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Looking at Gnome and GTK as an Example for them going extinct specifically is pretty stupid. You see declining trends for microsoft, dell and KDE as well while playing with Google Trends.

Indeed, it's not like Microsoft, KDE or Dell are declining, it is imposs

Oh, wait!

The Google Trends comparison is interesting.

Looking at Gnome and GTK as an Example for them going extinct specifically is pretty stupid. You see declining trends for microsoft, dell and KDE as well while playing with Google Trends.

Although Qt is going strong, KDE and gnome seem both to be in a downwards trend..
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=gtk%2Cqt%2Cgnome#q=gtk%2C%20qt%2C%20gnome%2C%20enlightenment%2C%20kde&cmpt=q
Ah well, the higher abstraction level that C++ offers, does make sense for a UI framework.

That, and drinking from the toilet.

I wasn't drinking, I swear! I was splashing toilet water on my face. (My french cousin told me it makes me more attractive to women...)

The problem is that PHP and web programmers are quite common. Even so, places like Facebook are looking for PHP developers and SQL engineers. Trying to find decent C programmers, especially those capable of working on embedded systems or the Linux kernel or device drivers are much harder to find. As for college, good luck getting started in the industry without a degree unless you've managed to make a name for yourself without it on some well known project.

For example:

(Facebook) https://www.facebook.com/careers/search?q=&location=menlo-park
(Google) https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/
(Apple) http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/corporate.html
(Tesla) http://tbe.taleo.net/CH07/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=TESLA&cws=1
(Cavium) http://www.cavium.com/careers.html
(Amazon Lab 126) http://www.lab126.com/careers.htm
(Yahoo) http://us.careers.yahoo.com/
(Xilinx) https://xapps9.xilinx.com/OA_HTML/RF.jsp?function_id=12325&resp_id=23350&resp_appl_id=800&security_group_id=0&lang_code=US&params=mCsTre-AToe2wnIXflPtqsZZTnVM9.N1OyhNnBv5KuqbLKT.chxR3de6DRGMEkZb&oas=suuh5UdozJuyoXGEIHQclw..
(Altera) http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH03/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=ALTERA&cws=1
(Intel) http://jobs.intel.com/
(Qualcomm) https://jobs.qualcomm.com/public/jobSearch.xhtml#messages

I am certainly not lying nor a shill. These are just off the top of my head. Many of these sites have pages of openings as well as openings for new college graduates.

Even though it may be hard, we probably need to start by reforming the US Patent Office to reduce the number of poor patents. It is not impossible. The USPTO was mostly functional 30 years ago. We just need to recognize that we have made mistakes and address them. I have enumerated what I believe to be the major mistakes in a rant at: https://plus.google.com/b/101806809558932714222/101806809558932714222/about I sent my CongressCritters a letter describing the problem. Feel free to mine it for ideas. It is available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mCG_vwfHN8xPnVyGq46BfKKyRflQtVcebuT0rwrpTG0

The biggest problems with patent reform aren't understanding how to improve quality. They are:

• * How do you reform in the face of determined opposition from the Patent Industry? Or
• * How do you strip the Patent Industry of it's enormous influence? And
• * How can we possibly survive the current flood of crappy patents.

I believe the major mistakes that create poor quality patents are:

• 1) More patents are not better than fewer patents.
• 2) Running the US Patent Office as a cost-recovery operation is a mistake.
• 3) It is a mistake to organize the US Patent Office to create economic incentives to grant poor patents.
• 4) Scaling up the Patent Office to produce more poor quality patents is a mistake.
• 5) It is a mistake to grant all patents that meet minimum standards.
• 6) It is a mistake to allow patent applicants to modify or extend their patents after submission.

Even though it may be hard, we probably need to start by reforming the US Patent Office to reduce the number of poor patents. It is not impossible. The USPTO was mostly functional 30 years ago. We just need to recognize that we have made mistakes and address them. I have enumerated what I believe to be the major mistakes in a rant at: https://plus.google.com/b/101806809558932714222/101806809558932714222/about I sent my CongressCritters a letter describing the problem. Feel free to mine it for ideas. It is available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mCG_vwfHN8xPnVyGq46BfKKyRflQtVcebuT0rwrpTG0

The biggest problems with patent reform aren't understanding how to improve quality. They are:

• * How do you reform in the face of determined opposition from the Patent Industry? Or
• * How do you strip the Patent Industry of it's enormous influence? And
• * How can we possibly survive the current flood of crappy patents.

