Just because she said "Who's yo mommy now" doesn't mean it was a mom... ;-)

What do you mean, for my benefit? Have I missed something in the moderation system? Simply an anonymous poster won't get notifications about his posts being modded up or down, I don't see the point...

In the same way that socialism is the theory, and communism is what happens when you implement it.

I could go on with other ideologies, but I'm trying very hard not the get a Godwin point here, so I'll end this way: Maybe we're all fallible so the people at the top will always end up being greedy and corrupt. But then there's no good way of "governing", and for the moment capitalism has given more people a chance than any other before so I'll keep that for now thanks.

(One hint of a solution, make sure every political office term comes with no pay to show your commitment, and with a year in prison at the end, you know, just in case ;-)

It sure as hell ain't communism, Vladimir.

But you lost your mod point so... Well, it's not nice to pick, so no. You're not.

There's a tendancy not to mod Anon Cowards up or down -- I very rarely do. Because they're anonymous, it doesn't actually affect your karma/profile, so it would be useless. This leaves you prone to more statistical anomalies than if you actually had a profile and used it to post.

Gain and Profit are usually quite close in meaning. Money is also a mean of recognition :-P

Enlarge your penis!

I take it you haven't watched Homeland?

Have I missed something here? The One X+ which is out in the coming days ships with Android, doesn't it?

That's one of the issues with many committers, you can't review all the code before it ships off in a build. I seem to remember a bug in openssl where some kid commented an entropy line "because it showed warnings at compile-time" and managed to commit it without raising suspicions.

Bottom line, where are the code reviewers in this process? QA?

I've lived close to the British culture and deep in the French one. It sounds a bit like when the French turned off the Minitel (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/06/28/1241252/france-ending-minitel-service). Both early interactive services which came over an old delivery method (TV sets for Ceefax, telephone lines for the Minitel).

It's sad to see them go, but it's probably also time to acknowledge that they are obsolete (and costly to maintain) compared to the Internet.

Not according to everyone...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration

If Paddy Roy Bates is the master of Sealand, do his subjects call him Master?

Sure, the HTC CEO reads slashdot every day.