What a dirtbag. All the more reason to buy a Ford.

Install Linux Mint 13 LTS. For remote administration, install SSH server & x11vnc, and forward SSH port to the LM13 machine. Done! I did this for my Dad and have had no complaints; he has Firefox, Chromium, LibreOffice and his DropBox contents. I log in on occasion and perform an "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" to update his box.

"...-or like the smartphone precursor to Colossus, the supercomputer from Colossus: The Forbin Project movie that's so intelligent, it decides that the world would be better off if it ruled over humanity."

Atari 800 -> Atari 1040 ST ->DESQview (DOS) -> OS/2 -> Win2K -> WinXP -> Linux (CentOS & Linux Mint)

I've been doing this for a long while now using Locale on my Android phone.

My T61 literally died the week after my warranty expired. I should see if there is a class-action lawsuit concerning this widespread issue.

His name sake virus scanner murders my PCs performance daily.

Hey HTC, make all of your Android phones AOSP "Nexus" phones and profit!

You need the RCA ANT751R Outdoor Antenna and perhaps a RCA TVPRAMP1R Outdoor Antenna Preamplifier.

Don't worry, he is in the first stage right now.

RIM could run Android in a VM and the BB infrastructure in another, signed VM, thus partitioning the unsecured from the secured and maintain compatibility.

I believe RIM could do it, but it will require some out-of-the-box thinking and courage on their part. I don't think they have many hands left at this point.

That may be true, but at this point, no one is picking up what RIM is putting down.

Most times it's better to swim with the school than to strike out on your own.

Good point, but I believe a BB device, using an Android OS which incorporates RIM's back-end messaging and security features, would differentiate it's devices in the market.

This just goes to show you that boneheads are in charge at RIM. RIM, you want to fix business, just bite the pillow and adopt Android for your handsets. Problem solved.

Why not pre-install LibreOffice and provide a link to download Microsoft Office just in case someone feels they still have to have it?