But when I download an app which has functionality related to accessing the content of my e-mails, making phone calls or sending text messages without my intervention, it's usually a good idea to allow them to do so. Besides, you always know what the app can and cannot do before you install it. You don't even have that kind of privilege on your computer. You install new software and you just trust that the developers did everything right, even though, in practice, the software can do just about anything on your computer.

It certainly costs more than owning your own hardware, but you're paying for convenience. If you have your own hardware, the actual cost is not only of the hardware itself. You can go ahead and double that cost to have redundancy (while in EC2 you don't give a crap when a server fails. Just restart the instance... if that). When it does fail you have to send someone out to the server's location to maintain it. You also have to worry about hardware upgrades and internet link upgrades. And that's if you're in the US. I live in Brazil and my company is switching to a cloud-based provider. Since server hardware and internet links are considerably more expensive here than in the US we'll be saving a ton of money every month. Our estimate is that our monthy costs with server maintenance and internet bandwidth will go from today's $2000/month down to around $500/month. (not counting the reduction in down time we'll have). If we needed a huge infrastructure with hundreds or thousands of servers we'd probably be better off having our own stuff, but in our case (and in the case of many others too) it's worth it.

This is what really happened

> His analysis of some 30 studies showed that men and women are fairly equal overall in terms of IQ Actually, when the IQ test was first created men scored higher and the test was considered biased towards men. This was then changed so that the bias would be removed so, men and women are fairly equal because the test was designed to be that way. However, men still have a greater variance than women, even in on average they're both the same.

Just install market-enabler and you can use any paid apps you want

Happy Groundhog's Day!

What about their pirate flag? That should do it, right?

So, your an IT guy?

Looks like Google also cares a about horse privacy. That's really great! I woudn't want anyone recognizing my horse if he's caught doing something embarassing out in the street.