I'm not the OP but commenting on the irony of a thing is not the same as complaining about it. Reading all that extra motivation and content into a remark is what creates a false controversy. "Straw man" is the logic fallacy involved.

Really? I kinda like Doves....

I would have used: a Culture of Lawyers (same as bacteria), a battery of lawyers (barracuda), a Smack of Lawyers (jelly fish), or maybe a Surfiet of Lawyers (skunks)...

my apologies to all those animals.

in all fairness, they could already use those techniques to download the software.

It's selfish of me, I know, but I completly disagree with the implied balance of the trade off. I'm a straight, married, middle aged, white male and, while it is a step in the right direction for the Black and Gay communities, my losing personal security, privacy, and the ability to move around the country without being annoyed by whichever LE professional has a chip that day was NOT an acceptable trade off. Nor were any of the other various rights that have been eroded away in the name of "Security". Nor was the laundry list of new corporate rights that not only equal, but exceed my rights as a citizen.

There are times that I really think slashdot should have a +1 or -1 Sarcasm mod. You would have gotten one from me, if so.

Why is anyone complaining about spam from Zynga games? I've blocked them using the built in tools and I only see the very rare personal post by a player concerning the game they play, now. It's been like that for me for over a month.

No, the Album name was originally "The Dark Side of the moon", it was temporarily changed to "Eclipse" when it turned out that there was another "Dark Side of the moon" that one failed, so they changed the name back.

Sorry, pretty much everything you cited are things you cannot get for free.

1. For Example: Bottled water != Fountain water - for a number of reasons, perception of purity, perception of sterility, and convienience of consumption.
2. For Example: Donation to a charity buys the user the perception of improving the world in some way, you don't get to change the world for free.

Those folks get exactly what they intended to get, and they consider the purchases proper value for the money, or else they make the purchases elsewhere, a new church, or a new chairty, for example.

Actually,you missed the point. His complaint wasn't that you couldn't check for versions, it was that there was no upgrade path for fairly recent handsets running android 1.5, since the vendors are not offering an upgrade. Where as the iPhone modles he cited go back several years and can be upgraded to the current operating system. It's a lot more of you being blind, than him being a fanboy, dudeski. But this isn't the first time that an Antifanboi has made the mistake of reading what he wanted to read when an Apple product comes up, and it's just as amusing (if not more) as the Apple fanboi blindness, IMHO.

You're very late to that party.

No, they are already evil(tm) so the terrorists wouldn't _make_ them evil.....
Pepsi, of course, would be a different thing altogether, but they are safe because Gabriel is doing tv ads for them.... LOL