You seem to confuse the right of the ISP to properly manage a network with the right of the ISP to manage the network content.

I'm all for the former. Not so much for the latter.

Wouldn't that be the IBM 5100?

Minor correction: you don't really compile the app twice, rather RIM provides a postprocessor to convert APKs into their own format.

Using their web-based converter it literally took 10min to get one of my apps to run on a friends Playbook.

Android already uses different Unix user IDs ("accounts" if you will) to isolate different applications from each other. This gives you better protection than a desktop operation system, because applications running on the same screen are more isolated from each other.

I'm pretty certain every app under this Toggle scheme will also run in its own context.

I buy the "decentralized" part, but regarding the non-US part: rojadirecta.com has been registered with godaddy.com (a US company for all that I know) since 2005. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume that they could have used a non-US registrar, and further assume that that would have made it more difficult to seize the domain.

Mod me redundant as this has been said already, but this is my personal strategy:

1. Cull photos. If you do serial shots take time before the 1st backup to delete the duplicates. Also, be strict to remove all shots that are not perfect technically, unless their composition or motive is really outstanding.

2. Tag photos. No point in having an archive of 20000 pictures if you can't find them.

3. Back up. As said elsewhere, external disks are cheap. Make sure you have multiple backup disks, and store them physically separate.

4. Use online services. A Flickr pro account is $25/year and allows you unlimited uploads. Backup everything to Flickr as private pictures in the original resolution, then share what you want via guest passes. It may take hours or days to upload a batch of photos, just let the computer do it overnight.

That was my thought as well - there were those stories that not even MS Office supported OOXML completely (that talk about no existing reference implementation).

I guess Australia will go back to typewriters and ledgers ...

Is this really specific to American Airlines?

I noticed on a recent transatlantic Delta flight that the fasten seatbelts lights were on all the time, but nobody seemed to care and the flight attendants certainly didn't enforce it. Or, are you saying that in the 7.5h on your flight nobody went to the restroom.

The baggage fees and nickling&diming for food are indefensible, but it seems they are standard practice in the airline industry these days.

I'd love to see an airline that treats their passengers better, but AFAIK all the major U.S. carriers are equally unfriendly.

I think Google won't prevent you from manufacturing and selling a completely open Android-based handset, but they also won't prevent a vendor from locking it down.

Looks like Android is more like "BSD-open" than "GPLv3-open".

Somebody please mod parent up!

If your email server supports IMAP, try out K9Mail. It uses IMAP IDLE to give you instant notification of incoming mail. On new mail, my phone usually beeps about a second before the desktop email client.

Not intending to troll, just testing my understanding: since UMTS is 3G and all of 3G is CDMA, isn't the last statement somewhat redundant, as in "I've used computers and Macs"?

In essence, what he seems to have done is open the chip to extract the keys (or data that allowed computing the keys).