It's a musical chairs problem. There won't be enough hiding spots to separate everyone with a gun from each other, so people WILL be approached by unknown other people.

Check out the original Definitely a mobile device.

...then I guess NoScript and AddBlock are fair game. Excellent. Advertisers should not forget that they depend on our attention, and we're not obligated to give it to them.

If they would really look for relatives, then they would not limit themselves to male DNA sources. It should be obvious to anyone that a rapist can have female relatives just as well as male ones.

You missed the fact that there IS NO VLC in the app store. And if you are happy with downloading programs from the internet, then you can stick with mplayer in the first place, which plays pretty much anything you can throw at it.

As long as it's just managers it's ok. All they seemed to do is form facebook into the privacy failure that it is today anyway.

For a Debugging Log. As the article said.

Only if you entered it after the update and within the expiration date apparently. And you probably need local admin rights. Not a big hurdle if you're sitting in front of the computer.

That's exactly it. If even one of the most prominent Java users Google is sued only for using the Java API (as basis for their own VM), then just imagine if someone else uses the API in combination with Oracle's own JVM, they'd have even less defense. And most people probably are not even able to pay for a Google-style lawyer army.

I get the feeling that they have very weird notions about what constitutes CPU Speed...

No, we don't.

GPL Software is allowed in the app store. But that won't do anything if the application owner doesn't want it there.

Sounds like Banana Republicistan

You should tell the VLC devs that. It's not apple's decision if a Developer stops distributing his app.