Have you tried calling the helpline:

1-800-F**CKYO (1-800-318-2596)

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/03/need-health-care-coverage-just-dial-1-800-fuckyo-to-reach-obamacares-national-hotline/

There's also story doing the rounds that if you don't already have health-insurance, then they'll put you on a list, suspend your driving license and place federal-liens against your home.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/obamacare-conspiracy-theory-lien-house-debunked

It's well known that for 18 years (at least since 1996), that Microsoft doesn't want OpenGL to offer features that DirectX doesn't have. Some companies would be required to put the "brightest graduates" on DirectX projects rather than OpenGL ones - that's from interviews and direct employment.

The sad thing is a very similar thing happened decades before with Craig Neidoff and an AT&T technical manual about the E911 phone system worth $23.900 (or $25 when ordered directly from AT&T technical catalog)

http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Hackers/us_v_craig_neidoff.article

I guess no-one told him about privacy laws, the rules governing data interception and data protection. He went into a communications room in MIT, patched up a laptop to sift out data being downloaded from a server, and then got caught. He goal was to download every paper and article ever published. He could never do this use a remote link, so used the download requests of other people to achieve this.

But in effect, he was intercepting the thoughts and ideas of other people. So the administrators would have been furious. It would have been enough to explain this to him, require him to delete the data, and them help him find a legal means of doing what he wanted to do. But instead, the prosecutor wanted do set another example of "let's hang, quarter and draw him after crushing him with a mill-wheel".

I was referring to the news article linked in the summary. The original research article is just for flavour.

And yet, we see iPhone-Android benchmark comparisons quite frequently.

So for every 100,000 apps (all apps, if I'm reading that right) on Android, there's one that is able to breach security? Just how few apps does Android have that this is a good figure? ;)

Even then, if an employer wants somebody with 30+ years experience, they want a straight-shooter, someone who has been in their industry for 30+ years.
It's not somebody who knows a bit about C++/Java/Perl/, they want the guy who designed the language.

It's happened many times before in many industries and it's still happening. Local butchers, greengrocers and ironmongers were replaced by supermarkets. Switchboard operators were replaced by electro-mechanical telephone systems, digital telephone networks, voice-over-data systems like ATM. Coal miners, steel workers, car making and shipbuilding and other manufacturing jobs have been offshored along with back-office jobs like medical transcription and paperwork processing. Elevator operators and telegram messengers were replaced by automated control and mail systems. Just about every manager used to have their own secretary. Then when E-mail came along, the managers discovered that they had to learn typing skills (to them, they felt they had just become "glorified secretaries").

Manual looms operated by four artisans in order to make one garment have been replaced by digital print looms that are large enough to weave carpets using patterns generated by Photoshop and require only one technician to supervise 15 machines. Print workers in newsagents (the guys who put boilerplate letters on drum printers and removed it again) were replaced by WYSIWYG systems overnight. Instead of the journalists writing shorthand articles and having them converted into boilerplate by the technicians, the journalists simply typed the text in. The print workers wanted that job as it seemed to closely match what they had been doing.

Ironically, a decade after the print-workers strike happened the Internet and the world-wide-web took off. If that had happened first, the print-workers could have migrated their skills painlessly to new industries. It would seem better to introduce technology to home users first, giving everyone time to make the jump.

Sold.

It's not shock therapy. It's low, continuous currents.

I dunno, for the areas where compute performance matters the most - i.e. games - I find that there's a lot of parity between the software ranges on Android and iOS, so there's a lot of reasons to compare across ecosystems. I'm an iOS owner now and I'm being swayed by the choice between a Nexus that's guaranteed to have top of the line specs and therefore a long gaming life ahead of it, or paying the same money for a rather crusty older-model iPhone.

Actually aren't all alliterative articles an amazing achievement? After all, adding additional "As" always advances adversity.

Given that the devices are operating outside their normal thermal performance envelope, probably it runs for about as long as it takes to do a few benchmarks then the device shuts down from overheating.

I was asking: what difference does it make that only Apple makes iOS devices, when those devices run the same benchmarks as anyone else?

You seem to have answered another question entirely.