I believe the major mistakes that create poor quality patents are:

• 1) More patents are not better than fewer patents.
• 2) Running the US Patent Office as a cost-recovery operation is a mistake.
• 3) It is a mistake to organize the US Patent Office to create economic incentives to grant poor patents.
• 4) Scaling up the Patent Office to produce more poor quality patents is a mistake.
• 5) It is a mistake to grant all patents that meet minimum standards.
• 6) It is a mistake to allow patent applicants to modify or extend their patents after submission.

So, today, I called Representative Bishop and urged him to support the Amash amendment.

Who knows? If a Utah Senator can acknowledge there is a problem, maybe there is some hope.

I made my letter available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bd9crUNvPF71alxCVKcUmVarn80aJQJmZe4FLyzKWXU Feel free to mine it for suggestions for your own action.

The gpuocelot project has been able to run CUDA in non-NVIDIA hardware for some time now, including x86 CPUs and AMD GPUs.

Too bad the CUDA compiler often segfaults on ordinary C++ libraries even when they are host-only (in which case nvcc is supposed to just forward it to GCC). Hopefully the LLVM-based compiler for OpenCL 2.0 won't be as buggy.

It doesn't look as bad as it was in 2007 (read the article, looked at the photo...).

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sidoarjo,+East+Java,+Indonesia&hl=en&ll=-7.528426,112.710285&spn=0.14091,0.264187&sll=32.576226,-86.680736&sspn=7.662306,16.907959&oq=Sidoarjo,+in&hnear=Sidoarjo,+East+Java,+Republic+of+Indonesia&t=h&z=13

The mud area is about 1 mile square (or 1.8KM guesstimating from the legend).

My 2 anecdotes are about chickens. I keep a couple of bantams, more as pets than anything else.

At a stage the one hen hatched a batch of chicks. Because the chicks can't fly or hop much yet (I've seen adult chickens fly a remarkable distance quite gracefully, and hop over obstacles 2-3 times their height with a single wing flap, much like a human would use his arms for balance when hopping over something), they can't get onto the perch in their coop for the night, so mom and chicks slept on the ground. There is however a ramp-like plank up which they could walk to reach the perch, if they where so inclined. So when they where about 3 weeks old I decided to teach them to use the ramp: I made one chick from the clutch run up the ramp (running away from my hands, which shielded it in all the directions it was not supposed to go. From there on all chicks slept on the perch at night.

The other anecdote concerns moving from a dish-tipe water bowl to a old milk jug fitted with Chick Nipples for drinking needs (click the link if you dare....). All I had to do is activate said nipples by hand so that they could see it releases water. Now they are happily drinking from this arrangement. OK, it could be argued that they peck at shiny stuff or water droplets in any case, and would learn in this manner, but still...

Now chickens are not the most intelligent animals, I would be the first to agree. But they are a LOT smarter than what people normally give them credit for.

Plus, they taste like chicken.

you could run a normal desktop inside android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.darkside.XServer and others.

you could also install debian inside android.. ubuntu has been pushing in speech of having same apps run both in desktop and phone mode though.

You shouldn't multiply with 0.25%, should you? So the number of extra deaths is 2, on top of the 5 natural ones. Still very little compared to the tsunami. Somebody elsewhere in the thread said that it represented 0.5% extra risk of cancer, leading to a whopping 0.5 extra cancer deaths.

Interesting.... Here's a lot of pics concerning Kimba, a lot of which look like a lot of cross-influencing between Osama Tezuku's (Kimba) and Disney - obviously rendered by additional artists. While I believe Disney's image of Simba is significantly different from Tezuku's image of Kimba, the blending of elements of both by other artists yields a spectrum of similarities to both.

If I were a juror, I would be very hard pressed to define a line between what does and what does not constitute an infringement - as there is such a gradual progression of similarity. One could get very persnickety on why one image violates copyright, but a very similar image does not.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=639&q=kimba+the+white+lion&oq=kimba+&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.2864.4426.0.7743.6.6.0.0.0.0.101.548.4j2.6.0....0...1ac.1.21.img.DgZDU3joRhk

Which ones would you pick if you had to make a decision?

Google supported existing open APIs instead of pulling a Microsoft and inventing their own for everything and dropping support for open APIs?

Whats next to be replaced by some Google specific protocol for Google users? SMTP?

