I've used SSH/telnet clients on every smartphone out there on pretty much every carrier. Not sure what your point is with PuTTY... And I see no reason you wouldn't be able to make a VoIP application for Android, considering you don't need to go through the app store to upload programs onto and the SDK has everything you'd need to do to make that sort of program.

AC clearly has no idea what (s)he's talking about. Move along folks, nothing to see here.

Your argument is entirely ad hominem, while failing to address anything he said. You have no credibility either. As for the topic at hand, I have no opinion.

Standard library != Compiler

They have a very standards compliant compiler. It's true, ever since 2003 or so.

Your point? "To make bold or bolder; hearten; encourage." That is precisely what happened with respect to delaying their release date; an activity that is generally considered a "bold" move from the business standpoint. I'm not really sure what you're getting at. Makes perfect sense to me.

I would like to spend a couple minutes pissing in your coffee by pointing out that goats are not the same thing as sheep.

How long will it take corporate overlords until they finally realize that broad level censorship and trying to control the message are far more harmful than just becoming part of the discourse?

Apple begs to differ.

And this post, ladies and gentlemen, is what's so horribly wrong with our current political system. People who aren't voting for the person, but the party, deserve whatever they get.

This is ENGLAND we're talking about here. You honestly expected them to be on good terms with dental care?

You should really stop getting all your information from Fox News. I hate to break it to you, but they have a very tenuous relationship with reality, especially when it comes to portraying anybody who isn't a hardcore conservative.

It's really a chicken/egg problem as far as I'm aware. Diesel is much more heavily taxed because older diesel tech had its problems, but American diesel tech doesn't improve because diesel fuel is so heavily taxed that it wouldn't be popular.

At least that's how I understand it.

I REALLY wish I could get the new diesel Fiesta here in the United States. From everything I've heard, it's just an excellent car with insanely good gas mileage (better than a Prius). Too bad America hates diesel...

Just goes to so you, it's all a matter of taste.

Anathem was my favorite out of all his books.

Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't really care about this, but as far as I'm concerned using a proxy (at least intentionally) IS sophistication. This is just the legal system realizing that pre-existing rules can be sensibly applied to internet crime as far as I'm concerned.

I know this MAY be hard to believe, but (1) Muslims are NOT the only terrorists out there, (2) he never mentioned Muslims, (3) he seems to be saying they employed orthodox Jews not who the owner was, and (4) he said GENOCIDE, not "terrorism" (which he in fact did not mention once).

Let's not play the jump to conclusions game here...

Har har.

Not so much as all this nonsense about Aspergers being somehow requisite for apt technical skills is just annoying.