Why, so they can buy some shitty off-brand memory with an ass warranty?

C'mon. Victoria Neuland, dummy. Appointed under Hillary. You don't think of Hillary as a "neo-con" - but there she is! Appointing the Wife of Robert Kagan and former foreign policy advisor of... Dick Cheney! To the role of Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs.

Or you don't remember her little phone call? "Fuck the EU!"

Neo-con rim job. You don't see it, because the distortion field that Cheney described is in full-effect. You believe that an evil, Russian potentate wants to slowly steal your freedoms - not that a gang of pirates took over the former Russian state of Ukraine - using actual NAZIS to do it.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actorsand you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

The original capital of the Rus, in the foundation of the state around 100 AD, was Kiev. No entity "Ukraine" existed. I figure even IF the Russians were agressive, they have a better claim on that land than the so-called Hebrews do on Palestine.

Non-Muslims have to pay tax (jizya). Muslims have to pay tax too; it just goes by a different name (zakat). Which non-failed state doesn't enforce laws against tax evasion?

Definitely not true. Backwards, in fact. POP defaults to removing messages from the server and must be explicitly configured to leave the messages on the server. IMAP leaves them on the server by default, and IIRC, most IMAP clients don't even provide the option of removing messages from the server until you delete them.

Dead animals and a cave wall.

ISIS is killing a CPR DOLL!

COINTELPRO

It's not just to fuck with darkies and commies any more.

Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant from the perspective of a publisher seeking to distribute its own works.

How closely are e-ink readers coupled to their respective stores? Can they not read epub or mobi format?

Which major platform doesn't already have a reader for epub or mobi format?

A newly installed web application has to create a first authenticated session that lets the founder set his own password (or set his own e-mail address in order to recover his password) and grant himself founder privileges. The URL of this first session is effectively a password (or more properly a substitute for a password), though I'll grant that it should be disabled through other means most of the time.

I see at least two problems.

The first is that Android's permissions are far too coarse-grained. SD card permissions don't have separate settings for "read and write the app's own folder and folders explicitly chosen by the user" and "read and write the whole damn thing". Internet permissions don't have separate settings for "communicate only with a specific set of hostnames" and "communicate with everything". Phone state permissions don't have separate settings for "read whether the phone is ringing as a cue to pause the game or video and save the user's work immediately" and "read the identity of the cellular subscriber whose SIM is in this device".

The other problem is that unlike (say) Bitfrost in OLPC Sugar, Android's model isn't designed for users to be able to turn permissions on and off. A user must either grant all privileges that an application requests or not install the application at all. For example, a keyboard app might be able to read the user's location and contacts, ostensibly for adding nearby landmarks and friends' names to the autocorrect. But a privacy-conscious user has no technical means of preventing the application from misusing those permissions. Android 4.3 experimented with "App Ops", an app on Google Play Store to disable individual permissions of individual applications, but Google did away with that in Android 4.4 because it caused too many applications to crash on an uncaught SecurityException.

Until the device blocks sophisticated users from running their own software. This is where the walled garden concept comes in.

I understand how you might see a non sequitur, so let me connect the dots. Verifying a sender is only authentication. According to the article, authentication should always be followed by authorization, a decision as to whether or not the system should trust software from a particular sender. A platform owner could play up its strong authentication and gloss over the inflexible authorization policy that follows it. And "inflexible authorization policy" is another word for a walled garden.