I thought it used Apache Harmony with a strict "no GPL in userspace" rule for Android. Funnily Apache, IBM, Oracle and others were allies against Sun's rule over Jaba and wanted more equal footing of alternatibe implementations. Oracle quickly changed tune after buying Sun.

What do you think about the "anykernel" concept (invented by another Finn btw) used in NetBSD? Basically, they have modularized the code so that a driver can be built either in a monolithic kernel or for user space without source code changes ( rumpkernel.org ). The drivers are highly portable and used in Genode os (L4 type kernels), minix etc... Would this be possible or desirable for Linux? Apparently there is one attempt called "libos"...

I have not tried ABP but lots of firefox extensions do work on Android so it seems like a useless project to make an "Adblock browser". Those who have a little bit of knowlege (and root) most likely already have adaway from f-droid installed making it even less useful

I am curious to know if Replicant works with the latest kernel. One reason as far as I have understood it with the "old" kernels also on the latest ROMs is for compatibility with blob Android drivers. If Replicant does not have those, it should be possible to already run linux 4.0 on it?

Since most device-to-computer communication now is via mtp or wireless : why use FAT32? For Android (especially Samsung) F2FS would make far more sense.

Distributed storage capacity has the potential to even out the prices over the day and match consumption and production. It also solves a major issue with most renewables. It would be even more interesting if people were allowed to store cheap electricity and sell it back during expensive hours for profit.

AICP seems interesting... will try :)

I am definitely moving away from CM as soon as this bundling gets in place. What would be the best alternative Omnirom? Something else?

No but E30 officially stretches to Ireland. I suppose via ferry.

I think the idea is to hook up 3 already existing trans-continental highways. Europe's E30 is already connected to the Trans-siberian highway (so basically a road all the way from Ireland to Vladivostok). The big idea here would be to hook this up to trans-continental highways in North America (the trans-canadian something?).

As a non-native speaker using English daily with other non-native speakers, I must say that it is the ideal global lingua franca. First of all, it is very open-minded about "broken" pronounciation and minor grammatical errors ("Bad English" is actually a thing). In contrast to other big languages, it is not as obviously tied to a single nation or culture - so everyone can make it "theirs". (Other large languages expect perfection and a non-native speaker will be treated as intellectually inferior) I think one explanation for this could be that English itself stared off as a hybrid language (Germanic Saxon/Scandinavian mixed with Latin midevial French - and possibly some ancient Celtic in the mix).

Anyone know how some animals get the golden yellow colour? That would be cool.

The EU comission (basically "federal government") and EU parlament have voted for. It is stuck at the council of ministers (basically the second chamber representing the national governments). It is very popular for national politicians to use EU as a scape goat, but here the blame is on them.

Out of curiosity: is there a point with ObjC++ or are the advantages of C++ and ObjC redundant? Secondly : is C++ still a superset of C89 or have they diverged further?

The basic idea would be physiotherapy afterwards to make the brain re-learn how to move the body