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sleepyKon The Jolla phone – first impressions

Hope they release their sources soon, so I can compile and try it out on my Nexus...

Hopefully being the most open mobile OS means easy compiling...

sleepyKon Disabled woman denied entry to U.S. after agent cites private medical details

Exactly what seems to be happening.

The fluff takes your mind off the twisting of laws and violations of human rights... If it's not the fluff that does the distracting, it's the threat of some looming enemy like Al Quaeda or Iran or Syria...

sleepyKon What does "HREF" stand for? (2008)

Even my high school computer science text book taught me HREF= Hypertext REFerence...

Though I didn't know the A stands for Anchor, so there's that.

sleepyKon Developer ports iOS core to non-Apple hardware

No, it's probably not possible, as iOS is coded to run on specific Apple manufactured hardware...

Even if it were possible, it would take a hellish amount of time to get working, I'm sure.

sleepyKon Secret life of phones: how one contacted 315 servers a day

This is why my Android phone is rooted and uses Xprivacy to control app permissions.

Though I still have no control over all the information Google itself leeches using it's own framework.... which is sad.