The next standard for email needs some sort of end-user euthanasia upon clickance of said emails.

What would stop the launching of the satellite from a country that does not enforce such restrictions?

It won't be an android copy -- it will likely have different goals, different implementation, different backing.. This is what Google was trying to accomplish with the introduction of Android, a wider, more open phone market. More Linux-based phone systems equals more choice for the consumer, aka us!

In a world with Mesh routing, this wouldn't be an issue.

They tried that, but the chimps don't know their limits and things just got too.. wild.

Over RDP? Riiiight.

And? What happened next?

Mod parent up, AC is onto something!

What about people that don't have routers? They can be even easier to penetrate (lol) and "use".

I think it's somewhat an issue where people think "If I vote Libertarian, my vote will be wasted because no one else will.. So I'll just vote between the two dildos in the huge parties and hope for the best". Since everyone feels the same way, no one ever votes for the Green party except those who realise this can only be countered by actually voting.

Not to mention folks that never vote at all.

Also, they have pills to fix this now.

And the DRM, and the kill switches, and the FUD..

I really do not see how that MBP is worth $2800.

But patents are awesome! More fun to abuse than tor.

Just to clarify, I'm not anti-Apple; I'm anti-Jobs. His wishes to keep Apple extremely exclusive are what is killing the company. I have an iPhone. I don't see how anyone could use the device if it weren't jailbroken due to the number of things you can't do with it (On the iPhoneOS vs. Android issue: who gives a damn?) due to Apple's restrictiveness. You can't even sync an iPod Touch or iPhone using Linux anymore unless you jailbreak, SSH in, and change a config file to revert to an old DB version that doesn't have their hash check.

Back to the topic though, the iPhone would be awesome, and certainly less made fun of, if Apple would get off of their high horse about their products.. But the customer attitudes probably fuel this.