I think the interesting question is whether they put the antenna inside in the next iPhone (thus implicitly suggesting it was a mistake to put it outside in the first place) or leave it on the outside.

Watergate wasn't about "moral standards". It was about abuse of power, plain and simple.

"There isn't an antenna problem, there's an echo-chamber problem: lots of people in the press and the blogosphere are trolling for page hits, and they're much more likely to get them with a negative story than a "it works like it should" story."

That would be a plausible explanation except that the tech press has been promoting Apple products for years. Even when the problem was discovered the press felt compelled to include positive comments on the iPhone as part of their coverage of the problem. Perhaps if the press had treated the launch of this phone with the same level of coverage they use for other smartphones, Jobs' antenna bragging would have gone unnoticed.

So what is the business case for a Google researcher to be looking for vulnerabilities in Windows code other than for competitive reasons? Does Google guarantee that there are zero vulnerabilities in all of their own code? If not, why isn't he still looking at Google's code?

I think it's a terrible idea. It's like pre-planning your future investments and locking them in. What if you did that just before our latest recession? Putting your fate in a dead hand is never a good idea.

That's easy to answer. Gates doesn't have a RDF so people expect Windows not to break 3rd party apps. Apple fans will put up with anything.

I suspect a check from Knuth would be at least an order of magnitude harder to get than one from Google.

Your ethics are your own business, unless of course your actions potentially harm other people. Nobody elected you as their Internet Security Guard, so drop the elitist attitude.

Q. Is it not obvious to anyone that the Empire is as strong as it ever was?
A. The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However, Mr.
Advocate, the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two,
has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of
the Empire even now. Listen with the ears of psychohistory, and you will hear the creaking.

-from Foundation

The commercial was a sneak preview of Jobs' future business plan.

I suspect that the cost of optical equipment required to reach the level of accuracy and durability of this app, the phone, and its $2 adapter, is much less than the professional equipment opticians currently use.

My droid has a nice camera but you wouldn't expect a professional photographer to use one as his primary tool. I suspect this scenario is similar.

There are two definitions of Computer Science in common use. The first is used by CS professors and recent CS graduates. The other is used by everybody else.

"It isn't like the golden years of the 90's where you got a 100k job just for knowing Front Page"

Where the F**k was I when this was supposedly going on. I suspect that these entry level 100k jobs weren't as common as the legends say.

So, is there such a thing as a BSIT? The only degrees I read about in job ads are BSCS or BSEE.

I have to disagree. I don't see helpdesk work as being below IT work, just different jobs that require different skills.

If you want to learn work/life skills, you could do just as well working in a restaurant as a cook, busboy, or dishwasher while you're still in high school or college.

Once you graduate, do what you have to to survive, but remember that helpdesk work isn't likely to count as IT or developer experience.