Yes, I realize you're kidding to an extent, but the entire point of this exercise would be not to antagonize those people you're trying to help quit smoking.

If you make the videos too annoying, or the designated area(s) too annoying, the kiosk will get vandalized in no time, the area(s) will get avoided and ignored by your target audience. Or may be worse, those people your'e trying to help may get so annoyed -- they'll light up more cigarettes than usual just and they'll make it a point of pride to combat the program you've set up for them.

It could.

With HTC officially unlocking its bootloaders and Samsung officially hiring the Cyanogen guy (and then encouraging him to continue doing his custom rom development on the side -- with a healthy salary and no strings attached), custom Android rom development is looking very promising all around.

They won't be suing Apple, nor Microsoft out of existence.

Motorola will be doing most of the suing I bet (at least for the patent portfolio it's already holding). Since Apple and Microsoft are using intermediaries to do some of their suing, I would expect Google to do a little bit of the same as well. Using proxies would compartmentalize some of the risks of losing some lawsuits (I would assume).

Krispy Kreme is trademarked. Jelly bean seems not to be.

A little known fact, the reason Android is now using generic pastry names is because they were originally using well-known android names, but they were afraid they'd get sued by the IP owners of those Android characters.

Aside from looking for the keywords "kiosk-mode" when searching for a solution tailored to the OS you have in mind, I'd suggest you revisit this entire tablet idea in the first place. Your tablet will most likely be locked down to some heavy furniture for security reasons, so what is the point of making it an expensive fragile tablet anyway. Also, it will require headsets unless you want to bother all the employees and fellow patients with the sound of those videos.

If I were you, I'd make a real kiosk and I'd place an old television and VCR in it, with a couple of directional speakers (like what they use in museums). And I'd place the kiosk outside in a location where all the patient smokers actually go to smoke a cigarette. My mother does that, she smokes a cigarette before she enters an hospital, and she smokes one as soon as she gets out of one.

If there are no obvious central locations for visiting smokers to congregate, I'd suggest you create one or two first and actually make sure that those areas get used by real smokers that frequent your medical center (before you start investing too much energy in placing kiosks at those locations). The worst thing you can have is a designated area for smokers that nobody actually uses, despite the fact that everybody continues on smoking anyway near the entrance and exits of your Medical Center.

In any case, this was just an idea. I realize you're only the techie implementing this, not the guy making the actual decision, but I just thought I'd throw my half-baked idea in anyway.

There is if you're like me, and just use 4G only when you really need it and for just short amounts of time.

Hopefully, the iPad will start copying the Android tablets at some point.

Those oversized icons look great on a phone, but they only make the tablet look like an oversized phone -- which it's not.

Yes, but with an iPad (just like with the locked down iPhone), expect to pay an outrageous price to Apple for changing the battery (or expect the Apple battery to be no longer offered by Apple), so when the time comes, it will probably be cheaper to just buy a new entire iPad for yourself.

You seem to be already convinced child porn was indeed posted and remained on Reddit. Is that really true? Posting a suggestive mainstream picture of Britney Spears when she was seventeen years old, and calling her jailbait, or calling the picture itself child porn, is a criticism of the media establishment itself (or an indictment of the hypocrisy of our times). It's not an indictment that Reddit is trading in Child Porn itself, on the contrary.

If the pictures had really been child porn, the FBI would have been contacted and a very specific process would have been followed. If anything, those pictures were posted and tagged that way because they escaped the official classification of child porn, and yet, some people felt that they were wrong to have even been taken and productized in the first place.

And making all the geeks to be like Richard Stallman is sheer nonsense. By that logic, all republicans must love to have sex with underaged boys because Mark Folley loved underaged boys. And all married republicans, the males anyway, must want open marriages because Newt Gingrich wanted one. If you think about it, the republican party is patriarchal, so it makes complete sense for its male elders to think they're entitled to anything and everything they want. And of course, let's not forget Bill Clinton, an inspiration to all the male democrats, who thought that having sexual relations only meant sexual intercourse (and everything else must be free game and ok with a subordinate if you just label it something else).

And you Bonch, if you want to make a difference, a real difference, go after the places that originally published those pictures in the first place. Right now, you're doing the opposite of Richard Stallman, which in my opinion is just as crazy. You're indicting Reddit for something you call "child porn", and yet, you're censoring the debate by refusing to acknowledge the real producers of that very specific "child porn": the magazines, the parents, the photographers, and the mainstream media that purposefully produced and productized that borderline child pornography in the first place (not to mention the unsupervised teenagers that posted their own suggestive pictures online to productize themselves and/or to attract attention).

If this is really true (I don't know if it is, I don't have a Southwest account), he should really get their PCI certification revoked. Once Southwest is barred from processing credit cards, I can bet you they'll turn off that mobile login feature in 30 minutes flat (patch or no patch).