Bloodsport continues to this day in the form of bullfighting.

Sorry im not from America. None of my colleagues have ever mentioned the organisation thus it carries no prestige or noteworthiness in my country.

Sorry but even after reading the f*ing article, ACM is still a non-obvious acronym for those who weren't aware of it. It's unclear why ordinary Cubans should give 2 shits about conformity.

After a decade of reading Slashdot, I'd never heard of ACM.

Many of those things are available on ARM via the popular Linux distro, Android.

Not through lack of tasting, I've eaten it in Quebec City and Ottawa.

Just that ruining chips by pouring on hot gravy and cheese curds ain't my thing.

Finally they found a use for poutine! :)

I don't think SpiderMonkey/Gecko are the villains here. Specs are in order to reach a price point.

Profit margins on a $25 device are zilch, so manufacturers need to cut corners by releasing products unsuited to a 2015 era OS. Try running iOS 8 or Android 5 on a handset with 128MB and a Cortex A5 CPU - that's a phone released in 2014 with specs equivalent to an iPhone 1 or a Nokia 97 from last decade.

By comparison on better hardware - Performance on their reference phone, the Flame, is decent. ZTE are releasing the Open-L this month with a quad core Snapdragon 210. Hardly iPhone 6 territory but still - The previous model has been retailing for about $US77 here in Australia. When my Flame breaks I'll willingly shell out the dough...

These aren't your grandfather's web applications.

You download a bundle from the firefox marketplace and it installs on your device. Offline. Such an app will thus use no more 3G data than a corresponding app for iOS or Android.

The Z1 comes with 768MB of RAM which is 24 times the requirement here - you accuse Google of bloat?

The video from the JSConf is fun. A "software guy" smashes open his €60 phone to extract the main board, fully scriptable from JavaScript accessible via the Firefox development tools.

This could see a hobbyist after-market for phones with cracked screens... Built in wifi, bluetooth, GPS, 4G, camera etc.

Looks like Logo to me - instructs the turtle to move in the most recent direction of a length specified by a random natural number.

Next Australians will be stopped at airport security for smuggling.

Security Goon: "We detected a suspicious dark slurry in your luggage"
Bloke: "Strewth mate, I'm not stupid enough to bring drugs into a country, with the tragic deaths of Chan and Sukumaran..."
SG: "The canister gave off a salty odour. We fed a sample to our narcotics canine Charlie, who is now convulsing on the floor"
Bloke: "Sorry um that's just my Vegemite. I have it on toast for breakfast"
SG: "You eat that stuff? Surely not!"
Bloke: "Honest to Warnie, I swear. Got any bread on ya?"
SG: "(sniffs and dry retches) No one could stomach that!"
Security Goon 2: "Chemical analysis reveals a high concentration of morphine. Lock him up for ten years"

They did try to interview Cap'n Johnny Sparrow but he was aboard the Black Pearl at the time, ferrying Scooby and Otis back home after Bananaby, gatekeeper of New Holland, declined to Parley.

Sounds like Peronism in a nutshell. Cristina can do whatever she likes as long as she invokes the spirit of Evita.

Nearby neighbours Chile and Uruguay both came out of military dictatorships at roughly the same time but don't have the same crony cult of personality.

Here's a coverage map - http://opensignal.com/coverage...

Most of the population centres, it seems.

I wonder if they have managed to produce any *decent*, affordable Android phones out of Tierra del Fuego yet. That silly electronics tax that just hikes up the prices of international brands, so I'd be curious if they have produced quality tech competitive of what's coming out of Asia. They have the same 240V wall sockets as here in Australia - so I could use my electrical devices there but allegedly the wiring was crippled slightly different to disallow exporting Argentinian goods to Australia without regulatory oversight? Well it's all micro-usb now anyway, at least for phones...