PHP is not the problem with rcmail or squirrelmail or any of the other freely available web-based email systems, most of which run on PHP or even better, ASP or ASP.NET. They are their own problems. None of them are half as usable as gmail. Some of them are almost half as usable as a typically bad desktop email client. But PHP is not even a slight impediment, because you don't need anything out of PEAR or what have you in order to run any of these. You just need typical modules dealing with mail, e.g. imap.

I live in former Pacific Bell territory, and in the boonies to boot. I can't get DSL because they're still patching bits that broke since the 1980s in my neighborhood.

I was watching a Werner Herzog documentary about trappers in the Siberian taiga and, long story short, one trapper was complaining about trappers who will trap before some kind of critter's coat was really ready, on the basis that a few coins in his pocket now is better than someone else getting full price for the pelt later if they trap it instead of him. It's universal, and it's the reason why I'm a liberal and not an anarchist; without adequate restrictions on commerce it rapidly becomes first and foremost an instrument of tyranny. Kind of like now.

It does in fact make you a victim if you were encouraged into those poor decisions by fraud.

They can't make a profit delivering the paper to you without advertising, so what you're really saying is "I don't want a physical paper". Which is cool, neither do I. But it doesn't take three paragraphs to say it.

Apple was offered the opportunity to join the pool and pay nothing, but they decided that shit like swipe-to-unlock was more important than the standards-related patents which they have refused to pay for. It is perfectly possible for one organization to both be a legitimate patent holder and a patent troll, and Apple is trolling the world with bullshit patents and refusing to license them on a reasonable basis. Samsung took the only road available to them.

Samsung offered to cross-license FRAND patents with Apple, and Apple refused to give up their trivial bullshit never-should-have-been-granted patents into the pool of FRAND patent related to cellphones in exchange for access to the actual technological patents covering how cellphones work.

Congratulations, you have completely failed to understand civil disobedience. It does not require that you be happy to be arrested, and speeding most certainly is civil disobedience, and not only that, but it is a popular protest. It is normal to drive for miles without ever seeing anyone not speeding.

Right, that's why people hate the pigs.

That's OK, if you're not buying heavy equipment, you won't be buying anything from the USA anyway. Will you stop consuming American media?

Who are you even talking about?

And you still bought a Samsung TV? Methinks price was a major factor.

You are not an end user. If you can code then you are a developer who happens to use other people's software. End users "use" the software. When it stops serving their need they find something else.

When it works on your platform, XBMC is a way to get PBS content in an Android app. The interface is bad, but better than having to use the website.

Samsung isn't stupid....either worry about seminar hack-trolls or patent trolls. In the end, what counts is staying in the public's mind. Mission accomplished, I'd say. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Is anyone as tired as I am over these security risks, especially from CNET? I remember when it was announced that someone could spy thru your window, video tape the lights on your modem and decode your communication. Another day, another risk that only happens in either a lab, workshop or a marketer's imagination. 99% are just to attract eyeballs for ad revenue...especially from CNET.