No they didn't Go read the fucking article and do some homework. They WROTE THEIR OWN API! They are also telling developers how to write drivers for existing printers to support receiving the print jobs, instead of actually using existing protocols like IPP. https://developers.google.com/cloud-print/docs/receiveJobs https://developers.google.com/cloud-print/docs/proxyinterfaces

I wonder it Google has a long range plan to get all printers Google-Cloud-Printing enabled, and then have your device auto-selecting the closest printer (not necessarily your own) based on your geo location? I still shudder at the privacy issues.

Google supported existing open APIs instead of pulling a Microsoft and inventing their own for everything and dropping support for open APIs?

Whats next to be replaced by some Google specific protocol for Google users? SMTP?

No they didn't Go read the fucking article and do some homework. They WROTE THEIR OWN API! They are also telling developers how to write drivers for existing printers to support receiving the print jobs, instead of actually using existing protocols like IPP. https://developers.google.com/cloud-print/docs/receiveJobs https://developers.google.com/cloud-print/docs/proxyinterfaces

I wonder it Google has a long range plan to get all printers Google-Cloud-Printing enabled, and then have your device auto-selecting the closest printer (not necessarily your own) based on your geo location? I still shudder at the privacy issues.

If you have a business grade laser or print server (CUPS,LPR,SAMBA, etc) , the app will talk directly to them without any off-site conversion. No print data leaves your local network unless you choose the GCP (Google Cloud Print) option. (This app is not NSA approved ;-)

One of the things that annoys me about Android: having to print through the Cloud ... to a printer ten feet from me

Sure it would be lovely to have easy printing built into Android, but honestly I've found that PrinterShare works just fine.

This argument is getting tiring. I'm not sure what prices are in your neck of the woods, but according to the Toledo Blade on 7/22/1983 (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8_tS2Vw13FcC&dat=19800722&printsec=frontpage&hl=en) it showed tickets as going $2.75-$3.50, non-matinee pricing. In 2013 dollars, that's right around $7.50 - exactly where a ticket for a non-matinee show is in this area. Sure, in a bigger city, it might be $9 or so; I'm not going to check it for you what the price was is 1983. It's reasonably tied to inflation.

The difference is that in 1983, I couldn't wait two months and watch it in my home with better sound and picture as good (albeit smaller) for around, all for about the price of two movie tickets. And, for that price I would own the movie, and could watch it as many times as I want.

That makes the current prices a lot higher psychologically, as you are basically only paying for the ability to see the movie sooner, and it might just be an inferior movie compared to the home video version. For example, the director's cut of Cowboy's & Aliens was far superior to the theatrical release, with much more backstory and exposition. Other movies might not differ as much, but you still likely get more for your money for the home video version, including commentary, making-of, etc.

The TECH IS BETTER THAN THAT by far: RFID Ink: http://www.informationweek.com/invisible-rfid-ink-safe-for-cattle-and-p/196802844 and this: http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&q=Holographic+tatoos&oq=Holographic+tatoos&gs_l=serp.12..0i22i10i30.1987.7651.1.8892.18.16.0.2.2.0.190.1509.12j4.16.0....0...1c.1.22.serp..0.18.1528.TBOPwp10HKg&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=ed130d34d083288c&biw=1600&bih=896 (Holographic Tattoos) - that, if anything, IS how THAT part of prophecy (ala "the Number of the Beast") will be implemented... mark my words.

* What will the 'tatoo' be? A UPC SYMBOL & this is where it gets REALLY INTERESTING on that account -> http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=UPC+666

(Yes, I've worked with UPC codes in the past in industrial environs programming around them in my past circa 1999-2001 & IMMEDIATELY NOTED what those will show you... scared the hell out of me, due to its potentials...)

The UPC won't be like you see on products (incredible tracking & history/inventory power) - it'll be MORE like something you ALREADY have (your drivers license) & the "stacked" variety of them (same base design though)... your eye doesn't even HAVE to see it (not visible spectrum stuff) - but, a laser scanner can.

APK

P.S.=> Scary world folks... apk

This argument is getting tiring. I'm not sure what prices are in your neck of the woods, but according to the Toledo Blade on 7/22/1983 (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8_tS2Vw13FcC&dat=19800722&printsec=frontpage&hl=en) it showed tickets as going $2.75-$3.50, non-matinee pricing. In 2013 dollars, that's right around $7.50 - exactly where a ticket for a non-matinee show is in this area. Sure, in a bigger city, it might be $9 or so; I'm not going to check it for you what the price was is 1983. It's reasonably tied to inflation. It has not spiked above the rate of inflation. Sorry.

Oh, you want to see 3-D? That'll be extra.

Oh, you want to see XD, and sit on the leather chairs with cupholders?

