There are a handful of Terms of Service that are tracked by the EFF project TOSBack.

Unfortunately, only two Amazon policies are being tracked.

Oh, I agree that's a problem -- which is why I would love the ability for the user to decide which permissions to grant. The app requests them, and the user grants/denies them on a fine-grained basis.

However, Angry Birds on Android (all 3 versions) do not request access to the contact list. At least the ones I downloaded from the market. They all want internet access though, and the standard version wants GPS location.

Check out the excellent Droidwall app. It requires root of course to run iptables, but shouldn't we all have root on our phones?

To the GP, I agree android should support finer grained permissions (and each version of the OS has more perms) in addition to selecting which permissions the user wants to grant the app! (Not just "OK" to allow all the permissions the app asks for, but the user could pick and choose which perms to give it; obviously not granting some perms would cripple some apps..) Without that ability, Droidwall at least blocks internet connectivity for all apps in whitelist mode.

And you will both learn when running Droidwall that each app runs as its own user on the phone. Hence it gives you the requested GUI to allow each app access to the net (over 3G and/or wifi).

But most noscript users allow the "same domain" as the site they are visiting, so the page is usable (navigation, ajax, etc). If i.js and j.js are hosted on the same domain you are visiting (not 3rd party hosted) then noscript may not help you. Even those users that are super-strict about allowing scripts will often temporarily-allow a subdomain for the purpose of using the site. A few temp-allows between some major sites will thus lead to you being tracked across those sites.

How does remote wipe help you after someone has found your phone and already accessed the internal memory? A simple fabric Faraday cage would be sufficient to still use USB access while the phone is running.

Oh ,we all want to be Tony Stark, but the humble hero chooses someone they admire, but don't wish to be themselves, thus Uma is the chosen badass avenger.

It fails for me with: Chromium 12.0.742.112. It "loads" something to 100%, then goes back to 00% and idles there.

Very annoying you can't at least try it in other html5 capable browsers though. User agent branching fail.

Most of the "desirable" content on Amazon streaming is still pay-per-show. Prime lets you stream only the "lowest" end of the catalog for free. On the Amazon Prime about page, they link to steaming movies and TV shows. On those first pages, only Monty Python is available for free. Netflix's streaming-only plan is only $17 dollars more per year than Amazon Prime, but Netflix's catalog dwarfs Amazon's.

That said, it would be great if Amazon could offer itself as a viable competitor to Netflix. Like other's have mentioned, it seems more in the Studio's hands than anyone else's...

They got a backlash of user feedback.

Here's hoping they change back to a sane versioning scheme so add-ons won't have to be upgraded so often.

Whaa? You don't use /. Book Reviews as your exclusive guide for dead tree and ebook purchases?

I like watching changelogs, to see what holes were patched. With NoScript, the right pane shows the changes -- new attack vectors are blocked all the time. (At this point they are mostly minor, but still crazy that default browser security with respect to local and remote script invocation is nearly non-existent.)

That would be an insane amount of hops and ultra-high latency to pass packets from your car down a few streets/miles to a node on a landline somewhere.

Would be sweeter to use this network to "chat" with cars around you. Like "D-bag in the red truck, get off my ass!" or "milf in yellow sports car!", or even the intended action of real-time and local traffic information. (E.g. congestion ahead for next 2 miles, then clears after that (near exit 14))

At this point, I'm sure he is already a regular member and does not need to be honorifically admitted.

Reprogram this risk analysis computer into a Bitcoin miner and finish the remainder of the 26M BTC?

Totally, multiple logins in the same browser are all about cookies. You can launch separate FF profiles (which are separate processes) from the command line; that allows two or more "windows" with separate logins to the same sites. Try: firefox -ProfileManager

I believe there are also add-ons that help with this in a single window+process, but I doubt they have been updated to these future versions. (There is an about:config option to aid in the add-on version checking. See the previous /. story on FF version numbering for many solutions.)