I'm a tech support guy for PGP (now owned by Symantec), so I have some unique insights into email encryption. I think the vast majority of people using email encryption are doing so for regulatory reasons. For the most part, they are financial institutions or deal with financial institutions. Very few individuals are worried about personal privacy, but rather the security of corporate and financial data. Even if they are worried, storing it behind a password is sufficient for them.

Even without using PGP or an OpenPGP-compliant software (like GPG), there's still a fair amount of security built into email these days. All webmail uses HTTPS. SMTP uses STARTTLS to secure the session before any useful data gets sent. When we use a mail client, many of us are using POP3S or IMAPS which, again, adds in SSL. The transit layer is encrypted from end to end, even if the data stored on a mail server or in our mail client is not. Encrypting the individual messages is only really necessary if you're concerned about the messages being obtained from your local hard drive or a mail server. For most of us, I imagine that really isn't the case.

A lot of the phones listed as abandoned now comprise an ever-shrinking part of the Android market. Many of them are first-gen devices on-par with the G1, the first Android phone. Most 2nd and 3rd gen Android phones have been getting updates to FroYo and Gingerbread from the manufacturers because they learned a lot from those 1st gen devices. For reference, consider Google's numbers on which OS each active phone is running: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html

The reality is that a developer can likely create an app for FroYo and up that will still be mass market. People running Eclair, Donut, or Cupcake are in an every-shrinking segment of the Android ecosystem. And honestly? Those of us who bought those 1st gen devices kind of knew what we were getting into or probably should have known better. I have a Moment and recognize that I'm bleeding a bit for being an early adopter. (That said, the updates from SDX for FroYo have been awesome. They're also working on Gingerbread.)

Current Android phones are better able to handle updates than their predecessors, so they get better updates. This article is kind of a non-news item.

As in I could not find a way to delete a Bloglines account when I switched to Google Reader. Now it looks like they found a way to do it for me. Thanks, guys!

Adobe's the one requiring a Cortex A8 and they've said that getting it to run on older ARM11 architectures is dicey at best. Just passing along what the OP didn't know. Whether or not the older ARM11 processors are capable of running Flash is certainly open to debate, but it doesn't matter if they are capable if Adobe won't port to it.

No, and no Moment, G1, Cliq, Backflip, etc. You need a minimum of a Cortex A8-family processor to run Flash and many lower-end and older Android phones just don't pack the horsepower to pull it off.

Another good application would be for PMPs and other mobile devices. Who cares if you have one pixel decoded improperly? Odds are you won't notice on that tiny screen and you'd happily trade that for doubling your battery life. Power consumption is, at best, a tertiary concern on a desktop or server.

Not to mention Blackberry, a platform with a commanding (for now) 44% of the smartphone market. Combined with Android and various dumbphones, the odds are that if you're doing mobile development, you're using either Java or Objective C. It's also used in a significant number of middleware projects and for server backends. You know, stuff that's really important that you don't see. Anyone dumb enough to discount Java as dead just because its use on the desktop is limited deserves to march themselves right into irrelevancy in the job marketplace.

Las Vegas is just as bad. You're either stuck in a call center hell OR you find a buddy in casino IT to get your foot in the door. There's almost nothing in the way of mid-career positions so that you can keep moving up the chain.

Qwest did the same thing to UTOPIA in Utah and delayed construction for 18 months. They thought they could assert ownership over the power company's poles and refuse to allow UTOPIA to use them. (Yeah, I can't explain the "logic" either.) In the end, they lost the case and won some of the war by forcing UTOPIA to refinance their bonds and put them in a situation where they'll have to call city tax pledges anyway. UTOPIA will still be able to make bond service in a few years, but now they have the PR black eye of having to collect tax money to make it happen.

You missed the most obvious one: kudzu, that vine that covers the entire South and chokes out all native vegetation in the same of stopping erosion. On the plus side, it does make for some good jelly...