It makes life considerably easier when the malicious software is considered part of the standard code base, instead of having to connect storage or download something external to the machine you simply have to run a command or two to activate the existing code. Much faster, much easier.

File integrity or heuristic monitoring software like antivirus software will likely ignore pre-installed malicious code.

Network level scanning for downloads of likely keyloggers will also not be triggered.

An S8+ with Dex system is actually very close to perfect for me, what Canonical's Unity aspired to be probably. Even the Standard Android Dex desktop "thing" is pretty close to acceptably good. It's actually only really let down by the quality of the apps, I can't find a decent resizable "sh"-ish terminal or SSH client. There's quiet a few but they all have their own little oddities. After that there is a little bit of clunkiness in the GUI because Android isn't really "desktop" orientated but it's better than some tablet UI's.

They're very, very close. If this works well they'll potentially have nailed it.

DEX is the innovation here, the phone becoming just a compute engine powerful enough sit in your bag will become a thing soon. Ubuntu knew it but never produced on the hardware front. The only reason you need a dock is to get a decent resolution to a real display. If you could do that without wires... then it becomes a game changer. Might even be enough to run a low resolution link that's acceptable enough to use for email or word type applications and bootstrap a customer base from there.

Depends, have you plugged it in yet?

No need to turn it on, someone else will do that for you.

We might be the result of theirs given everything we don't know.

It's Dockers all the way down!

http://xkcd.com/538/

"Mostly social engineering"

So, no zombie astronauts then?

Spock. I win.

Looks like my typing skills have also jumped the shark.
I actually like the set-up that the UK gTLD has... .me.uk - general use (usually personal) .net.uk - ISPs and network companies (unlike .net, use is restricted to these users) .org.uk - general use (usually for non-profit organisations) .co.uk - general use (usually commercial) .ltd.uk - limited companies .plc.uk - public limited companies .gov.uk - government (central and local) .police.uk - police forces[8] .judiciary.uk - courts (to be introduced in the near future)[7] .parliament.uk - parliamentary use (only for the UK Parliament and the Scottish Parliament) .mod.uk - Ministry of Defence and HM Forces public sites .nhs.uk - National Health Service institutions .nic.uk - network use only (Nominet UK) .sch.uk - Local Education Authorities, schools, primary and secondary education, community education .ac.uk - academic (tertiary education, further education colleges and research establishments) and learned societies ...nice and rational.
I'd have isp.uk for ISPs rather than .net.uk which I'd leave for ancillary technical uses perhaps. I despise the current suggestion to offer up the 2nd level space, $whatever.uk for sale. I'd also have a bank.uk, and library.uk and some other 2nd level domain for properly secured HTTPS, IPv6, DNS-SEC and DANE enabled (or equivalent) sites whose standards are monitored, enforced and regulated by some government body. Call it sec.uk and perhaps just move .co/ltd/plc.uk under that same mandate.

The World Wide Web has officially just jumped the shark.

I submit that Eternal September has now ended as all the Newbies will proceed to drown in an ever-rising sea of spam and phishing. I suspect gTLD expansion will do to the Web community what global warming may do to low lying coastal areas.

I'd agree actually but if you'd read my comment you'd notice that I mention skiing off anyway. My point remains however, your free market ideals will vaporize in the face of the unexpected or an inability to make an active choice.
Why yes, that's why you shop around for insurance beforehand but here comes the problem, things such as car insurance are legally mandated, house insurance contractually mandated by your mortgage company and winter sports/health insurance all but mandated by common sense. So you're compelled, this severely weakens your initial position. Two other factors then conspire, the first is that the price of insurance is primarily risk based and a tractable calculation for anyone in that market which means price variations are only spread over a small window of acceptable margins and the market will ensure a sort of herd behavior even within that spread, finally unless you opt for some sort of minimum wage there will almost always be someone in employment but who still can't then afford even the lower end of the price window. You'll also get those who elect not to buy it as well of course.
So there are going to be those who are left behind within your society one way or another and yes they drag everyone else back unless you let them fail or possibly even die but if you impose such severe cost to failure you end up with conformity in/of choice. Everyone ends up with the same things and the same standards, sounds like some other way of running an economy huh? The outcomes of free market capitalism and communism aren't as great as you think, the reason capitalism won was because it pitted people against each other at the upper end of competitive prosperity rather than the lower end of trivial advantage and everyone got distracted by the competition.
The real balance is trying to decide what level of social support and in what manner it's provided will keep us in the cozy middle of those such extremes whilst remaining affordable.

That's roughly it, for non-emergency citizen's treatment basically you either call a NHS helpline for basic advice or go to your GP (General Practitioner/local doctor) and they give you a referral to an NHS specialist or your insurance company for anything they can't handle. For non-residents the full details are...

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1086.aspx ..TL;DR...

"
Am I entitled to NHS treatment when I visit England?
When you visit England, you’ll normally have to pay for all NHS treatment unless you’re exempt from charges. ...
Emergency treatment

Regardless of how long you’re staying or your nationality, you’re entitled to free emergency NHS treatment from:
a primary care practice, such as a GP surgery
an A&E department
an NHS walk-in centre

However, unless you’re exempt from charges, you’ll have to pay NHS charges if you’re:
admitted to hospital as an in-patient (this includes high dependency units and other emergency treatment, such as operations), or
registered at an outpatient clinic
" ...the skinny version is you get a high level of patching-up, sticking back together services and/or made stable for free. If you have to be admitted for a long duration recovery or on-going treatment then you have to start paying unless your government has a prior agreement (probably all of Europe and the commonwealth, plus a few random others I'd guess).

As far as I can tell our A&E units can treat basically any injuries and issues that arise from an accident or initial infection etc..

This.
You want first hand expirience? Go and break/twist something whilst skiing in Austria, I had to ski off a glacier with a broken rib due to certain circumstance but if you have the option of forking out for a ski-do lift off you will, or worse if you need a helicopter out of there you can forget "choices". Obviously it's "choices" that got you there in the first place to an extent but as an illustration of how quickly a fit individual can instantly lose all freedom of choice via nothing but bad luck and random accidents you get the point.
The care afterwards was epic BTW, I obviously had insurance so walked into one of the private medical clinics, in one hour I'd had a technician do three x-rays, a doctor check me over and then handed over to a nurse for a quick bandage up. Back out to reception and they'd almost instantly burnt my x-rays to a CD complete with program for viewing them, written up my prescription and compiled the bill. Everyone spoke at least passable English as well.
I've had the flashing blue-light treatment back home via an NHS ambulance as well and whilst it was good and everyone was nice, competent and helpful they were no where near as efficient as the Austrians but there again they were free at the point of need and a general treatment A&E.
On balance I'll pay my (considerable) taxes all day long to have the NHS there thank you very much.

Started thinking about this and the shopping list came out a lot like one you'd need for your own top to bottom security. Would it really be other governments however? I mean as a private, highly technical individual I'd rather (in order of preference)...

1) Set up my own standalone infrastructure (DNS, IPv6, PKI, CA, eBGP?) and have that counter signed by friends, family, colleagues and the gov of any country of which I'm a citizen.
2) Rely on the infrastructure of multiple trustworthy external entities, both private business and gov.
3) Rely on a single, hopefully trustworthy infrastructure provider (where I am ATM).