The entire OS source is open, so you're free to flip through and find out exactly what sort of mining might be baked into the device. But the platform is pretty irrelevant in this case. All your transmissions are being forwarded via your carrier. What makes you think your current carrier isn't mining your text messages and emails?

Wait.... are you against the forking of open source projects?

One word: iTunes. Nobody is sulking.

Your brilliant solution would also involve not having any proprietary movies or TV shows available to stream, because the copywrite owners would refuse to allow it.

But hey, Netflix is great even without proprietary content, right?

Dear slashdot, is my point made? Does anybody want this?

And of course, people that know things could point out that since we're falling into a deflationary spiral, money printing is actually an attempt to stabilize inflation at its historic 2%, permitting job growth and preventing a Japan-like lost decade (currently 10-year expectations are down to 1%, which increases the expected real burden of pre-crash debts and in turn creates a money shortage and severe job losses). I could provide links but you could also just go find a macroeconomics textbook and look up 'disinflation' and 'great depression'.

I really don't need to hear the misinformed opinions of slashdotters that think they know things about economics, thx.

For what it's worth, "gefressen" does mean devoured, but "angefressene" just means something more like 'flustered'. Even Germans argue about the exact definition though, so who knows.

What's easier: getting your openID taken down? Or changing all the passwords to sites that you gave the same or similar password to, everywhere on the internet?

I don't even have a list of all the sites I've given my crap password to. But if they were all authenticated with openID, I would only have one problem to fix.

They did create their own derivative. It's called Dalvik.

You may be right technically, but in the long run, oil competes with all other energy sources. The reason we drive around in gasoline-consuming cars is because it's more efficient to carry around gasoline as an energy source than juiced-up batteries or hydrogen derived from electricity from the grid. If electricity became very cheap to generate thanks to solar power, and oil became more expensive due to scarcity, it would make more sense to use fuel cells or batteries as the power storage medium, obviating the need for oil as an energy source in most cases (although of course it will still be important for plastics).

I'm on TMo and my plan is unlimited. I never switch on my Wifi card, ever. I don't observe any speed difference when I do, and I have no financial incentive. I bet Verizon is the same way. I should mention I live in NYC where 'free wifi' is pretty much unheard of anywhere where you would actually want to use it.

It sounds to me like what you're actually saying is that AT&T's plans and network are so crappy you don't even use them.

Small rural towns could just contract out to Fedex to make deliveries, I'm sure there's a price they would accept to do it. We live in a capitalist society and that generally means that enough money will buy anything. I'm sure private industry could serve small towns more effectively and at lower expense than a bureaucratic dinosaur like the USPS can, and we as a country are already paying USPS to do it. So it's not really a matter of small towns not being able to get service. It's a matter of small towns wanting the rest of the country to pay for that service.

And as someone who lives in the 'rest of the country', I don't really see why, if small towns want something, they shouldn't have to pay for it. (Disclaimer, I have no use for first class mail and don't even want to subsidize my own, much less anybody else's).

Did you not check any sources when you wrote this?

Reading from the original text (Plato's Apology): "Socrates is an evil-doer and corrupter of the youth, who does not receive the gods whom the state receives, but introduces other new divinities."

This sounds a lot like heresy to me...

I have a monitor and a keyboard and moues at my desk at work. I plug them into my laptop when I come in. If I want power, I use a server.

No desktop machine is involved.

Just tried a bunch of UAs, and your'e right they are UA sniffing, only letting webkit through I guess.

This is really just even more damning though: they're sniffing UAs, and they sniff a different set of UAs when they think you're a dev than when they think you're a consumer.