http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

This is the important part. Walled gardens are inherently more secure, it has nothing to do with Apple's competence.

anyone been able to crack the admin pwd yet?

Adblock+Ghostery+Downloading all my movies/tv. I don't get any advertising, let alone that which "follows" me.

Other advantage of gmail is it actually groups "conversations" so you don't end up with 100 emails for a long running converstation. Email becomes like a thread that you are subscribed to (with reply all) instead of a cluster fuck of messages all over the place. If people are smart about it you can easily take people in and out of the thread (we usually start emails with -Somebody or +Somebody when we do that).

I believe cyanogenmod allows you to fine-tune application permissions.

Actually the web/html is the analogy of English. Sending doc files around is antiquated, and if someone wants to send me one they better send it in a standard format.

Can you provide a citation for this? I would like to rebut a friend of mine who is blaming this all on the union.

I see it as someone sending me a garbage document. If you want to communicate with me, communicate in a known and accepted way. ie if you and Microsoft make up your own version of English, don't expect the rest of the world to cow-tow to you.

Its about time... we might actually be able to start using it.

iOS is 2nd in market share in mobile just like Apple is 2nd in market share on desktop. How does coming in 2nd in every market they touch make them the "800 lb gorilla"?

It's called ad hominem. The fact that it is Florian writing this does not necessarily make the facts wrong, but it makes it such that you must use a different source.

For the purposes of photography the law treats shopping malls as public space - ie you have no privacy. The owner can still have rules regarding photography, but the only way to enforce them is to ask the person to leave - which this teen was attempting to do when the guard assaulted him.

Maybe you didn't read the story, but the teen was attempting to leave when the guard assaulted him.

1. It was in a public space. He was legally allowed to take that picture.
2. Media credentials do not have anything to do with legality. The state need not recognize you as a journalistic institution for you to have freedom of the press.
3. I applaud him photographing the takedown. Clearly we have different opinions there.