iOS is based on OS X and they share a codebase.

So sorta?

Not in all cases. Netflix on Mac and Windows may use silverlight, but it is just H.264 streaming on the mobile platforms like iOS.

Settings > Location Services > System Services

It looks like this. http://snapplr.com/snap/kqck

On iOS 5 you can individually toggle each application and each system service's location settings.

You can globally just shut it off if you want.

You can tell iOS 5 to put a location icon in the status bar whenever something uses location services.

For example you could tell iOS to not use location for iAds, or traffic, but to go ahead and use it to set your time zone.

How about we just fix the visa laws?

Better yet, how about we fix the education system in the US so that there are actually locals that are able to do this work? It's a sad condemnation of the US school systems that with nearly 10% unemployment there are technology companies so desperate for skilled workers that this even is a suggestion.

It takes the Rand ideals and then shows how it leads to a broken down dystopia full of murderous gangs.

The problem I had with it was that it devolved into fetch quests of epic size, everything I want to do requires 900 things strewn about the city. It got boring and I quit near the end.

People should.

No it doesn't. http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iTunesForWindows.pdf

Every company that has computers at work.

To individual users I doubt they care much, but there is something to be said for honoring the license that a software author has chosen to use.

If everyone just ignores the licenses then why are there things like the GPL at all?

How does that make it an "Apple-branded" Mac computer?

Also making modifications to the Boot ROM isn't allowed.

Well, the older license still applies to what you have installed. Anyone buying OS X today will get Lion. The Lion license cleans up the silly language around labeling quite a bit and also makes provisions for virtualization.

The safety language in licenses is there specifically to stop someone from trying to run a life-support, nuclear plant safety, or avionics system using a consumer OS. It's not about what platform doctors use to search the web.

The SLA that everyone is quoting is not the current one. http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx107.pdf for the PDF of the 10.7 SLA.

I don't think that a lot of doctors are running life support systems on OS X or that pilots are reprograming their avionics systems to use it.

Plenty I'm sure. I always find it ironic though that a reader base that so resolutely defends the GPL will often advocate the violation other licenses.

Oh those Hotpoint owners are the WORST!

That violates the licensing of the OS though.