I like how this post seems to just sum up every Slashdot comment ever without actually saying anything.

This man no longer cooks rice or uses a microwave, and his hair has gotten much grayer.

This is the same SOB that was at the root of SO MUCH OF IT. And now he carps about the mess that he created. gads, if the guy was an American, he would be a registered republican.

I was with you until you got to the last two words. I think you should replace "registered republican" with "politician." Hypocrisy is not exclusive to the Republican party.

From TFA:

Google Chrome Team is working on identifying tabs that play audio in order to exclude them from the list of tabs to discard when memory runs out.

I hope they keep the indicator in the final builds, it will be useful for closing tabs with obnoxious sounds coming from them.

A lot of people are probably going to come on here and talk about how you can just root your standard Android tablet and then set it up to work the same way.
Frankly, I think that's a lot of work. Possibly more than $800 worth of work at standard IT wages. I think every corporate IT department should invest in one of these, it would seriously improve network security on the whole.

We don't need multiple rendering engines, we just need one standards compliant one

Ideally, yes that's true. In practice, this would result in the one becoming a defacto standard, and whomever controls the one controls the standard. We are already kind of seeing this with WebKit. Competition is never a bad thing.

"Sneaker-netting" refers to transferring files via USB flash drives.

Am I the only one who read it that way? I was shocked and horrified until I reread it...

I wish I had mod points. This is the funniest thing I've read on here in a while. It's goes above and beyond trolling.

I think the point is really that the summary makes it sound like Android is not Linux. It is Linux, but it has a different userland from what people normally think of as Linux (GNU/Linux).

It's important to make the distinction because people have a tendency to forget that Android is Linux. As soon as it became popular many people accused it of not being "linuxy" enough.

Agreed. Why can't the plasma widgets just save their positions and change back when the resolution changes back?

I thought I might mention, Sony does particularly nicely with bootloader unlocking. They have a website with instructions and everything.

The only downside (for people who get their phones from carriers) is that they allow the carriers to prevent their instructions from working.

I'm sorry, but that's downright untrue. See for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Uri#Web_browser_support

Version 9 does not have the 32 KiB limit.

What on earth does that mean?

I will miss channels. It was nice being able to turn on the TV and then completely shut off my brain. The ability to decide what to watch and when comes (for me) with the annoyance of having to decide what to watch and when.