Good thing it isn't intended for consumers, then. Look, I know this is Slashdot and it isn't cool to RTFA, but, really, from TFA:

Despite the convenience of over-the-air management, the GSMA says the embedded design is not meant to replace conventional SIM cards, even though this exact idea was floated when ETSI was deciding on the future of the nano-SIM in 2012.

Yes, for the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, did you even read the article? (Actually, you clearly didn't. I know, I know, that's fairly normal around here.) The alternative is licensing lyrics from the publishers--which most that I have heard of (e.g., azlyrics.com) are actually doing. I have honestly never heard of most of the unlicensed sites (top results: rapgenius.com and lyricsmania.com). The industry claims licensing is cheap, and their problem is that sites that don't license are making money from their ads to such an extent that the industry questions whether the lyrics aren't more valuable than the actual music.

If you read TFA (I know, I know...) you'd see that there are sites that are licensed to post these lyrics (presumably a "we aren't going to post them, but you can" situation, which is as close as we'll get to what you mentioned)--quite a few, in fact. The takedown notices were for the sites they determined were not licensed to do so.

The first link says that Mozilla plans to continue supporting Firefox on XP; it gives no end date, so they presumably mean indefinitely (though practically probably not much longer than a few years--for example, they supported Windows 2000 until Firefox 12 in April 2012, a bit over 2 years after its EOL; on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if they went a bit longer with XP given its larger user base). The second link says Google plans to continue Chrome support on XP into at least 2015. Neither one of these links talks about Firefox or Chrome ending support for Windows XP. In fact, both mention the exact opposite, at least for the foreseeable future, so I'm really wondering where the author of this summary got this information.

Mediacom (consistently ranked poorly in customer satisfaction) has the same here, but surely you have other Internet options. I use DSL from CenturyLink. (Yes, I know, connection speeds. But that doesn't matter when the other doesn't work, and in practice, they aren't that different.)

They did, and it's in the summary. You didn't even have to read TFA. Additionally, the headline narrows this down to Android OEMs, so that's why Apple was excluded from the discussion until the very end.

For the most part, this involves people driving a car on a public street. That is not a private act (despite what, e.g., speed camera opponents apparently want you to think). I don't see the problem, especially if drive in actual cities with real blocks, where this doesn't work as well, anyway (not that you need to drive, but I digress).

That only affects parallax in the home screen and very few other types of "motion" in the UI. It does nothing to stop the "zoom" effects that happen when you wake the device start an app, or do anything that was fine in iOS 6 but annoying now even if you don't have this medical condition because it makes you wait a second all over the place for the stupid animation to complete.

I assume he/she meant Tiger. Pretty easy to get your cats confused--I can barely even remember what the current version is called except by version number.

That's not quite the same as buying a version that doesn't work on current hardware and software when the vendor appeared to claim that it should have.

Actually, people's impressions about what they're doing with their bodies (in terms of speech production) is often not actually what is physiologically happening. Other times, it's very difficult--if not impossible--for the subject to tell what is happening, much less describe it accurately. That's why it's useful to use MRI or other techniques like they did in this study. (Trust me, I'm a linguist?)

Geometric mean is useful for comparing when the expected range or units of values is different. For example, startup time is measured in seconds, but BrowsingBench numbers are things like the unitless 6646. The arithmetic mean would fail to "normalize" these values and give disproportionate weight to some over others; the geometric mean is one way of trying to account for this.

Then you haven't heard of them all. Qwest (now Century Link, but I think the old Qwest territory is still under slightly different terms) allows servers according to their agreement (and my conversation with customer service in which I had to get a port unblocked--they're my ISP): "Service may be used to host a server, personal or commercial, as lon gas such server is used pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement applicalbe to Service and not for any malicious purposes...".

Of course, elsewhere in the agreement, it says that you need business service if you're using it for commercial purposes--but there's nothing stopping me from running small Web and mail services on my residential account for my personal use. Of course, I wouldn't really want to do much else on a typical, constrained upload-bandwidth residential ADSL account, either...

Have you considered, oh, I don't know, unchecking the box that says "Open iTunes when this iPhone is connected"?

If only there was "article" you could read that might tell you. From TFA: The same researcher that took Google's money last year for exploiting Chrome, known publicly only as 'PinkiePie' was awarded $40,000 for exploiting Chrome/Chrome OS via a Linux kernel bug, config file error and a video parsing flaw. So, it sounds like Linux. Google fixed this by patching Chrome OS, not Chrome per se.