Does this mean I'll have to dance in front of my computer to upgrade to ubuntu 12.0?

easy. by giving a person an h1 that is 100% going to get hired, you dillute the exising base, therefore, lowering the percentage of unemployed people. in reality, the numbers are probably so big that it'll no impact.

I think what's necessary is a simple way to inform people of current and new petitions and allow a very easy way for them to "sign" it. A free mobile app.

To me this is a great opportunity to sell advertising in a virtual world. Just like billboards on highways, they can advertise everything inside the game. I know it's nothing new, but has anyone done it with this model before or with a flight simulator?

I'm not familiar how a carried binds a number to a sim. I don't' see why you couldn't route multiple numbers to a single sim, or even better a sim that's billable via different personalities. Here's the way I'm seeing it. Lots of people are carrying multiple devices. This is often times driven by corporate governance/compliance policy. One device for work, one or more for personal use. Eventually most mobile devices will look the same. I see patent litigation as an attempt to slow the commoditization of mobile devices as much as possible. Once all devices are nearly the same, software and yes, services, will be the differentiating factor. If you offer a single device that can be used in a corporate environment -- mostly to integrate with outlook, and be used as a personal device, then legions of BB users would line up to switch. I think virtualization is the key. They manage one clean restricted OS, I manage the other, virus infected, ad riddled image. How they switch... I'm not sure. Not having to reboot or log as a different user would be really nice.

My guess is a phone os that takes advantage of virtualization or some type of sandboxing so that you can have a single device that you use for personal as well as business use.

maybe you should RTFA.

ya, because getting the message to the wrong person really fast is much more important than getting it to the right person. I would also argue that a message being sent to the wrong recipient is a security issue also.

Not really. If you read the bug, they were checking the vendor string to test whether a certain set of command line args could be passed into the jvm on startup. So, yes it's better to make runtime decisions based on something more structured like reflection as opposed to some string compare. But no, reflection, in the context you're using it would not have helped. They need to look for some identifying feature of the sun/oracle vm. I don't think java reflection can help you there . I'm not a web developer, so when I look at something like you're doing with checking for browser identity based on whether a method is present, I'd say, "what's more likely, Microsoft decides to remove "Microsoft" from the browser id, or you encounter a second browser with an addEventListener on the Document?" Neither is 100%, but you pick the one you like and go with. Unfortunately for the Eclipse devs, they figured sun would probably never change the vendor tag from "sun"?

Do these two numbers actually differ by one bit? 0x0000000000001a70 0x401a70 It looks to me like a byte is getting zero'd somewhere. Bad ram.