Domain joining would not only be good it would be critical. Partly because admins want to use GPOs to manage features. BYOD can only go so far. Who wants an expensive RDP client in order to conform to IT security policies?

Bah, meant Kindle Fire of course. Damn inability to edit posts, you would think it's 1992 not 2012.

Android has been forked. See: Amazon Kindle.

I think it's a Halloween thing, they try to scare us...

Why should place of invention matter? It does not matter for any other technologies. And the countries that established their infrastructure certainly implemented it. Also, there is not really a "whole", just a collection of subnets.

Whew! Since Islam does not have a formal church organization to match the Catholic Church, then "Islam" cannot perform acts of terrorism either. Also, Vatican not representative of all Christians.

Heck, the United States even harbored a few IRA suspects back in the day and refused extradition to the UK. Also, the ETA could be called Catholic in a sense... though both pretend to be mostly nationalist. And for all practical purposes, the Mexican drug gangs are terrorists as good as any group.

From a Nicaraguan perspective, the Contras were terrorists, from a right-wing American perspective they were "freedom fighters" financed via illegal drug and arm sales. Po-tah-to, po-tay-to.

Suck it up you big wuss.

The American part of the Internet was funded by the U.S. taxpayer, the rest of the world paid for their own thank you very much. It's not like Italy gets to dictate world radio frequencies because of Marconi either...

What do you mean "your own"? The Internet in Europe is Europe's, the Internet in Africa is Africa's etc. to the extent that it is not that of the U.S. at least. Do you think Detroit asks Germany for permission when they want to make a new car, just because Germans invented the damn thing? The United States generally only controls their particular fraction of the Internet, but they also sit with the administrations of most non-country TLDs. But the rest of the Internet could just fire up their own set of DNS root servers etc. if they really wanted to lose U.S. control. But then they would also lose U.S.-based services, and some of those are pretty keen...

Yeah, ask them which won, their beloved X.400 or the Internet's SMTP and friends...

What damn bill? Each country/network in the huge interacting mass of individual nets that constitute the Internet pay their own part, except the U.S. got much of the money thanks to hardware from Motorola, Cisco, 3Com etc. over the years. There is not a "the bill" here, it is a sharing of costs via peering agreements.

Well, the excuse trotted out for giving corporations "rights" like First Amendment protection etc. is that they consists of persons. I guess the same would hold for governments.

Yes, but what apps for which platforms? Even the "portlets" you put on SharePoint pages are called "apps" in SharePoint 2013, and they intend to have an "app store" for them.