agreed, many company IT departments would flat out say NO. If your box gets compromised because they had not access to it to make sure it was secure, then you could compromise the whole network. Then you'd really be up a creek.

I think he missed the point of his own commentary. It is not the ipad that is costing us jobs, it's the fact that all the companies stopped manufacturing things in the US and we outsource everything. Everything from call centers, to software development, to manufacturing, and probably soon food and electricity. Everything in the US is being sold to these foreign countries too. Just look at how many 'US" companies are now foreign owned compared to how it used to be.

Wasn't there a reason that AT&T was broke up in the first place?

This is the second KNOWN possible shift. The first was the one off of Indonesia that was a 9.1 (about). So I wonder, does this mean that a quake of magnitude over 9 will cause a shift in the earths rotation. I wonder if the meteor that hit the earth that 'killed the dinosaurs' caused such a shift or larger which resulted in the climate change that changed this world forever.

I would think you need to understand at least algebra. I mean computers are dealing with variables all over the place, and while many computer programmers don't end up doing actual math, even in Web UI development there are times when I need to call Math.round() or be able to do understand simple algebra.

If you look at mac, they did it once and have made improvements but the UI has not changed much over time. Even since prior os x. People get used to the way it works and it woks fine.

MS changes each os release, people get confused and some people need retraining on it. I don't see the benefits in all their changes. It just confuses people.

no really, wasn't this one of the opening couch jokes on the simpsons?

One because we had a difference of opinion on another tax that did not pass ( I was against and he was for it). One because I don't know why, he thought I deleted him, but he deleted me.

The result. Whatever dude!

First don't friend everyone that comes along just because they said hi at a bar or wherever or you knew they from way back. People change! So friend people who are only your friends. If you have 1000 friends, they are not your friends, they are fans or acquaintances. Second, setup groups of people and put friends in a friend group, and acquaintances in a different group and family in another group. Then when you post stuff you can determine who sees what on facebook. You can also setup groups like close friends, distant friends, old friends, acquaintances, family, distant family, relatives that I never met but my mom says they know me, predators, and so on.

One problem I see is that in CA when you buy a new car they do not give you license plates, they give you a sticker on the front of your car. The cameras take pictures of the back of your cars, like the ones on the bay bridge when people run through the fastrak lanes without the fastrak going off or without a fastrak device.

So there is potential for people who get a new car to get a free bridge ride!

The second issue and they dealt with this in England was differences in license plates and the love 'borders' that people put on their plates that obscure the numbers. Thus there is potential there to loose revenue.

My guess is that the tollbooth toll taker people are way over paid. What should be a minimum wage job probably pays 100k a year or something ridiculous like that.

I will say that I am glad that they are looking at cutting expenses, maybe they can cut the hikes on the tolls or at least stop increasing them.

I think android is moving to fast. In the last year we saw 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and now 3.0. I think they need to scale back to annual releases because phone makers don't or can't keep up and then people end up upset because they are not on the latest version of the OS. Also not everyone wants to root their phone and install some cyanogenmod version or other hacked version. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with people doing that, but the average phone user wants to buy a phone that will not be out of date in 6 months. I also realize that not all android phones suffer this, but there are many that came out with 1.x last year and still have not been upgraded to 2.x and many wont see 2.3. When apps stop coding to the 1.5 version and 1.6 version as many are doing that makes a phone that is less than a year old outdated and then upsets customers. If you are on a 2 year contract then you screwed after 6 months, you will probably not be doing an android phone again and now that iphones will run on verizon this could be trouble for android.

Yes and then say good bye :)

I think the idea of locking it down would work if they would give people the upgrades on the phones to the latest and allow people to uninstall things like amazon store or some of the other crapware that they install on those phones.

Sorry, I'm just a little peaved at them as I bought one of their cliq xt's with the understanding that it would be upgraded in June 2010 and still no upgrade. Soon I think I will be able to get away from this phone and say bye bye to motorhola.

If you buy an unlimited plan, the word unlimited means there is no limit. This is saying that there is a limit. Isn't this fraud? Any laywers up for a class action lawsuit? What does this mean for video conferencing??

actually most mobile clients do not show email headers nor do they show URL's like a browsers location bar. So if the title says wells fargo and looks like wells fargo then how are they gonna know the location is actually youjustgothackedonyourmobile.com

The way a patent works is the claims in the patent need to be invalidated for the patent to be invalidated. So unless IBM is claiming exactly what you may have blogged about and you blogged about it more than a year ago, it would not be prior art. Even if you did blog exactly what they were claiming, if they changed the wording semantics a little they could get around that. Also they have made it easier to get stupid patents.

Are the phone makers any better when it comes to GPL compliance?

So does the GPL cover things like when a company like Motorola or Samsung add their custom UI on top of android? Do they release the kernel source changes too?