Unfortunately when I was there, we didn't have a chance to get out to Dachau, but did go through the Documentation Center in Nuremburg. Exact same thing. No punches pulled, just straight up "Here's what happened, why it happened, and why it should never be allowed to occur again." I was kind of surprised, and very glad to see it just laid out like that. A dark period of human history, and the best way to deal with it is to let it stand on its own.

But it all depends on the execution. As with any museum/park/etc. how you structure it sets the tone.

Great example would be German museums dealing with the events surrounding their involvement in the World Wars and the Holocaust. You go into any of those, and while they talk a lot about the Nazi Party, National Socialism, Hitler and the rest, you would be hard pressed to say that anyone would think any of it is an endorsement. Everything I saw really had a tone of: "My God, we screwed the pooch BIGTIME. Let's put this all out here, so maybe people won't let it happen again"

Granted, the atomic bomb isn't quite as clear of a moral area, since while it did kill many, many people, it also ended the war much earlier than was likely without it, and therefore all the casualties that would have entailed didn't occur. Instead of glorifying a WMD, it can help foster discussion about them, and past them.

In iOS6 all of those requests now throw up a confirmation dialog. IMEI requires use of a private API, which would keep the app out of the store.

*BZZT* Thank you for playing. The answer we were looking for was: "What is May 22, 2012?" http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/weve-acquired-motorola-mobility.html

A patent troll is usually called that because they didn't produce anything using the patent in question aside from a lawsuit. Apple here is using patents they are actively using, and believe that are being infringed by Android. Considering Motorola is going for 2.5% of sale price of iPhones for use of standards patents covered by FRAND, this is at least a more reasonable figure. It's also quite possibly a means of leveraging a cross-licensing deal so neither side winds up paying the other a dime.

Ultimately, they're doing what most sane businesses would do. If you had a design you felt was innovative enough to patent and you spent a ton of R&D on, and you saw a company producing something that you believe is infringing on your ideas, would you just sit back and let them run with it? Or do you like doing free R&D for your competition?

Which also happen to generally be items associated with how tablets looked like prior to the iPad.

Funny enough, those also line up with a bunch of other tablets, which sell rather well, and for companies Apple isn't suing. Like: The Nook, the Kindle, the Kindle Fire, etc., etc.

So write an app for that. Apps can happily download data to the device independent of the App Store, within their own filesystem space. You just can't add anything to the system media libraries. Or play it streaming from something like Plex running on a local network media computer.

iOS5 detaches the computer requirement entirely. You setup/activate without iTunes and can sync with iCloud.

Let's see...
- Darwin Streaming Server
- mDNSResponder
- ALAC
- Calendar and Contacts Server
- libdispatch / Grand Central Dispatch
- etc.

http://www.macosforge.org/ is where the more generally useful items outside of OSX wind up. FreeBSD picked up the libdispatch items and ran with it.

Sandboxing applications is a common security model on Unix systems, so why is this a bad thing on desktop apps as well? The App Store apps already had restrictions on where you could put your executable. This just codifies other accesses into a model where the developer sets up the privileges the app requires instead of leaving it at the free-for-all it is now.

I guess you've had different Google voicemail messages than I've had. Certain spots they're dead on, but all too often they're simply hilarious. Accuracy isn't a word I would tend to associate with their transcription.

Alas, it's also suitable to modify his moral code when it's convenient.

And yet he's fine with planes...

I'd be surprised if North Dakota doesn't take in more federal funds than it pays out. California, I'd be surprised if it didn't pay out more than it took in. As such, odds are, the better statement would be: why should California pay for tornado warnings for North Dakota?

Seriously, however, this is a single nation. The larger, richer states help buoy up the smaller ones, which have their own contributions back, as those smaller ones also tend to be where the food is. Putting up fences between groups that are supposed to be on the same overall team is just continuing the crap Congress is doing.