All I want is for the android platform to distinguish internet access for it's purpose. ie, have a permission that says this app shows adverts or another for collects usage stats. These would then have limited access to some websites already preconfigured or even restricted to Google or the phone provider/carrier. Then if this is part of the API the phone can control what information is allowed through, even restrict the granularity of information (ie, age groups, or country rather than city). I'm happy if the app is honest with its intentions, then I'm more likely to trust and use it.

Make them out of lego like bricks that can be reconfigured and we have a V0.1 Replicator. I'm sure there won't be any problems with little robot armies building everything for us

Mod this up! This is so insightful it should be a tattoo!

I was going to write a lot more but it can be summed up with this: I can't decide if you are trolling or something else. Did you really buy licences for products that have free trials without trying them out first to see if they were suitable?

I believe that will not work, eBay requires sellers to provide a reimbursement method and if it isn't paypal or there are insufficient funds then they reimburse the buyer and then the seller owes eBay. I'd guess at this point eBay is more likely to use any lawful means to obtain the money. Either redirecting payments into the account by giving it a negative balance or lawyers, leg breakers, goons.. you get the idea.

I agree eBay/Paypal need to be more fair and take some responsibility but there are ways for sellers to protect themselves by always mailing items with the right kind of insurance/proof of posting. At the very least, the seller can then claim on the insurance for a reimbursement. It won't prevent ebay being dicks and blocking accounts sadly, thats where they need to improve their processes. If they want to get more auctions back they'll need to do something about the automated bidding software that essentially snipes auctions. It's great up to a point for some buyers but sellers won't see any benefits if all buyers are using the software. I hope they put captchas in at the point of confirming bids so at least it is a human bidding at the last second.

It's not always stupid, sometimes we are not given a choice. I still have IE6. Not because I want to but because my companies customers want to. Plenty of call centres still use IE6 and see updating as an expensive and unecessary task. They usually are running on severely locked down machines with no access to the internet or even the intranet in some cases. So the risk to them not upgrading is pretty low versus the cost of regression testing what might be quite a large number of different applications and not to forget the additional cost of fixing the issues found from testing. So for my development environment I just put my IE6 in a readonly VM, I also have one for IE7 and IE8. The appserver and databases live elsewhere. It reduces the risk of infection and allows me to disable unecessary features as I *only* need the browser for one task.