All of you guys arguing about a system that makes healthcare available to those who don't have it - assume the vulnerable as it seems they are most likely to benefit - sounds like base savagery. I can't begin to imagine that you think the free market is a better fit for such a basic human requirement.

Here in the UK thousands upon thousands of doctors do exactly that so they can be part of a society-wide force for good called the NHS. The NHS is a mandatory insurance policy which every UK citizen pays for, but the doctors could certainly get paid more for going private.

It is base cynicism that appears to be the worst disease affecting US society.

I have to agree with this. I tried (and tried and tried) to move my company's ailing VB-based CRM system to a OOTB solution, but none of the platforms I tried (Sugar, VTiger, and a few others) really did what we needed. Either too much or too little complexity and customisation with each.

In the end I gave up and spent a week designing, and then another two weeks implementing, the first version of a custom-built solution using Zend Framework (yes sorry, feel free to snarl at my framework/language choice, but it's great for quick prototyping and RAD). Obviously I've had endless feature/bug fix requests ever since, but after initially trawling the SugarCRM code it became clear that any amount of customisation on their awfully confused and verbose code would be so troublesome, and that our needs as an small business were so specific, that getting any of the other solutions into shape was going to be an entirely joyless exercise.

If they'll give you a few weeks of time to do it yourself, and you follow good coding practice, you'll end up with something far more lightweight and fit for purpose.

Degenerate by whose reckoning? Was this study funded by christian science or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_protection_system

Also in response to your point about automated speed limits - Spain actually has this on most high-speed train tracks - as do most countries with high-speed trains. very unfortunately just not on this particular one.

This was, as far as I'm aware, to be a mag-lev train in a near-vacuum tunnel. Hitting the sides is basically impossible, even during a power failure, and the train can presumably be brought to a hault by simply switching off power in one section of track, much like most metro trains.

Indeed, I've always thought that agreeing to allow the Activesync portion of the Android exchange client to remotely wipe all my data was a bit harsh. That said, I'm in charge of the Exchange server so there ain't gonna be any wiping of my phone. Obviously the boss has to stay nice though.

Yeah, I was always utterly confused as to why they stuck to Blackberry for this, rather than using Skype on iPhone/Android. I think that most people viewed Skype as "calling" application, even though the text chat was totally fine. It's already cross-platform and free. Must be the Microsoft curse at work.

This is exactly the same as Good ( http://www1.good.com/applications/good-for-enterprise ) and Samsung Knox is something similar.

I wonder if they'll manage to carve out a place for themselves based on BES inertia. However, having administered BES, I sincerely hope they do the dodo.

Are you trolling? How can a democracy, even one where the incumbent party uses dirty tricks to stay in power, ever be communist? I don't think you know what the word means, apart from some sort of "like the evil old USSR" attribution. Please go and read something about politics before spouting off on subjects you are clearly extremely ignorant of.

As for democratic politicians using dirty tricks, if I can assume you are a US citizen for a moment, you may want to look back at Fox calling votes for Bush Jr when in fact no such thing had occurred. Corruption and dirty tricks happen wherever there is power, not just under communism and certainly not just in Russia.

Regardless of this, it still works with 64-bit VFL drivers. I have been using Skype on 64-bit Debian for around a year with my V4L-2 compatible webcam.

Speak for yourself. Sunbathing here in Sweden is absolutely not unhealthy at reasonable levels (IE - not without sunblock at 1PM). I also like to have a good book with me to read in the sun (on the beach/in the park or wherever) and so back-lighting *is* a problem. Also - why the hell wouldn't I take my device to the beach? Are you too clumsy to keep your stuff out of the sand?