Those tickets are well above $7.50. But you can't complain about seeing a $14 movie in 3-D when there is no historical comparison to what it should cost.

If you're satisfied seeing a movie in the same "environment" as you could have done in 1983, for the same price, guess what: IT CAN BE DONE.

Stop saying "poster child"!

The phrase poster child is unsustainable!

https://fiber.google.com/help/ Under Policies. It has been here since before they started laying the fiber.

"Can I run a server from my home?
Our Terms of Service prohibit running a server. However, use of applications such as multi-player gaming, video-conferencing, home security and others which may include server capabilities but are being used for legal and non-commercial purposes are acceptable and encouraged."

At some point I found something about TWC stating no servers, but I can't find it. The closest thing I can find it that they have no data-cap, but if you're using lots of data and running a server, they can and have cut people off.

Just to be clear: the title of this story should be interpreted "The combined traffic of Google's internet properties now account for 25% of all Internet traffic in North America."

Not, as I thought upon my first reading, "Google's mobile device software package, "Google Now", accounts for 25% of all Internet traffic in North America." That made me do a spit-take.

"I was afraid of the autism," says the grandmother, Margaret Mugford, 63 years old. "It was in all the papers and on TV."

And here we have an illustration of your garden-variety Daily Mail reader.

I don't get it. The study and its author(Andrew Wakefield) have been disgraced. There is a widely reported outbreak with actual deaths in the UK. And still the Daily Fail humped that hairy old chestnut in as late as early 2013. I don't read the Daily Fail but I wonder how they reported on the Swansea measles epidemic.

Meanwhile in the rest of the world we are currently discussing to exclude kids without jabs from school in order to finally exterminate this disease.

"I was afraid of the autism," says the grandmother, Margaret Mugford, 63 years old. "It was in all the papers and on TV."

And here we have an illustration of your garden-variety Daily Mail reader.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE

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https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE

https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE

https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE

https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE

https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE

https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE

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Please note that you are making assumptions on the security of US nukes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=lost+nuclear+bombs

Lots of people on this site are stating, quite authoritatively but without citation, that vitamins are good/bad for you.

Here's a quick test to tell which side is right.

Go to a good supplements store and pick up some vitamin D. It's got to be a good store, a high-end store that values reputation over profit. GNC is good, as are many others, while your supermarket is not-so-good.

In the dead of winter, take a handful of vitamin D - anywhere over 10,000 IU or so, and see if you get better. It's nigh impossible to overdose on vitamin D, but use common sense (many people take 50,000 IU vitamin D with no problem).

See if you feel better. Use this to determine whether the people posting here without citation are correct or talking through their hat.

In what way was the mini obsolete?

Don't be disingenuous. Start with the screen resolution and continue on from there.

What's this, Apple astromods in denial that ipad mini was obsolete from the day it was introduced? Got to give you this much, assholes: you are persistent.

1) Climate change has always been more used than global warming in the actual literature. A fact easily confirmed by checking the Google Ngram Viewer

2) You can thank Republican Party strategist Frank Luntz for popularizing climate change over global warming in the mass media. The Republicans got behind climate change vs global warming specifically to convince the public that it wasn't a serious issue. So your 'honesty' argument backfires: It was the Republican Party that wanted 'climate change' to be the popular term so people wouldn't take it seriously.

These raids being discussed above are to get the populace to accept them as normal, and to eventually get immediate compliance and prostration on "routine" raids in the future. Then disarming people, or shooting them, "for their own good" so that "misunderstandings" don't happen in "routine" raids in the future. These early raids will weed out those who will resist, as they ramp up eventually they'll get everyone who would resist.

People think there are sheep and wolves. Truth is there are sheep, wolves, and sheep dogs. The job of the wolf is to get the sheep to fear the sheep dog - and it's working. The sheep dog is the biggest threat to the wolf, and the wolves are systematically weeding them out.

A near miss.

Nowhere near a miss.
My thoughts on that one.

If they were honest, why are they calling it "Climate Change" now, rather than Global Warming?

That's a great question. I didn't know either, so I asked google who coined climate change and came up with "Republican strategist Frank Luntz." He didn't actually invent the term, but he gets credit for its popularization. So in fact, the term was forced upon the scientific community by a political agent with a particular agenda, which can safely be summarized for our purposes as confusing the issue.

Here is a good data set from Forbes using the Kantar global numbers.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgTa_2v15KBndFB2TFd2MmhpQXR4UlFhVTM1NE1xalE#gid=0

I like the Kantar reports themselves because they break it out by country.

