When millions of people all of a sudden can't access their data due to some technical fault, you're going to have a bad day.

The bill has been SHELVED, not killed. A lot of bills in the past came back after being shelved and got pushed into law when the opposition to it quieted down (e.g. the Patriot Act). Keep up the opposition. Do not let them pass this bill again!

You must be knew to programming. PHP is a language, not a framework. You can use a PHP framework to apply a MVC (model/view/controller) structure or you can choose not to. It's entirely up to the programmer, not the language.

...that 65% or two-thirds don't want it.

During the Shinkansen's 45-year, nearly 7 billion-passenger history, there have been no passenger fatalities due to derailments or collisions,[13] despite frequent earthquakes and typhoons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#Safety_record

...because it has been -REDACTED-

I think they should just abstract away the hardware-specific components. There's a great deal of code that is purely unrelated to hardware components that could be be separated and updated OTA by Google.

Uhh that's what I meant haha. I messed up the order - it indeed autoscrolls while only scrolled to the bottom.

Huh? What link are you clicking?

Indeed. Here's a picture.

Logcat only autoscrolls when it's not scrolled to the very bottom of the window. Move the slider and it won't autoscroll.

The question is, have you? It's not like they have to generate entirely new code here to support Windows XP...

Uhhhh why not simply detect the version of Windows and enable/disable based on support of features required? It's not hard to do. This is just Microsoft doing what any software company does - making you upgrade so that they'll make money.

You don't see stories because you may not even know about malware hidden behind a facade. For example, Storm 8 was once sending customer phone numbers to themselves without their knowledge. Storm 8 games do a lot of interaction with their servers so it was rather trivial for them to get it past the App Store censors. What I like about android however is that it at leasts tells you what permissions it requires and if it doesn't ask for it the app will not be able to access the relevant section. A wallpaper app for example should not have camera+gps access.

Actually, I very much can refute it :) Please see Aurora Feintand Storm 8. And that's just the high profile ones. If a platform can have software written for it, you can guarantee there will be at least some malware written for it.