I agree with everything here apart from the badly-chosen word "weaklings". It's integrity that soldiers must lack to submit to that erasure of the self. Plus they need the psychopathic belief that might is right.

You think the police's job is to protect people's freedoms? You must be Swedish

Surely they wouldn't need to physically decamp there, just re-incorporate themselves in that country (wherever you're talking about)?

Progress bars are there to let you know something is happening, and indicate how long you can expect to wait, not to make it be/feel/seem faster/more fun.

"uncrop"!

Sounds dreadful! Thanks for the warning.

Could you elaborate? My Samsumg Omnia is running WinMo 6.1, and while there are some things I really like about the phone, the OS feels cobbled together and most of the buttons are too small. I have heard good things about 6.5 (eg bigger buttons) and though I will probably get an Android phone I would be interested to hear why you think WinMo 7 is a backwards step.

Got no mod points today, but surely this deserves a few "+1 Informative"s?

In the UK I am noticing a big swing towards Android (though admittedly among a small sample group - ie my friends and work colleagues, who are mainly but not all techies). Is it just here or is it happening elsewhere too?

I think the crucial factor that you're overlooking is that, all else being equal, the shop/publisher/app store/whoever *would* have made the item available. Walmart declines to stock certain CDs, because of their lyrics, which it otherwise would have stocked. This app was blocked, where similar apps have been approved, because of the creator's opinions. It's not government censorship, but is censorship nonetheless.

But how, given a piece of compiled code, can they figure out what language it was written in originally?

What a smart idea! How long will it take Adobe to create that tool?

OTOH, I am struggling to understand how Apple will actually enforce this. Surely there must be a way to spoof the output of Apple's compiler?

FTFY

Cybermen and Sontarans - I agree. Very boring. But the Daleks and their successive returns from oblivion never get old.

Nice link. But that stuff about pauses is confusing; it's the kind of thing that will cause people to drop them into sentences wherever they hear a long breath, rather than because they make grammatical sense there.