Why would you use lightbulbs in the 21st century ? A LED lamp will last 10 times longer on the same battery and will also have a much longer lifetime. And there are now LEDs available that are more powerful than the best Maglight, just look for bike lights above 100$.

Safer ? You don't see the flame, which makes it a liability.

You can also install Firefox on your smartphone (Android at least) and then install the AdBlock addon just like on the desktop version. Without having to root anything.

Yes. And add to this one little trick that was used in ancient Greece: at the end of the term, hold a little vote on wether or not the leader did a good job.if not, he's executed.

Why don't you fucking release Radio Free Albemuth first, heh ?!?

I'm curious as to why you use the term 'streaming' for local network storage ? I too have copies of videos and music on a local NFS server, locally mounted on the various laptops. I don't call this 'streaming'. Am I missing something ?

I had the same problem, after rooting it I noticed plenty of Gb of log files, which I deleted. But the phone kept getting slower after each update so I installed CyanogenMod and it got a 2nd lease on life.

You are right. Why isn't there a customary retirement age for politicians ?!? WHY ?
It's there for ALL other professions, at least in my country.

They'd have to shoot me in order to do that... As someone who's in pain when an eyelash touches my eye but won't even notice a broken ankle for 3 days...

In the story anybody had to take some automated interview to get any job in government (including running for elections). You figure out quickly that only certain 'types' of people fit the mold, which was intended from the start but had unfortunate side effects. Unfortunately they are not the kind of people who where needed. And it brings about the end of civilization... While some kind of ersatz tech government is still present but everybody starves.

Every time I hear that sentence, I get shivers. 40 years on and it's still one of the very greatest human achievement.

Why do you want to _develop_ on an embedded system ?!? Use a Linux PC for development and then test your code on your embedded platforms. I use Ubuntu for the former, with either buildroot or a direct gcc eabi. If the development platform _must_ be low power, like you develop from an african field with a solar panel, get a netbook.

Or the much better programming construct 'comefrom'...

Both are wrong and happen only with Python (or Fortran 66)

So, is there a downside to hacking the data on those devices to make it look like you drive like a grandmother, just half a mile on sunday morning to church ?