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.

Freedom of speech is a human right, unless it's insulting.
But no-one was directly insulted in this joke, it was only a stupid pun.

Maybe dark as in the other side, so no communication with Earth because the Moon is in the way.

"Houston, we're going dark" (Appollo 13, almost ;-)

There's bound to be a corollary to Rule 34 about xkcd... ;-)

This isn't technically true. Democratically elected officials have been lobbied into passing legislation. If you didn't vote for incompetent crooks, this wouldn't happen.

Où sont mes points de modération quand j'en ai besoin ?

Not yet, but they're trying very hard though :-(

I love how this is getting Informative mods... :-)

Well, with Jimmy Darmody gone, maybe Nucky Thompson will make it!

Ever since programming languages existed, they have been classified in 2 categories:
- Those every one bitches about,
- and those nobody uses...