easy to root implies easy to hijack with malware... not sure i like that possibility.
sideloading is no problem on bb10/playbook.

that is, free android apps or your own android apps. no piracy involved.

have you missed the part where most android apps will work on BB10 and Playbook?
simply only need to repackage/sign an existing android installer package into a BB package.
anyone can do it. i've done it.

we BB fans do not have to disparage anything. we're wayyy too happy :)

and i want more weather apps! NEVER enough weather apps!

and since people are SO WILLING to believe everything they read on a network, it'll be great
fun polluting a mesh with dis-information and watching them go out to get food and instead
become the food. eliminate the naive early as possible in the game to ensure better supply
of resources later on :)

wouldn't you WANT to eavesdrop on the naive morons sharing their food and ammo locations?
darwin is all about survival of the most adaptable, not the strongest/fittest :)

the shear raving implausibility of Corporations being able to easily dump liabilities with sleight of hand sales tricks makes me think it MUST be true in the USA :) :) :)

fibre optic repeaters (amplifiers) had huge latencies (relatively speaking.)

invalidating the patent is not apples only hope.
they could, heaven forbid, licence the patent for actual money.

well, didnt RIM really develop 'push' technology? :)

well, even you cooperate to the fullest to get your property/equipment/data back there are MANY MANY stories of police refusing
to return things, or when finally forced to do so, the equipment has suffered mysterious inexplicable damage.

any equipment/data confiscated by police must automatically be assumed lost.
offsite backups are wise for many reasons, this is one.

he's an honourary "chair" at the PI, but does not reside in Canada. he made one extended summer visit a couple years ago.
another extended visit got cancelled due to some health issue or something. as a visitor he would not have to worry about
"emergency" healthcare, but regular maintenance stuff he would have had to make his own arrangements.

or at least, splice the one mic you found easily... :) (damn, this foil hat is itchy)

are you *sure* no passive analog equipment is operational?... (donning foil hat...)

dame time?
THAT would improve morale :) :) :)