Here is what we can learn from Google's FAQ

The machine you remote connect on shall accept inbound UDP traffic, and TCP 443 (HTTP/SSL) and 5222 (XMPP, aka Jabber). Google claim to secure the thing using SSL, which suggests your machine will get a x509 certificate signed by Google. But what Common Name will it have? If it is the IP or DNS name, how Google is going to avoid clashes for machines on dynamic IP?

Here is the answer for PRISM interception:

While your connection setup is mediated by Google's servers, your actual remote desktop session data are sent directly from the client to the host, except in limited circumstances where they may pass through Google relays.

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to some time between 1820 and 1840

2013-1760=253 years. several (2.5) centuries is accurate. sigh.

Yay. Same price as it was in 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. (Split adjusted)

Great investment!

https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE

On Android you can use the XPrivacy module for the Xposed framework to spoof permissions to apps - i.e. fake location data, fake phone number, fake contacts, etc.

Very nice program.

XPrivacy Android 4.0+
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320783
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=biz.bokhorst.xprivacy

Requires Xposed to be installed first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401

I'll see (how / if) this works on my U.S. Motorola Xoom

OpenACC may be higher-level(easier to use), but it still generates CUDA/OpenCL code. Your wording sounded like "OpenCL support is gone." I want to correct you on that. OpenCL is the future and wraps CUDA also. If you code for CUDA, you can only target CUDA hardware. If you code for OpenCL, you can target not only AMD, but also CUDA hardware. That was the point of the OpenCL spec in the first place. OpenCL can also transparently take advantage of the local CPU cores. OPENCL has one drawback. OpenCL does not support all types. It is highly constrained to certain kinds of types relevant to graphics/3D. There have been some kludge patches to make CUDA/OpenCL work with string types (i.e. parallel grep with CUDA), but these aren't well suited because the hardware was not intended for that and it requires a lot of moving of memory from the main motherboard memory to the graphics card memory which wastes a lot of time. String parallelizing is better done with mechanisms like OpenMP. OpenMP can support any kind of types and crunch with them and OpenMP is designed to co-exist with MPI(RPC-like many computer parallelism).

Start learning OpenCL, OpenMP, MPI, GNU & boost library parallelism. To make it easier try running golang opencl examples:
apt-get install mercurial meld
hg clone -u release https://code.google.com/p/go
cd go
cd src ./all.bash
#Put this into your ~/.bashrc:
export GOROOT=/home/youruser/yourgo
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
mkdir -p ~/goopencl
cd ~/goopencl
mkdir -p ~/goopencl/pkg
mkdir -p ~/goopencl/src
export GOPATH=/home/youruser/goopencl
go get github.com/tones111/go-opencl/cl
go get github.com/tones111/raw
cd /home/youruser/goopencl/src/github.com/tones111/go-opencl/cl/demo/rotate/
go run rotate.go -i="i.png" -o="o.png" -a=15

I like pr0n as much as the next guy but a Slashdot groupthink seems to be developing that any entity restricting porn is bad evil censorship.

That would be because it is censorship.

Shoot at these things enough and they will get equipped to shoot back. And their aim's a lot better.

An armed drone firing at an american citizen on american soil might be a PR bigger victory for the anti-drone libertarians than taking down the drone itself. Of course, I'm not sure I'd want to be the one to get precedented.

Jeremy Reimer/arstechnica caught impersonating me "Anyway the "APK" registered here is just an affectionate clone of the original. In fact I prefer him to the original." - Jeremy Reimer - March 25, 2005

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22OSY%22+and+%22affectionate+clone%22+and+%22Reimer%22&btnG=Search

& here (Windows IT Pro magazine forums):

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/internals-and-architecture/the-memory-optimization-hoax#feedbackAnchor

On his forums admitted it @ Windows IT Pro (on his forums before he was removed from them by his hosting provider to another hosting provider & started again + he was caught spamming/harassing me, making edited photos of me & more by his ISP Shaw Canada, & his hosting provider + Jay Little kicked their sites off (CrystalTech.com). Think arstechnica doesn't pull that kind of crap using sockpuppets to do it?
Knocked the SNOT outta his pal Jay Little (on Exchange Servers which he claimed to be "expert" on,lol, being unfrozen/sped up by memopttech in article former co-worker of mine Dr. Mark Russinovich wrote (whom I shot down easily w/ MS' own documentation)) + Ramdisks too! Same vs. a doctoral candidate pal of his too who posts here as "StarKruzr" on /. too whom I caught lying on who he was & he agreed w/ 99% of what I wrote. Reimer's a known troll online who can't even begin to understand this tech @ the level. He brought his "henchmen"? Got nuked like you here! Neither could "the good doctor" Mr. Russinovich & I challenged him repeatedly directly (& I've corrected HIS work too pagedefrag.exe which he thanked me for too).

