You have to pay for stuff you receive?!

a nice graph showing the US is way ahead of everyone else can be found here http://www.top500.org/charts/list/36/countries

and the better news is that the citizens of the UK can go to the citizens of those countries to seek technical advice on how to go through their successfully deployed firewalls.

Parents should do the parenting, not act like children and cry to the government to do their job! they opted in for that when they had sex with no protection!

Now I am from a country where they block porn and other sites they don't like, guess what? I always found a way around it.

My ISP even provides a service where you can opt in and block more sites and just allow a white list.

Parents should learn how to be parents and take responsibility for their kids actions.

I think it's all in the name, maybe if were called something like WikiNewsNetwork and it's website was WNN.org things would've been a bit different?

sounds interesting! LTE is being tested where a I live since last year, with an expected launch 1st half of 2011... I can't wait!

Wasn't LTE supposed to give speeds up to 100Mbps? I was expecting more, 21Mbps is the max on 3G, I wasn't expecting 100Mbps but maybe something around 30-40Mbps.

They do have 44 billion in cash, and I guess win7 and the new office are doing ok... so I guess they can survive for a few more years.

I kinda feel sorry for them TBH.

Before I discovered lego I also liked these http://s3.amazonaws.com/bzzagent-bzzscapes-prod/classic-little-people-house--lrg.png from fisher price, sadly they don't make them anymore, but they were amazing! they had a whole town! with school, a main street, a fire house with a cool truck, me and my brother loved them!

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915637,00.html

on iOS the rules of getting accepted to the app store include a rule that goes something like this "if you're app advertises something and does something else it will get rejected." this practically covers things like fart apps that send text messages, or gets access to your private info.

IIRC Apple were either rejecting or frowning upon apps that just use your location for advertising.

how effective is that? I don't know, but I haven't read of any apps in the App store that do any of that stuff, and if there are a few that manage to slip threw and news gets out about them, they will get pulled and their developer will likely get banned from the App store.

Is it really legal to download music for free in Canada? there are no legal repercussions? What if you travel and take the music with you?

well the previous iPhones had a camera and the iPod Touch didn't, the new iPhone 4 has a better screen and better camera, also it's built differently using different more expensive techniques. Also I am not sure of the numbers but maybe the iPod Touch benefits more from economies of scale?

It also might be licenses they have to pay for the chips and technology?

those are most likely subsidised prices with a mandatory 18-24 month contract depending on your carrier.

a factory unlocked available in many countries but not the US iPhone with no contract costs around $500-$700 depending on which model you want. almost every other smart phone will cost around that much with no contract.

this is a conversation I had with someone owning an HTC Magic:

Now with the iPhone and Apple it's much simpler to the average Joe, I assume the phone is guaranteed to be supported for the duration of the contract, the iPhone 3g was released in july 2008 and I assume there are still many which are still under contract, true iOS4 runs like crap and many features are not available some are claimed to be due to hardware, and some reports of speed improvements with iOS4.1.

it's easier for most consumers, they will sacrifice some features that they deem unnecessary for ease of use.

I don't think many even understand what rooting is and many more don't want to go through the trouble. I think Android has this as a weak point, many vendors releasing different hardware with different OS versions, it's also makes it harder for developers.

everyone choses what's best for them at the end I guess.