Your code would fail to detect Vista which is 6.0. The major version is greater than 5 but the minor version is not greater than 1.

BT already does this in the UK. By default, it's enabled for all customers, but you can disable it. it's called BT Fon. Basically BT customers who opt-in get to use internet through any other customer's wifi for free, other people can pay to use it otherwise.

http://www.btfon.com/

Why would allowing changing of the default apps (like the browser, email, etc) introduce malware? All apps would still have to come from the App Store, and would be subject to the same quality checks as they are now.

It has literally nothing to do with Android, and it has basically nothing to do with Java development in general. All they did was disable the browser plugin because of a critical security bug in older versions, which Android doesn't anyway, and installing the latest update will reenable it.

That's not true at all. For example:

if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 14) {
// ICS specific code here
}

Compile it with the ICS SDK. As long as you don't attempt to call code that didn't exist in older versions, it'll run just fine.

But Silverlight is only available on Microsoft Windows.

And OS X.

Reminds me of that line from Liar Liar:

Fletcher: Your honor, I object!
Judge: Why?
Fletcher: Because it's devastating to my case!
Judge: Overruled.
Fletcher: Good call!

Flash on Android isn't going away, it's just changing. You can write apps in Flash, package them as Adobe Air apps and install them on Android just fine. That's how it's worked on iOS for a long time now because of Apple's restrictions on browser plugins, so I imagine this is just their way of consolidating development efforts on both platforms.

Not only that, the UK government charges the full 20% VAT rate on ebooks, where it charges 0% on physical books.

Not true anymore. Chrome Browser for Business.

Yup, that's what I always think. I also heard once that Google were especially interested in hiring female CS graduates. Why does gender matter here? Just because it's a rare breed doesn't mean that it's always superior, or that you need to go out there and grab all you can get. Pick people based on their own personal merits.

Although it's great that more women are getting back into CS, these kinds of articles make me itch. Geek girls shouldn't be hired or coerced into taking CS because of or in spite of their gender. They should be hired because they're good at what they do, and they should be encouraged to study if they have a sincere enthusiasm for the subject. If it turns out that the best students, or the best employees are male... so be it. /female CS grad and web developer

I don't see how it'd do that. All they'd need to do is have the rootkit check that the downloaded code was signed by Sony, and then sign any code updates they push.