Worst of all you defeat yourself attempting to "knock me" via failing illogical off-topic ad hominem attack attempts!

Above all else:

When you've got successful commercial software to YOUR NAME/CREDIT as I do from decades ago while you were still in diapers that YOU wrote YOURSELF?

Then, you can talk down to me or as a PEER, but not until then!

Lastly - Iirc, here you asked WHY I'd run my app resident all the time?? Protection of the hosts file via readonly protection applied every 1/2 second is why. Impossible to undo while it runs. Locked: Fact: I am doing FAR MORE WITH LESS (good engineering) vs. layering on MORE complexity like you do, but I do roughly the same job on spam you do protecting users (complimenting apps like yours in fact clientside), plus a hell of a lot more, your more "moving parts" solution can't even BEGIN to offer in increased speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity.

(Check SuperSpeed.com's Eric Dickman on MS Tech Ed 2000-2002 finalist placement 2 yrs. in a row hardest category "SQLServer Performance Enhancement" w/ techniques 4 caching & SSD usage that only now are being "stumbled upon" in industrial use by youngsters like you @ exchange server, terminal server, + db server level decades later)

APK

P.S.=> "Nobody rules these streets at night but me: NOBODY: The Atomic PunK" - Van Halen

A quick web search shows that Ariel Castro's home was built in 1890 and remodeled in 1950. It is likely to be sheathed in half inch thick planks of wood, 20 feet long, and nailed down every 18 inches. This women, girls when they were taken, were thin and malnourished. I doubt they would have been able to kick through. As for the windows, they were reinforced with chicken wire and thick plexiglass and guarded by barbed wire. You also have to consider the fear of reprisal if they tried and failed to escape.

Here's a video where one of the Cleveland news anchors describe the house: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CFMQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Foutfront.blogs.cnn.com%2F2013%2F05%2F30%2Fnew-video-of-ariel-castros-house-of-horrors%2F&ei=9VrpUdfRK8fi4AONvYCQBA&usg=AFQjCNHKlciQmml1R7eg6zPGOrn_8LM6Jw&sig2=cw8YO5dFw20vv2Kali6jGQ&bvm=bv.49478099,d.dmg

Their stories were posted on slashdot pretty regularly, at least weekly if I had to guess. I don't know how to search slashdot just for links in articles, but a general search brings up quite a few of them.

But you have to be rooted.

After it became illegal to root a device, Google store remove anything that interfered
with another programs ability to do what it does, firewalls, adblockers, HOSTS files, permission changers...

From the AdAway site:
AdAway is not available on Google Play! It was removed by Google due to Violation of section 4.4 of the Developer Distribution Agreement.
Please install it from F-Droid. https://code.google.com/p/ad-away/

My XOOM tablet is rooted (jailbroken / mine) I have the old "permissions" from Google play
that does change permissions of a program, as well as having a firewall and a HOSTS file installed.

Can't vouch for it as it's a very quick search but http://code.google.com/p/android-permissions/ claims to be able to do this as well.

To see what information an Android program can send, goto www.Rovio.com and read the Tos and Privacy Policy
it's a fav site of mine showing what's collected. Rovio.com is Angry Birds for one, ASTRO file manager reads
the same way both very popular programs.

But you have to be rooted.

After it became illegal to root a device, Google store remove anything that interfered
with another programs ability to do what it does, firewalls, adblockers, HOSTS files, permission changers...

From the AdAway site:
AdAway is not available on Google Play! It was removed by Google due to Violation of section 4.4 of the Developer Distribution Agreement.
Please install it from F-Droid. https://code.google.com/p/ad-away/

My XOOM tablet is rooted (jailbroken / mine) I have the old "permissions" from Google play
that does change permissions of a program, as well as having a firewall and a HOSTS file installed.

Can't vouch for it as it's a very quick search but http://code.google.com/p/android-permissions/ claims to be able to do this as well.

To see what information an Android program can send, goto www.Rovio.com and read the Tos and Privacy Policy
it's a fav site of mine showing what's collected. Rovio.com is Angry Birds for one, ASTRO file manager reads
the same way both very popular programs.

VLC for Android already exists: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon