As others have pointed out, you missed the point of the article. To respond to your ignorance, the US is probably the best example in the current world as to why prisons as punishment doesn't work. It just doesn't.

True, but if anything Ars confirmed that the check is either bad or non-existant, given all the curse word they got through without a problem.

As the update on Ars indicates, the whole "bad words" policy is a bit unclear. I mean, they couldn't actually trigger a "your password contains a bad word" error, right? So there is no actual evidence at this point that you can get denied a password for it containing a bad word.

To be fair, other than the awesome boobs in the last photo this post barely qualifies for NSFW.

One of the largest sites for streaming content (legally) in Sweden claimed to have up to 30 seconds delay recently (relevant for closing times for phone voting).

As Eric said, fun. Implementing it to support sms (worldwide) is a greater ordeal than just adding some simple Twitter integration.

"ahead of their time"

From chart: "Estimate based on long-term average actuarial risk of all near-Earth-object collisions"

Actually 220 floor building, the 163 floor one was some other tall building.

I may be forgetful here, but as far as I remember XP was faster in most simple applications. But yes, running games and demanding software probably runs the same or faster on a decent rig in W7. Doing simple stuff (everyday stuff) however, XP might have the advantage. I truly loathe the Downloads library in W7, talk…

And it does, at least according to the article.

Doesn't work like that. PC developers have tried that for years to no avail. One of the advantages of the iPhone is that you can't just install whatever app you choose, you must download it through the appstore.

"i hacked my PSP so i can play emulators and such on it, not pirate games...."

I have no statistics to back it up with, but I don't think it's uncommon for people to jailbreak their phones for that purpose.

Didn't mean it that way either. But to claim jailbreaking is totally unrelated to piracy is naive.

"Just because it doesn't come from an AppStore or some rubbish, doesn't mean it's illegal software."

Republished from Gizmodo Australia. And given that basically no one except the US actually use Fahrenheit I'd say that's a fair assumption. http://9gag.com/gag/733687

Yeah, I can agree with you thus far. Whatever we call it, I don't like it. The actual "skins" (launchers and other gui stuff) are often god awful, and you never really know what you're getting under the hood. Got myself a Galaxy Nexus the last time, after owning a few terrible non-AOSP Android phones I'm pleased as…

And are you sure those criteria qualify them as separate operating systems? As a whole my guess is that their changes are fairly small compared to the rest of the Android source.

Sweden. Here the "main" celebration with presents and all is on the 24th. The 25th and the 26th are just days for eating leftovers and celebrating Christmas with people that maybe wasn't close enough to be with on Christmas eve.