How do we know this isn't the result of the e-patent wars against Android?

Microsoft and Apple likely both have "App" patents. I'm sure there is a secret cross-licensing agreement sealed with a NDA, preventing Google from continuing to support App Inventor. I base my statements on absolutely no evidence other than prevalent trends in the community and the absence of evidence itself. I am simply saying it should be considered as a possibility.

there is probably a debug ID that is hard coded to be accepted by all pumps within the model version. basing my statements on absolutely nothing i am pretty sure this is the case just because this is how the tech world works. factory testing, device failure analysis, recovering locked out units with lost/broken remotes are not necessarily, but certainly most easily and cheaply (in terms of material and man work hours), implemented by hard coded privileges "protected" only by obfuscation... the burden of proof shouldn't be on me or some black hat to say it is or isn't so. the burden is on the manufacturer to prove this to the customers and government oversight. (lol @ government oversight) p.s. malformed packets ftw as for buffer overflows. now who wants to bet the protocol is nothing more than a heavily modified ZigBee?

I was going to say Windows Presentation Foundation but then Microsoft went and backported it to XP as part of .NET 3 for XP. Microsoft was facing issues with the new technology failing to be adopted because the install base for XP at release time was much higher than what we see in TFS. (Who reads TFA?)

Android already supports an encrypted data storage API, but it is up to the individule App authors to implement it. At first only PayPal seemed to do this correctly but the other Major apps like Chase seem to do this now after public attention was drawn to their storing plain-text. You can also disable USB auto-mount (I'm wondering who your OEM is that auto-mount is enabled to begin with, are you sure this is the phones behavior?) You also aren't forced to use the visual lock screen either! You can use a pin-code or 3rd party software. Remote wipe software is also available and is a standard feature of Motorola's Blur Android. You can protect your Google account by activating two factor authentication, that way the phone gets its own unique password that can be deactivated and doesn't store the true password for Google. In the end physical access means ownage though.

Replace %windir%/system32/userinit.exe with webkit.exe and a custom config file

but i hear the XT is similar just less powerful hardware. it was easy with instructions on xda developers forums. as well as many roms ready for flashing. there is no reason to do this on your own unless its to brag that you cracked something thats already been cracked. this isn't news. its not even a discussion. why is this on the front page? this guy is using /. to tell everyone how cool and smart her is.

And yet Facebook does all of that too, but instead of being up front and honest about it, its all hidden in a massive EULA. If a fake sense of security is your comfort blanket, be my guest, go ahead a cuddle up. Only name and gender are public, so do some research before you post. Actually it is a good thing that profiles come up in Google searches. Now instead of going to page 2 or 3 of the results and finding out stuff I have no control over, most people will now be satisfied with clicking on my profile and seeing ONLY what I have chosen to share. (Other than name and gender.) As for privacy, Google+ has much finer and intuitive privacy controls than facebook, this (circles) being the main selling point over facebook. Facebook allows you to make groups and allows you to hide and show specific posts to specific friends, but does not allow you to use your groups with the security options, forcing you to look over possibly hundreds of names every-time you want to post something semi-privately. This is a bunch of FUD made for the sole purpose of making Zuckerberg money. Thank you for feeding the trolls.

Whateva! Whateva! It's my hot body I do what I want!

That situation is beyond my control at this point, but thank you very much. I feel bad for her too but my help isn't wanted, and thats ok.

Google Profiles have been around since April of 2009. I want some of what you are smoking. =) http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/history.html

excuse my language by are you F**** serious? You share everyone you have in circles on the Google Profile by default! You have to click "edit profile" then click on the lower left box, then the option to hide/show your circles will appear. Thanks to Google I just found out about my ex-girlfriend getting back with some guy that abused her. This all happened while I am "blocked" by both of them in other Google services. Luckily I have the sense to leave this information alone, but I know there are other people out there that are more than just curious.

Dont forget the correction rate for NULL as well as "extra" or incorrect words! Details follow: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=16C0gQsWCYwNwN2k9QQSSS6kzLk6cVT3_6PlcyDvDp8zl2pBqM_4K2jXwloYL&hl=en_US

This is true, however, they are learning English faster than they can learn Chinese. This is because almost anybody can learn English faster than Chinese. This is the reason why children begin communicating at an earlier age in the west than their equivalent Chinese counterparts.

I thought this was in reference to Google's Demo for Circles, that matched meta-words from your chat history with local menus via GPS and google business listings. Since the circles demo is all about a group of people searching for a restaurant to eat at! I figured automatic ordering of food for take out was their facebook-killing app...

this as: "Google and NSA Enable Data Mining Trojans Among Devices" ?