That's the java BROWSER PLUGIN. Different beast entirely.

Telus blocks incoming traffic to most low ports unless you pay for a business connection. And paying over $150/month for 15mb/s upload speed is highway robbery. That's not nearly fast enough for a half-dozen people to browse pictures at a decent speed or for 2 or 3 people to stream video simultaneously.

Handset manufacturers can easily add their own repositories just like many of the netbook manufacturers have been doing for years. If they want to upstream their drivers, all the better.

Ubuntu already has thousands of applications and I'm sure the vast majority of them will run fine on a modern phone.

Software Center -> Amazon Lens -> Uninstall

Feel free to pay me in cookies, I'm feeling peckish

Is your old engine susceptible to remote control security bugs that can be activated by a teenager in Russia?

Not everything is conducive to a car analogy.

For many shipping companies in the US they charge you by weight, not size, so they use very light, bulky shipping material and lots of it.

Sounds similar to Captan. My father used to install pipelines in Alberta and they used it to test for leaks. The farmers could smell that stuff from a mile away (literally). If you splashed it on your clothes, you BURN them!

Who the hell mods a 0-score post as "overrated"? And get your sarcasm meter checked, it's time for a humour top-up.

And even longer for him to remember!

That's why you have a COMPUTER which knows ALL 180k words generate the password FOR you!

I've found it to be more stable and support the Microsoft formats with less errors (for the few times I'm forced to use them). It also seems a LOT more responsive and 4.0 is supposed to be even more so. At this point there's really no reason not to.

Then show us a virus that took advantage of Java.

Shaw (my provider) doesn't seem to care what you run on your network unless they get complaints that you've attacked somebody and even then I think it takes something fairly serious for them to even contact you. Telus (the only other backbone provider available here) explicitly blocks incoming connections to most low-numbered ports and there is NOTHING you can do about it without getting a business account and the prices for those aren't even listed, you have to phone them and get a quote.

My provider is Shaw which, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't rent from anyone (they are a backbone). The problem with co-location is that A) I don't trust having my hardware in someone else's building, B) I like to mix things up and don't want to have to phone someone if I screw up a firewall rule or a network configuration and C) I still need upload speed to get my data TO that location.