And just as I post that: http://imgur.com/KQsuW

Is there any action besides sitting quietly that I can do properly on the site?

Oh look, a comment interval (is it up to 4 hours yet?) masquerading as a proxy warning. Comment-free is spam-free, right?

It's all terrible, that's the thing. It has been years since I've gotten anything but frustration from trying to read beyond RSS headlines.

It's not going to stay "power adapter with password," that's just the simplest and most abstract (read: absent real hints of product plans) example they came up with for the purposes of the patent.

I predict that eventually the communications will go elsewhere, for a push-button support system like OnStar for AppleCare. Subscription fees FTW!

Last time I had a comcast tech out to fix my cable modem, I had to show them how to use ping.

I've got news for you: he knows how. He was just being lazy and padding his hours with a play-dumb work slowdown.

Funny, I try to make calls go long when I don't think the rep is being as helpful as they should be. I'll start talking slower, asking open-ended questions, and basically dragging it out and re-asking the question I called about. That's fine, 20 minutes on the phone looks much worse on their back than mine.

Which is it, did you have a lot of downtime or did you write the app entirely on your personal time and equipment? Did you use your work time to test and/or determine features?

What application's permissions would be modified to protect a persons phone from CarrierIQ with your app?

They don't even want the garbagemen to know how much they're shredding.

I'd say once Lockheed can actually implement this, you'll start seeing "now that we don't have to worry about paper records anymore" retention laws flowing through with YEAs.

Many GNOME developers like the new interface, too, from what I've read.

What a fascinating coincidence!

You are addicted to any substance that will make you feel abnormal if you stop taking it.

Uh no, addiction has specific defined features. Cannabis is as addictive as cookies.

Ah yes, an Anonymous Coward shitting in the pool by misrepresenting the topic. What a surprise.

As one of the people mentioned in the article, it's really hard to get our PR to agree to "sharing" things. He really really wanted to get a story, I promise!

Well big whoop. Tell your boss that you really really wanted to get that thing done, but it's really hard to get your brain to agree to "sharing" effort.

I don't really come to Slashdot in order to read sub-Michael Arrington "look at me" content-free posts. What's the moral of the story here, "Pixar still exists?"

TSA has had successes they just don't publicize them.

You are a bald-faced liar.

From what has been seen of Zuckerberg's ethics, I'd say it's just about even money that this was a completely intentional feature to help get his advertising buddies all that juicy demographic info they pay him so well for.

I think the OP's point was: "there should be a law."

However, the people most agitated by this are too busy reading Slashdot to make a phone call.