Because a third party text messaging app could be much better than the one built into your phone? Because a third party app could offer you mesh networking, tethering with multiple SIDs and VLAN isolation, etc.

iOS has solved the problem of security in text messaging apps? In apps that allow innovative network access methods?

Oh right. They haven't solved it, they just don't allow those apps.

Well Android does offer more way more granularity than iOS. I think iOS is nicer in the way it will prompt for a couple of the permissions. That said, iOS can't do many of the things android can, so it's not really an apples to apples comparison.

Facebook can't read your texts on iOS because it's not possible. My app doesn't require a permission to access network state on iOS because my app can't change it anyway.

It's easy to do security by simply stopping developers from being able to do things. Of course you just have to trust that Apple is doing all your security properly since there's no way to validate that fact.

Android needs to add two levels of permissions for much of this stuff. You basically have to ask for everything or nothing. I wanted to check network state in my current app, which requires asking for permission to change the user's networks. I don't want to change their networks. I just want to see if the network is up.

I also think averages should go away. Most people think they are being reported the median (the number in the middle) when people tell them the average. It's great for real estate agents, and people trying to advocate for tax reform, but the numbers are not what people think they are.

Well to answer your answer, yes, societal expectations do change around age 13 to favor more differences between the sexes.

But I can't find where you're getting that information in the articles.

" is a huge leap to extrapolate from anatomical differences to try to explain behavioural variation between the sexes. Also, brain connections are not set and can change throughout life."

So... basically this could be 100% enculturation and there could be zero genetic differences. This is essentially the equivalent of pointing out that people who do a lot of running have strikingly different looking cells in their leg muscles than people who sit on the couch all day. Jumping to the runners being born with different leg muscles might not be the correct answer.

The advanced CLI is for the sysadmin. The WebUI allows you to lock down users to say 1 port on a machine and give them a nice shiny button to click on.

My company builds a replacement (http://uplogix.com), smarter version of a serial console. They can all be managed by web UI and you can term directly into each device, keep configuration on them, and keep each device mapped to its outlet on the power controller. We even have a virtual version that runs on vSphere. You can hook up all the ports via telnet and keep your existing term server, but getting the benefits of the rich CLI and web UI.

Sounds like a perfect use case for you.

This is basically just a paid cops program. Which is not a horrible idea. Paying minimum wage to people who might otherwise be committing crimes doesn't seem like a bad idea.
A private police force it is not, however.

There will always be a market for status. What form that status takes is another thing entirely.

And in the same spirit. Companies really like seeing 30 second movies about themselves on TV regardless of return on investment. Internet Ads are nowhere near as fun as TV ads or magazine ads you can put in a frame.

I might buy that line of reasoning if I couldn't fire up the Facebook website on my phone and tablet and compare the speed with the app.

They're having trouble returning a few hundred lines of text and 10 photos. Methinks HTML rendering speed is not even remotely their problem.

I can't develop on it without Windows. Same beef I have with iPhone (although the iPhone has an installed base to make be bother buying a mac).

Android is easy to develop on using pretty much any OS. This is the same reason that PHP and Java have more mindshare than C# and Visual Basic. Devs can run any OS they want and still get work done.