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Submission + - App Store Removes Customer Reviews (macstories.net)

Submitted by Stupid Crunt
Stupid Crunt writes: From Macstories — customer reviews of apps on the iTunes App Store have vanished, with no comment from Apple. Reviews by actual purchasers, while occasionally incoherent with rage, can serve as a useful datapoint as you try to decide whether to part with $0.99 for a yet another tower defense clone. The App Store was down for maintenance last night, so it's likely a bug rather than a nefarious plot by Steve.

Comment An "Open" Cellular Network? No Thanks. (Score 1) 322

by Stupid Crunt (#30334026) Attached to: Why Open Source Phones Still Fail

Who cares if cellphone carriers want to maintain tight control of their network?

I'm very happy with the stability and predictability of the cellular network, and I have no interest in seeing it clotted up with some god-awful Bittorrent-ish thing that some kid invented so that he could avoid paying for ringtones or whatever. I would greatly prefer that my phone continues to be reliable than that the cellular networks are allowed to degenerate until they work as poorly as the internet.

Those of you with ATT service may not understand this distinction.

The Internet

Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic 560

Posted by timothy from the get-ready-for-municipal-broadband dept.
RasputinAXP writes "Verizon has changed their FiOS AUP effective yesterday, and added an interesting new clause to their specific examples that we're all familiar with: 'it is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to ... post off-topic information on message boards, chat rooms or social networking sites.' At this point, every FiOS-based Slashdot user is breaking the new AUP."
The Military

Iran's Nuclear Ambitions 1032

Posted by CmdrTaco from the something-to-think-about dept.
selven wrote in with something a bit offtopic for Slashdot, but I figured it's worth a discussion today. He writes "Following Iran's revelation regarding its secret nuclear enrichment plant, western leaders are banding together against it, saying that it violates Articles 2 and 3 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and suggesting serious sanctions against the country if it refuses to back down on its uranium enrichment program. Iran maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only and that it's not fair for the US to be criticizing them in this way while having thousands of nuclear warheads."
Java

Submission + - Java devs are wasting their time (zeroturnaround.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ZeroTurnaround released a report from a survey of 1100+ Java EE developers, showing that on average, developers spend 3-7 workweeks (40-hours each), per year, waiting for code changes to redeploy, each redeploy takes 2.5 minutes (they show data per container too), and developers redeploy 5 times per hour. Jetty is the fastest, WebSphere is the slowest. Size of apps is a likely influencer. Is this specific to Java or is building/deploying a whale in the room?

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