top of that, each application shows it's average rating (out of 5 stars) - apps that are below 3 stars are lucky to even get a view from me, and if they do it always merits an investigation as to why their rating is so low (by reading the comments, all of which are actually quite useful).

Actually, according to Google Trends, Verizon comes out on top: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=i%20hate%20t-mobile%2Ci%20hate%20verizon%2Ci%20hate%20at%26t%2Ci%20hate%20vodafone%2Ci%20hate%20sprint&cmpt=q
T-Mobile is actually the lowest out of all of those.

It's reference to the Nexus One being a convergence between "phone and web":
From dictionary.com:

Nexus - 6 dictionary results
nexus[nek-suhs] Show IPA
-noun, plural nexuses, nexus.
1. a means of connection; tie; link.
2. a connected series or group

That's only $22 a month on a 24-month contract. Often that's around the same price as the handset repayment, so what's the difference? (This is in Australia though). Generally the higher $ plans have the handset for "free" - but I assume this is the only level at which they can justify subsidizing the handset to be free from the extra $$$ they are making. I'm on a pre-paid plan and having done the math it worked out only a few dollars more a month to buy the phone outright, be on the flexibility of a pre-paid plan with similar $$$ and data and not a contract.