The next time your kid says the college advisor told him/or her about the great careers awaiting Western Civ graduates, smack the crap out of him/her and MAKE them go to engineering school!!!

They will just run their transactions through Chinese and Russian intermediaries. Inconvenient but not crippling.

Answer: The Titanic had a band.

Apple is not all about "winning" or largest market share. Their philosophy seems to be to push innovative products into the market place at a healthy profit, and let the chips fall where they may.

Played these on an Atari 800. The graphics were pretty primitive, but boy were those games playable.

Google's bullshit and Apple's walled garden. What's the solution? Be like Jason Bourne: prepaid dumb phones, baby.

I'm no expert in open source use conditions, so I won't mind being *ahem* corrected if I display my ignorance here. I totally understand Google wanting to exercise control over the Android OS to avoid some of the nightmares that are happening with carrier customizations, etc. But if they wanted to manage Android that way, shouldn't they have developed (or purchased) their own OS, and not used open source?

Rumor mill says Eric Schmidt.

Any Slashdoters out there who sell Polonium detectors could make a fast sale.