I was under the impression that cell towers where far enough apart that measuring not only signal strength but also phase and timing was used to trilaterate the signal for further accuracy. If we didn't have equipment that could do this, how would laser speed guns work?

...or am I way off?

Someone patent an animation that looks like a real life action of turning a book page via a touch screen gesture...over the internet!!!!

I'm pretty sure YouTube (and any other site) doesn't HAVE to do shit about infringing materials unless a takedown is issued. That's the way it works.

The RIAA and MPAA are not in the business of producing content, they're in the business of copyright ownership. Everytime I read stories like this, I simply want to pirate more and more content, in the hopes that they'll just die. And so what? Someone else will come along and do it the right way.

Only 144 Comments? Why isn't everyone losing their shit over thisOH I see, it's not about Apple. I stand corrected. Please move to the next Apple thread and begin your irrational bashing there. Thanks!

This isn't being forced. This isn't stopping ads from loading. All this does is hilight the article content in an easy to read way, through the user's own actions.

What we might see as a result is that the content providers might not use the <article> tags (bad), or simply insert a premium-price ad image within the article text on each page, so the article is divided into sections by advertisements when Reader is used (better, still not technically standards-compliant). Initial page loads still view the ads, and reader will still load images IIRC, so AdBlock/NoScript is still a bigger problem. Nothing to see here.

Know what else is scary? Every time you went to Barnes & Noble and used your debit card, they made a record of what you bought. Scary, huh?

Also, last time you went to the grocery store and used your "Super Val-U Kard!" or whatever, they made a record of that purchase, too. This has been going on since the late 70s.

I didn't catch that story, but "Ball Lightning" is an awesome brand name for this technology once it goes into production.

My first thought was Big Brother is going to sterilize us all.

I admit that as I came to post this, I noticed that the story was tagged "ringtone" and now Slashdot collectively owes me a new keyboard.

Hey, it worked for Schick...

Cosmo, from the movie Sneakers with Robert Redford.

So what happens when Apple needs to change an API and it breaks everyone's $6000 CS5 suite and every app that was compiled with it? Do you think the first thing Apple's customers are going to do is write an angry letter to Adobe asking them to please hurry up and correct their linker so that developers and recompile their code and push a new version of their app out to the store as soon as possible?

No, they're all going to call Apple and be like "WTF MAN I DID THE UPDATE AND MY APPS ARE GONE I WANT YOU TO REFUND ME FOR MY APPZ NOW!!!!". It costs money to take all those pointless phone calls, answer all those pointless emails, and deal with all those pointless BBB filings over something that Apple has no control over because Adobe needs to update CS5 and then developers need to recompile and then upload and then Apple has to re-evaluate and re-release and everyone has to download before things are fixed.

From what I gather, this seems much less like a "don't walk across that highway or you'll die" and a little more like "You messed with us and now we're gonna kill you! Right? I bet someone out there is crazy enough to do it. Just saying someone should. You know?"

Disclaimer: I have not read the full post in context.

...while you're correct, I gotta admit that "Bronze age sky fairy" made me chuckle a little bit.

*playing right now. Obviously, those with pirated copies haven't paid, why that's the whole point...

No one is disputing that, and you're certainly correct. However, people who paid $60 for this game (who also HAVE to pay for a net connection (not sure if broadband is a requirement?) in order to play the game) cannot play, and those who pirated the game are paying right now, unrestricted. Hence, DRM is a failure of epic proportions, simply because this kind of thing happens. It's happened before, it's happening now, and it will happen again in the future. I'll never buy from Ubi, that's for sure.