Big problem, easy solution: they make those calls because there is money to be made. Remove that incentive: make a law that all contracts due to robocalls do not require payment, the customer does not have to pay. The other side has to keep delivering for free as long as the contract.

That's a no-go for me, I definitely want adblock and tracking protection, and hosts file blocking can be too crude, especially against tracking.

At least in Europe, you get something in return for those taxes. It isn't wasted almost entirely on wars and the offence industry (calling it "defence" is just propaganda in the US).

Even if there are riots, they won't help. Police officers still shoot black kids in the back out of self defence.

So Twitter has made a choice and choose to be a US propaganda channel? Do they ban all those repoblican warmongsters too, who I consider far more dangerous for this plannet than some fanatics in the middle east? Or can they just continue to use their free speech?

If you publicly choose sides, don't be surprised when it has consequences.

Sounds like an adequate descriptionof the USA.

You don't need root to use F-Droid.

That has nothing to do with apps.

For iOS, most apps require the latest version to run, and Apple actively pushes developers to do this. When I check the requirements for the Android apps I use, most require Android 2.3 or higher, some 4.0 or higher and some very specific ones require 4.4, but that's SDFix, to fix usage of SD cards that was broken in 4.4. So for most Android apps nearly every phone is supported, given sufficient storage. Maybe some games will become slow, but other apps usually don't care much.

I think they still believe in windows phone and the one size fits all ideology.

Windows 95 looked much better than windows 8 and leter. Heck, even 3.1 looked better. This seems more like a 1980 design to me: it had to be what they now call "flat" because the hardware could not handle anything better.

However, you can download ebooks fro torrentsites and sites like Mobilism for free. That's a clear advantage over a paper book.

Unless you can deploy it widely, like Moxie did when it got the Textsecure protocol integrated into WhatsApp for Android. In my country, there are 9,3 milion WhatsApp account for 17 milion people. No serious security service can claim all those 9 milion are propably terrorists.

" Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador why Muslims held so much hostility towards America"

The most honest answer would probably have been that they were just pirates and attacked any ship they thought they could win from without serious retalliation.

"You really think this is a US only, and recent US only, issue?"

No, of course not. Terrorist attacks are common in Iraq, some African countries, Pakistan and the middle east. But since the US is the country that with by far the most foreign aggression, it has to live with the fact that it becomes a high-profile target.