That bill was referred to committee and seems to have died there. Even in Congress, they know that Lieberman is a loon.

Too bad AMD still can't deliver on real-life processor performance. Bulldozer was nothing short of an embarrassment.

webOS had a C++ API (the PDK) too.

OpenOffice/LibreOffice is written in C++, although a few non-core components are in Java.

"Additionally, the Law states that the owners and administrators of Internet cafés or other places that offer access to the Internet might be found guilty of violating this Law and fined and their businesses might be closed if users of Internet services provided by these places are found visiting websites located outside of Belarus and if such behavior of the clients was not properly identified, recorded, and reported to the authorities. The Law states that this provision may apply to private individuals if they allow other persons to use their home computers for browsing the Internet."

Other OS's are more secure than Linux, UNIX, and OS X, too. Just remember that while you're being smug.

The US hasn't admitted to it, and there's some evidence that points to an Israeli origin. Why jump to conclusions when there's no need to for this article?

Neither webOS or Android is just "a skin" on Linux. Android uses a Linux kernel, but the rest of the stack is almost entirely custom and completely unrelated to anything most people would recognize as "Linux." webOS is closer, but still involves extensive custom engineering, especially for the graphics/video components.

In other words, democracy sucks because it's too tough to deal with people who disagree with you, and they should be kicked into their own country. Got it.

How is Itanium not RISC? It's fixed-length and load-store, which is the conventional definition of "RISC." There's no real difference between VLIW-as-implemented-by-IA64 and a conventional superscalar in-order RISC with parallelism hints, and this is coming from someone who's been doing Itanium assembly language for a few years. Vista and Windows 7 continue supporting IA64 in their server versions.

Performance is, however, strongly affected by clock speed. Cortex-A8 isn't too far off microarchitecturally from the Pentium (two-issue, in-order), so they're probably not too far off in performance-per-cycle. Current-gen A9 cores are (I would say) around a fast Pentium II or a low-clocked Pentium III.

Every Windows release from the NT line since NT 3.1 has run on at least one RISC architecture.

It's a SoC. No external chipset necessary.

You can run software you want on iPhone OS. Does the name Cydia ring any bells?

There have been plenty of locked-down, market-only Android devices too, by the way. Motorola Backflip and other early AT&T Android devices are proud members of that club.

What do you lose out on, specifically? The ability to run a slow pseudo-Java runtime?